As far as I’ve seen, unfortunately the stutters issue is happening to a lot of users and so far there isn’t an identified unique cause. Also a known issue is severe frame drop at airports.
Several solutions have been proposed but really there’s none that actually solves for everyone. For some people work, for some people they don’t work. Generally speaking the proposed solutions have been:
- Checking your internet connection (photogrammetry really uses a lot of bandwidth)
- Disabling AI (particularly for the frames drops at airports), real traffic, etc
- Disabling any real world traffic injectors
- Reducing TLOD and OLOD to 150 and downwards
- Checking if a mod is affecting the game by removing everything from Community
- Clearing the rolling cache (this also between changes on other settings)
In my experience, it’s a trial and error process. For example I play supersampled at 140, in my case removing supersampling and playing at 100 gives me at most a 3fps difference so it’s not something that’s causing stutters or frame drops, but other users have reported good results.
All in all, it’s almost impossible to say “try this” and having any certainty, the only certain thing is that the frame drops and stutters are there for a lot of people, under different situations and setups.
Best,
Seb