is there a way to lower the render distance or graphics or something??
Unfortunately, most of the heavy lifting in this game comes from the procedural animation and posing, and procedural world geometry count.. No amount of lighter graphics settings will save a PC from that -_-.. I have been optimizing as best I can over the course of the patches, but I am reaching the limits of optimization I am personally capable of.
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Have you tried lowering your resolution and or running in window mode and reducing the windows size to about 3/4?