All,
The issue I believe we're all facing is that the game is using the wrong video card (i.e. using the video card that's on the motherboard instead of our actual gaming video card). The solution is simple, tell Windows which video card to use. I used the instructions on this site and the game runs perfectly smooth: https://www.howtogeek.com/351522/how-to-choose-which-gpu-a-game-uses-on-windows-10/