i dont think its an issue with people being online such as internet latency or bandwidth issues. i had this issue on an old laptop that defiently couldnt handle 1.0 at all. i also dont think its an issue with my computers hardware even the GHZ simply because i hadnt changed any settings since the update and i was running this game fine on near max settings before the update.
if it wasnt for that fact i would have to say that its possible. though now i cant even test out different solutions to fix the game since the game is on maintenance right now.
the odd thing is that i was playing on my desktop this morning after the patch, on near max settings as usual and that was running fine, no problems at all. and although i dont remember all the specs on my desktop off the top of my head, i know that it was slightly worse then my laptop thats having the issue.

i appreciate the help, i have just updated my graphics card driver in an attempt to fix the problem but i cant test it until maintenance is over