You are missing something. The stutters happen irrespective of the settings unless you drastically lower it to the point that it looks worse than FSX. The FPS itself isn’t the issue, but rather the CPU usage spikes that seem to unpredictably occur and cause the stutters. It isn’t the sort of thing where lowering some settings remedies the issue. The FPS is actually rather fine (30s - 40s). Skip to 1:14:43 and see how the sim literally pauses as the photogrammetry loads in. Again, unless you set the settings ridiculously low (and even then it is still there), the issue occurs no matter the hardware. The fact that Asobo had to release an update which drastically reduces the refresh rate of the glass cockpit displays so they look like a slideshow just to make the glass aircraft reasonably perform says enough about how well “optimized” this sim is
