Halo Wars 2 Lag/ Freeze

After a couple tries with microsoft support I was told to FWD my issue here.

I just got Halo Wars 2 and when I launch it after ‘Press Any Key’ and it signs in the white menu buttons on the top and bottom flicker, the visual becomes super laggy, and anything I do is super slow and in the top right it keeps telling me ‘unable to connect to the Halo Wars 2 server’. Microsoft support said that it could be an issue with the server but I’m looking for advice to even make the campaign playable. I am able to load in but the game is so laggy that even the campaign is unplayable. Any advice or tips welcome.

I have looked through the forums here to adjust my graphics setting to lower (1. That shouldn’t be a fix 2. it dint even work as a hot-fix).

Edit:
my setup:
CPU: I5-7600k
GPU: gtx 1070
RAM: 16bg

  • none of my other games have any issues like this