Topic: #StutterStruggle: A one-stop shop for stuttering discoveries/complaints

Are you noticing stuttering in either an old or new game and can’t figure out why it’s happening? The struggle is real in this thread. Who knows: maybe your collective insights will lead to a larger Digital Foundry investigation about your biggest gaming pain point on either PC or console (but, really, probably PC). The same goes for any news about game updates and patches that appear to effectively improve shader pre-compilation processes, resolve traversal stutter, or even falsely advertise fixes.

Whoa, Sam, are you officially part of DF now?

Is this where Alex will post all his ini files that fix all shader and stuttering issues?

@metsallica Yes! More on me joining the team here: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2025/11/welcome-to-the-ne... ... now, back to the stuttering.

Evil West on PC is absolutely horrible, the worst that I've seen so far. I tried it recently and quickly refunded it.

Can't believe Konami hasn't fixed the stutter issues with Silent Hill F. Even SH2 Remake got at least 2 big patches by now.

@Hisstori pc version is still an utter stutter disaster

Pretty sure RDR2 still has a fair bit of traversal stutter. Booted it up recently and it wasn't a very smooth high frame rate experience especially around Saint Denis. Running a 5800x3D.

@Pocky4Th3Win Need to subscribe to his personal Patreon for those goodies

Is this a place purely for venting akin to Alex each time we all discover stuttering and bad frame times? Or will it have a list of fixes and/or workarounds to solve them?

Cheers all. Ryan

@BigNoseRyan I think that workaround is to just have CD project red completely overhaul UE 5's code base 🫠

The fact that consoles had this fixed but we are only just beginning to see a possible fix from Microsoft on PC is criminal. Yes, I know PC hardware is more complex, but we've had cloud compute for so long now... If Microsoft are inevitably not going to fix Windows, reliably fixing this would keep me. Or conversely, if Valve offered something (not just to steam decks) I would create a Linux partition in a heartbeat

Not sure if it’s me. But I always seem to get a massive frame time spike whenever I just start a new life in a #Battlefield 6 game about 2 seconds into the life. It’s not traversal surely? Is it asset loading stutter?

To bring something positive, for years there WAS an annoying stutter in Forza Horizon 5 on PC in free roam and The Eliminator (basically racing in free roam). 6 months ago I posted a video about it and filed a bug report. PlayGround Games fixed the issue in the next game update. I had to channel the powers of THE Alex on this one...

Forums are fun, stutterstruggle is not

That's a great video. Good job!