Quote Originally Posted by aqualenne View Post
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I just want to echo this sentiment. I think there are several stutter issues (the most common being from iCue and controllers), but this random, inconsistent, short stutter is something I have too.

I’ve done everything the author has. A completely clean install of Windows with nothing but 14 and a keyboard and mouse can’t fix it. I’ve also tried swapping PSUs, SSDs, and memory to no avail.

My specs are these:

AMD 7800x3D
3080 Ti
32 GB 6000MHz DDR5

My sense is it’s possibly an AMD issue. I’ve seen some people with Intel report issues, but they’re usually the controller or iCue issue.

If you have this problem and have Intel, it’d be really interesting to hear about. And if you have AMD and have this specific issue (not the framerate staying low, or a regular interval stutter but just completely random full ~1s game stops) please add to it here.

I’m bilingual and live in Japan. I have a post on the Japanese forums about this too, but the more data we can get the better. I can post to my thread there as well.

It's not an AMD issue. I have an Intel 13600K that's not OCed and runs at the base Intel specs.

I have the exact same stuttering issues. There's no real reason as to why they happen. I do not own a corsair keyboard and I do not have any weird third party RGB software installed on my PC. My PC is basically pretty clean and plain for the most part.

Now I do have a Xbox Series X controller plugged in...Sadly I can't disconnect it. I do not know how to even begin to play without a controller.

If I have to disconnect my Xbox controller I may as well just quit the game at that point cuz that would be game breaking for me.

The stutters happen randomly as far as I can tell. My game is locked to 60fps and it runs at 60fps pretty much at all times, but randomly out of the blue the game will just stutter/hitch for a second or so. This can literally happen anywhere. In dungeons during trash pulls, or even when everything is dead, during bosses, or even in areas where I am pretty much completely alone the game will just hitch/stutter randomly.

I can be in unpopulated areas and I will still get the hitches/stutters. There's no real way to know for sure what's causing them as they seem to be completely random.

I have a 13600k and a Nvidia 4080 and I also have the latest driver 560.70. Something odd that I did notice was that with my old Nvidia driver the game had less stutters. That driver was 537.58. I only recently updated to the newest drivers to see if it would fix the stutter but it didn't it made it a lil worse IMO.

I could go back to the old driver, but that 537.58 driver is like from October 2023. I do not want to be stuck on a super old driver just cuz DT runs a lil better on it.

It's also worth noting that before DT was released my game (EW) ran perfectly smooth with zero performance issues. Always locked at 60 fps with zero hitches/stutters. I hope SE can fix these stutters, cuz they are super annoying. It may not be game breaking, but the hitches are very annoying when they happen especially since Endwalker played so perfectly and smooth.