Hey Rudie,
The game does some additional loading in the background during the opening cinematic. You should be able to skip it pretty quickly, but if you have mods installed then it will be a bit longer before you can skip it with the ESC key or by clicking the mouse.
You should be able to edit the DefaultGame.ini file to disable the intro cinematic, but I can’t guarantee that this still works.
Go to: \Conan Exiles\ConanSandbox\Config
open "DefaultGame.ini and set:[/script/movieplayer.movieplayersettings]
-StartupMovies=StartupUE4
-StartupMovies=StartupNvidia
-StartupMovies=CinematicIntroV2