Guild Wars 2

So I’ve had GW2 for some time now (and just recently returned) and I’ve always had a problem with long loading screens lasting about 1-2 minutes when changing zones, but roughly 5-10 seconds when using waypoints which doesn’t bother me.

GW2 is the only game which I’ve played with which I’ve had this problem. My friend who just got the week pass to play has a lower spec laptop than my desktop and doesn’t have this problem at all.

I’ve already tried a google search and came accross this supposed fix (youtube) but couldn’t find the local.dat file.

Is there any other way that I can improve my loading times?

EDIT: Here are some average of the loading times: (Most of the time Lions Arch takes even longer, and still hasn’t even loaded half of the objects and NPC’s on the map.)

I’ve searched on google and here if there was anyone with a similar problem like mine but found no answers.

So my problem is that every single time I talk to a scout, listening to all of what they have to say or closing the window early causes all character, combat and NPC sounds to cancel. Even after waiting a few minutes it doesn’t return, and the only sound that comes from the game is either music or just ambient sounds in the background.

Is there any way I can fix this?