I recompiled my kernel and while i was browsing my settings i noticed i was using the wrong drivers so i disabled the incorrect ones and now the game appears to be working correctly.
it was using the open source nouveau drivers for the graphics card which appears to be the issue, i only tried this because i began noticing issues in other games.
i had the proprietary drivers installed but they were not being used at the time because the kernel was loading it's own internal driver.