@Mark Ingram,
Sorry for the late reply. Somehow I saw the notification about the "there's nothing more we can do" response, but missed yours. As a result, I didn't bother checking back into this thread until I was notified about pekranodon's reply.
Yes, I do have another machine that I could test on. But it's more of a general purpose machine for basic web browsing, email checking, video watching, etc. It's not a semi-powerful development/gaming machine like the one I'm experiencing problems with. I'm not even sure if it has a dedicated GPU. But I'm still willing to test things out on it.
Just so I know I'm doing what is expected of me, and so I don't waste more of my time doing basically what you're going to ask me to do, but not doing it exactly the way you'd ask me to do it and then feel obligated to do it all again, can you be more specific about exactly what test I should be trying on the other machine? Do you mean I should try just drawing a single curve with the Vector Brush tool as shown in the video I recorded and see if I experience similar sluggishness? Or is there something else or something more you'd like me to test?