Load Times & Texture Rendering Since 0.3.0

Not sure if other people have experienced it, but I've been having the following issues:

1. Game takes about 30-60 seconds to start, when it previously started immediately.

2. Game fails to render textures properly and I have to reload textures by changing the graphics settings, then changing them back.

Was not an issue prior to 0.3.0 but continues to be an issue.