Hello, first time posting here.

After the patch yesterday, I have been constantly experiencing frame drops from around 70-80 FPS to 20-30 FPS.

By constantly, FPS drops occurs every 5 seconds and then goes back up again. I've tried simulating this in various maps such as Housing maps (i.e., Mist) with no other players in the vicinity; Idyllshire and Rhalgr's Reach.

Said FPS drops occurs in all 3 instances. I'm checking the FPS via the "System Configuration". It gets way worse during hunts/big FATEs since the drops becomes from 40-50 FPS to 8-15 FPS.

As mentioned, this has never occurred prior to Patch 4.01. Current System Settings has been toggled to Standard (Laptop). Even tried configuring various options to OFF, or LOW.

I also tried using both DX11 and DX9 if it is the issue, but it is still the same.

I hope someone can help on this. Thank you in advance!

Hardware are:

Intel Core i7-4710HQ @ 2.50GHz (8 CPUs)
Nvidia GeForce GTX 870M
16GB RAM