Thanks for the advise, updating the drivers for my sound didn't work either.

The graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 940MX. I have the 6/27/2017 version installed now.

What makes this whole thing so weird is the game was running just fine a week ago. I know it's not server lag or a bad internet connection because the opening movie is choppy (literally playing at 0-1 FPS) and I believe that is a client side thing.