S'okay. The other day, I was playing and everything was hunky-dory. My settings were at their usual mid-grade to avoid mountain crashes but still look beautiful. Anywhooooooo, I took a break and watched Penny Dreadful on a third party streamer (damn you comcast...) projectfreetv.com to be exact. It worked well enough, hooked my laptop to my TV via the HDMI cord as per usual (done this a thousand times), and then when the show was over I retreated back into PoTM. Well, since that experience, I am noticing crazy laggy frame rates. It's nearly impossible to dungeon, and spikes in combat. Sometimes I'll be walking and it just kind of looks like the legs are switching places and movement is "implied". Running is out of the question, and moving my camera has resulted in unruly and unpredictable frames.
I can't figure out what happened. I have tried changing all the settings, I have checked to see if I have a virus running someplace, I have tried to minimize the programs running in task manager (embarrassed to say, I am unfamiliar with what's supposed to be there.)
The system is a 2014 HP with Windows 8.1
Derp. Please advise.