So, every time i fight AI, and shooting occurs, my screen starts to lag, harder and harder and harder as the fighting prolongs, until the game just up and crashes... this DEFINITELY is not a performance issue, cause this has only occurred within the past 12 hours, whereas before i had NO lag at ALL.

edit: updated drivers, set all graphics settings to LOWEST possible, as well as reinstalling the client, still occurs...

Restarting your client often helps combat this problem. It was definitely introduced last night in a crash-patch though. xD

restarting the client only restarts the lag process.

disabiling the floating damage messages seems to have health take down the lag a bunch, although lag still occurs when scooping.

scratch that, the lag still occurs... getting massive lag when docking at playerbases and trying to transfer things and equipping them on playerbases as well.

Have you emailed us a dump file on this yet?

how does i do this