To start off, I want to say this:Don't ask if I have FH+ because I just don't. -.o
FH was being really laggy for me, and even if I turned off the Water Reflection and it still didn't stop the lag. I also heard if you turned the View Distance down it would help and it didn't. For FH to run smoothly for me, I restart my laptop and I did just that, but when I got onto FH, the login screen had no tree, rocks, or anything at all! I shrugged it off actually, and got onto the charcter screen, my chars were there, but it was all black. I then knew something HAD to be wrong and continued forward, picking a random char and logging in.
Loading screens were fines but I accessed Flourite Plains and everything was black, though General was still booming with ads and chat. I asked some friends and they asked if I had FH+ or if I did something with the files and I didn't. I changed rendering systems, nothing but black. I re-installed, the login screen was still nothing but land and water. What did I do? I messed with no files, I just restarted my laptop.