The animation slow down bug is quite peculiar, not sure if it's a setting somewhere that's affecting it. I noticed I was able to temporarily fix the issue in-game while playing around with the smoothed cut-in option turning off/on, but it would persist again, capping my FPS to 15 each time an animation played. Sync'ing the monitor doesn't seem to help. I wonder if my monitor being at a 75 FPS cap has anything to do it with being slowed down to 15 FPS, or if there's a setting somewhere that's forcefully slowing things down at specific moments.