I am getting frame drops/pauses with audio breaks every 3 seconds.

This suddenly started happening a couple days before patch 7.1. Roughly every 3 seconds my frames just suddenly drop by at least 10 frames (I do have my fps capped at 60 atm, hovering roughly at 55-58 fps minus the drops) with odd audio breaks here and there. I have tried reinstalling the game 2 times, messed with my graphic settings by lower stuff, and even checking nvidia app/control panel and system settings and continues to happen. All other games I have run wonderfully so it can't be my system itself (GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER). Me and my SO have tried everything and I am finally here cause I have no idea what to do about this issue. Dawntrail has been running wonderfully since launch and I am confused how this even started to begin with. (I was just leveling pictomancer and it started up in a random dungeon).

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Getting the same issue after 7.1. I get a frame drop with audio bugging every 4/5 mins in a duty. The game was running perfectly before the update.

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