JamesMS

Hey. I did end up installing it on my SSD. Fixed the problem. I don't know why pillars in particular was having issues loading from my HDD. Lots of other larger games don't have trouble but oh well. Running well now and enjoying it. Thanks.

Pillars of eternity is stuttering very often for me. It seems to be most notable when loading assets such as audio, text, etc. The video will freeze for around 1 second, while the gameplay will rush to catch up after the freeze occurs. This is the only game I am having any issue with. All other games run/load fine. Recently purchased the game off GOG. Pillars is installed on my secondary HDD that I use for games, windows is installed on an SSD. Specs are as follows: Asus laptop Intel I7 6700HQ Nvidia 960m 2gb 16gb ddr4 ram 500gb SSD, 1TB HDD So far I have tried changing video settings in game. Enabling vsync, switching fullscreen mode, etc. Tried disabling real time scanning in windows defender. Made sure the HDD isnt fragmented or having errors. Checked temps while running the game, they seem fine. One thing to note is that when the stutter occurs GPU usage drops significantly and then picks up again when the stutter finishes. Save game here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4qasswo20ktofh/265f20f214494d46ae1ac004097ba7c0%208377203%20EndlessPathsofOdNuaLevel2.savegame?dl=0 Dxdiag and output_log uploaded via forum DxDiag.txt output_log.txt