Chipster: You may want to mark the topic as solved since you've stumbled upon the cause. In any event... congrats!

davkoriousg: So up until about a week or two ago, this game worked flawlaessly, except I use an Intel HD chipstet that isn't great so I need to disable anti-aliasing. Except recently, I have been having a problem that makes the game UNPLAYABLE. When I launch the game, sometimes the menu works fine, but sometimes, it goes to ~2 FPS, which is strange, especially since NOTHING HAPENS AT THE MAIN MENU. And then regardless of what happens previously, it ALWAYS lags during character creation. Then it only gets worse in the game. I've tried changing the sound settings, and reducing my resolution, and turning all video options down to min, varifying the files, and running the exe in different compatibility modes. PLEASE HELP