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No. The big stutters are intermittent and only frequent (under every 20 seconds or so) in the busy maps, with other maps like small dungeons barely stuttering at all. No unity console at all. No mods or plugins besides Special K.

Yeah @arteryx, that is the exact issue with the ~288 ms stutter appearing. I don't have the unity console enabled, however.

What driver versions are you running? I observed these issues with 417.11. I can try 418.81 which is the latest version. I can send files over if it is helpful. This is on a fresh install on a standard SATA 6GB/s SSD, RTX 2080 with slight overclock, i7-7700K @ 4.5ghz, 16GB of RAM @ 3.2ghz. I am not thermal throttled on anything and the hardware on either CPU nor GPU gets anywhere close to full utilization. I am using the exclusive fullscreen launch option also. With Special K (same guy who made DSFix for Dark Souls 1) frames go from like 30-80fps in busy maps like Queen's Berth @ 1440p to 80-100fps+ on high/ultra. None of it fixes the stuttering, but the FPS is higher. Seems confusing if you are not experiencing stutter considering how many people here and on reddit are experiencing the stuttering behavior. To make this clear, the FPS will stay at whatever it is capped at more or less (100 is what I keep it to), but occasionally there will be a frame stutter for around 300 ms. You can either use a hardware monitor or the Special K overlay to show you at what times the frame stutter occurs and for how long it persists for. The overlay has a chart also that demonstrates when the stutter occurs. Stutter appears to be more frequent when there are many actors on the screen and it "feels" like it occurs more frequently when using Fast Mode, but I can't say for sure because I haven't logged anything.

Strongly recommend downloading and installing this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/app/560130/discussions/0/2572002906843374108/ Follow the instructions including the settings in the screenshots there. This will not fix all of the issues, but you will at least get vastly better framerates.

Something may be wrong with your hardware because this game is very light on the GPU.

I also had this issue. I had to restore a previous save game and then was able to go through the area transition like normal. But the save games in which I was in that cell previously were "doomed" and stuck there permanently.

Attached is my save game. Specs: Intel 7700K @ 4.5 ghz, RTX 2080, all stable OCs that work fine on other demanding games. I do have the Special K DLLs installed but no other mods. My settings are per Kaldaien's recommendations. I have not tried resetting those because I dunno if I want to play this game at 40 FPS when I can play it at 100+ without the fixes. Other loading screens work fine. Just this save game deadends. I will try replaying the previous quest to see if it doesn't get broken again. Extremely disappointed considering that the game is less stable than it was at 1.0 and that performance fixes have not been made.