very glad you’ve solved it… for now… truly am, but bear in mind that game is still in EA, and even tho they’ll likely manage to optimize b4 the official launch, the game will have more stuff in it, and co-op (hopefully LOL), and that might offset the optimization on low(er) spec machines…
tho, as @BowUser mentioned, high spec rigs are experiencing issues as well… like you, I’ve started having some performance issues since the breach in contrast to b4 it as was running fine, and my rig is more than high enough (you can check my specs on my profile)… so yeah it is currently worse (less optimized) since the update…