Here's the thing - i have stutters too but it's a bit weird.
First of all, my machine is not a beast. it has a gtx680 with an i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz but it manages. i was getting big stutters ( fps must have been around 10-20) here and there in Reaper's Coast and maybe once and twice in the Nameless Isle. Saved the game, exit, restart, and everything is *fine* again. I mean fine. the fps wasn't great all the time but i played 100 hours with great pleasure. then i arrived at ARX. okay, the fps was clearly lower but i played just fine until the town square with all the traders, and since it was 1AM and i got another one of those massive stutters/slow downs i saved the game and quit. NOW, whenever i load the game, i get stutters all the time, sometimes even at the main menu, with the sound being affected, too - crackling and buzzing (as if watching a video in slow motion) in several seconds intervals. it even happens when i then load earlier saves from the nameless isle, or try to start a new game (mind you, i haven't actually made a new campaign because i was discouraged since while making my original one i never got stutters. i had less than perfect fps but that's it).
why am i telling this?
because the game's been playing perfectly up until that point in Arx square and it seems as if the stutter has now *infected* everything regardless of what is on the screen. weird right? why now? the game has stopped functioning normally as if it were never okay. now i get all the symptoms described here as if it's always been like that.
Edit: yep. Reinstalled, tried to start a new campaign and everything is choppy/freezing/crash to desktop even/sound is constantly buzzing. yet, the first time around everything was smooth as butter. Wth...I'm never going to finish this game, am I?
Last edited by JBjacob; 21/10/17 02:10 PM.
