Quote Originally Posted by gilmorej View Post
Yes, it happens randomly at any time.
I can go minutes or hours between the appearance of any stuttering.
There can be 100 people around, or zero people, or even a cutscene panning across a scene with no characters visible at all.

It will just randomly stutter like it dropped two or three frames, and then go back to being normal for a random period of time.
How long are your stutters in terms of time? My game freezes for about half a second or so, but it seems like the length can vary.