Here’s a video of my stutters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRNmn8Yd67c
In the video, I show the main problem areas that stutter the most. Then I go to Scosglen and Fractured Peaks to show how those areas exhibit almost no stuttering, so the game is able to run well sometimes, in certain areas. For me, Caldeum, Denshar (lower PVP zone), and the area outside Gea-Kul by far have the worst stuttering, where the game will stutter at consistent intervals depending on how fast I am travelling. The faster I travel, the more frequent the stuttering becomes but always remains at consistent intervals. This is 100% something to do with how the game is loading the world as I travel. Areas like Scosglen and Fractured Peaks mostly play 100% smooth with no issues. Then many other areas of the game stutter somewhere in between, where they’re not as bad as Caldeum/Denshar/Gea-Kul but also not as smooth as Scosglen and Fractured Peaks. It certainly makes for a very inconsistent and frustrating gaming experience.
I’ve had stuttering issues since way before this season but it certainly seems more common/worse in recent months. I’ve reported stuttering problems multiple times already, showing videos with RTSS’ frametime graph enabled, yet nothing ever gets acknowledged by Blizzard and nothing ever gets fixed. So I’ve quite frankly given up on it unfortunately.
The game is also horrible with mouse/USB polling rates. With the paragon menu open, and if I have 4+ boards attached, any mouse/keyboard reports as in just moving the mouse or left-click/right-clicking will cause fps drops lol… CPU and GPU utilization both go down and therefore FPS along with it. At 1000hz polling rate, this lowers my fps down to single digits. At 500hz, it still happens but only a ~20% reduction or so. I similarly will get FPS drops at 1000hz mouse polling, when in a party and moving my mouse on the social screen. At 500hz it’s again much less. The more paragon boards I attach, the worse the FPS drop becomes. With 0 boards attached, I get no FPS drops. If I attach all boards (just for testing purpose), the FPS drops literally down to like 4 fps and GPU usage reports 0% with CPU usage also dropping to around 5%. No other game I play has issues with mouse/USB polling
I’ve tried everything from re-installing the game, in-game settings, windows settings, NVCP settings, bios settings, different GPU drivers, windows 10, windows 11, installing the game on a different drive, and none of it makes a single difference.
PC Specs:
Intel 13700k
RTX 4090
32GB DDR5 7000mhz RAM
WD SN850 (pcie 4.0) 2TB nvme
WD SN750 (pcie 3.0) 2TB NVME
Windows 11 (currently - was on Windows 10 previously)