No. It looks like there is a problem with texture streaming when the game is on the HDD, but not the SSD, or the same issue exists but the SSD avoids it by loading faster.

Is there anything else different about the HDD? Is it an external drive, or have a different file system, etc?

Does the texture problem persist if you get into the game itself? Or is it just character creation where this happens?
Are the voice samples played with the game on the SSD?

Someone else ran into this texture problem on PC in character creation, though AFAIK they didn't try installing the game to a different hard drive (it was installed to the default Steam folder on their c: drive). The programmer who looked at that asked me to ask if he had disabled texture streaming in the configuration file (can improve performance, though uses more memory), but they never replied or gave any kind of update if they fixed it or not.


What are your full system specs, including graphics card? You can post, or email supportdos@larian.com.
To get system specs you can use the 'System Report' button from the 'About This Mac' Apple menu item or the 'System Information' app (in the utilities folder).