Telblooze Loading... Error

[Jikoli]

Most of the times I approach Telblooze , the 'Loading...' dialogue pops up (as Expected) and the game pauses momentarily. It then unpauses and the 'Loading...' dialogue persists. Soon after that, my characters become unable to move (their run animations continue, yet they can't move, regardless of if I give them new orders)

This hasn't happened to me near other cities.

I tried a fresh install, and the problem persisted.

I tried making several new games, and the problem persisted.

I have also seen the 'Loading...' dialogue linger when I am at Catun, but it eventually goes away, and my characters don't get locked up.

I wouldn't mind so much if my town weren't very close to Telblooze.
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Some seperate issues I have are:
1: the run speed icons aren't showing, but I modified my ogre.cfg to get the graphical settings I wanted, so I guess this one is my fault

2: Characters get stuck running in place when in combat. this might be because I run two squads of ten, often very close to eachother.