Loading the game up takes forever, loading into a server won't work!

[sander1095]

(I posted this on Reddit as well)

Hello everyone.

I've bought Rust when it was in early alpha. I enjoyed it and played it lot. I put it down for about 7 months, maybe more, and I tried playing it again today!

Loading the game takes about 10 minutes now. 7 months ago it took about 1 minute.
Loading a server takes about 20 minutes, then it crashes. Well, I was able to actually play the game the last time I played it.

I have tried putting the settings to the lowest options and I tried running the DirectX 9 version (Which does not even want to start up sometimes), and still it crashes. The main menu runs fine, I have no lag or FPS issues there.

My setup:
-Intel i5 750 @ 2.67Ghz
-Nvidia GTX 760 2GB VRAM
-4GB RAM

I know that this setup isn't optimal but I should still be able to play this game if I was able to play it months ago. I know that there have been a lot of improvements and new features added in this game but these crashes are a big issue.

I have searched the rust Directory but I can not find any error logs.

Can anyone give me some more tips on how to maybe resolve these crashes and let me play the game?