CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X
RAM: 16GB Viper Patriot 4 3200, running with XMP 2.0 at 3200 (2x8)
Motherboard: MSI B450M Mortar
GPU: GTX 1060 6GB
STORAGE: OS installed on Crucial MX500 250GB SSD, games are installed on Sabrent 500GB NVME SSD
OS: Windows 10, latest version all possible updates installed
So I'm really losing my mind with this game and I have no idea what to try anymore.
The problems I'm getting are heavy stutters that can happen both when walking around or during fights. A thing I've noticed is that some monsters will specifically destroy the fps turning the game into a literal Power Point presentation, killing the performance and forcing the game to run at 9-10 fps for loooong periods of time. This happens especially when against flans or against those serpent monsters who can turn you into a frog.
Another thing that's killing it for me is the fact the from time to time, completely randomly, the game will freeze fore 1-3 seconds as if it is loading something, dropping my GPU usage to almost 0 and FPS to 0 too. I don't understand why such a thing would happen even when my GPU or CPU aren't maxed out or struggling or overheating.
My rig is not the most powerful one, I know, but during gameplay my temperatures are fine and the CPU is not being taxed that much, so I really don't understand what in the world is causing these huge drops.
Has anyone been able to play this game smoothly with similar hardware to mine? Is the game just a bad port and is there nothing we can do?