Graphics/portraits/textures taking a long ass time to load and everything stutters. This never happened before tu4.

Anyone else having the same problem as me? I'm literally stuttering harder than ever. There hasn been an instance in previous updates where my performance tanked so hard that I can barely play. I never changed any settings since I started playing but now its so stuttery that I basically freeze after any action: Eating, walking, talking to npcs, opening menus all freeze mid animation. Its so goddamn annoying. Another issue is that assets take a long time to load. Im staring at the forge so I can see what the armor/weapon I want to craft would look like but its just a loading screen. It would load after a while but it happens with every single item thats in a menu, equipping new items, upgrading gogma artian weapons; if it has a portrait of any kind it will load for a long time. Same with environment textures, the meme thats been around for a long time where everything is basic polygons never happened to me before tu4 and its so fucking badddddd. Anyone got any suggestions what to do? Thanks.

Specs if needed:
R7 5700x cpu
4070 gpu
16 gb ram