I have to wonder if DiasFlacOg and gilmorej are having a slightly different issue than aqualenne and I. We seem to be having complete freezes for half a second to a second, whereas you guys seem to be having a much smaller stutter. Maybe it's the same fundamental issue, which seems to be something up with 14 that doesn't like background processes that it didn't have issues with before, but aqualenne and I are experiencing a different conflict and therefore longer stutters? Intel, AMD and Nvidia are all presented in this thread, though, so maybe that rules out the issue being specific to a certain brand of hardware.