Alright, I've played this game for years but have never used the forums, so hello i guess?

Onto the meat of the problem. I get frame hitching/stuttering randomly when playing the game.

What ive done to try and resolve the issue:
1: reinstalled the game
2: reinstalled my gpu driver after using DDU in safemode
3: turned off my gpu, cpu, and ram OC.
4: ran the game completely vanilla.
5: played in both full screen and windowed
6: tried every single preset graphics setting, including setting everything to the lowest possible

Some info that may be helpful: it seems to only happen on a single character. Could the character data folder cause this issue? The character data folder was transferred from my old computer when i built this new one a month ago.

This issue is extremely frustrating and is a huge issue for me, especially in DRU prog.

any potential help is greatly appreciated.