Oh the lag! Yes, it has become the 'new thing' with my game, and I don't like it. I never had that particular problem until I installed those two hot fixes. The only way to get rid of it is to save the game a couple times, leave the game, delete the localthumcache then reload the game. That is the only way I have found to get rid of it. Going into build mode began to be a lag-fest right after the update but nothing that couldn't be resolved by saving the game after going back into live mode. Now it is happening as soon as I load a save file to start playing. And as far as it being your PC's fault? Not true. The game lags on my gaming laptop and on my gaming desktop that has a very expensive new graphics card I put in it a couple months ago. Something hinky going on within the code causing drops in the frame rate is my guess. And I am going to try a mod for it tonight to see if that will help.