Eh my computer tech is a decade old, top of the line when I built it because I said I don't want to fuck with expensive new shit for years down the line, so I think this may be a case of it simply hitting the hard wall of performance for what the hardware is capable of. I'll probably fuck with the settings more a week or two down the line to see if it's a software thing that gets patched by the devs or if it's a hardware thing.

Which funny enough now that I think of it, it can run Wukong plenty fine enough, so it must be the software