Stuttering with high end build.

[tranquil jasper]

anybody else having unexplained stutters witha 5080 and a 9800X3D? After the recent windows 11 update 2025-12 Security Update (KB5072033) (26200.7462) and updated to the latest nvidia driver 591.44 i seem to get stutters occasionally with frame gen off and on whether i disable Ray Tracing or not i still get these stutters. I dont have msi afterburner installed im aware of the weird power issue so thats off the list. Any ideas would be great heres a crash log attached. Do i not have enough vram to handle the highest settings or is there a vram leak or something?

[elfin plover]

Seems like the latest win 11 update is the problem

[tranquil jasper]

I uninstalled the exact update that i described . will update if i still have stuttering

[tranquil jasper]

It seems like the grey faces seem to also be accompanied by the stutters so im assuming its related to the windows 11 update.

[tranquil jasper]

Just played for a little bit. I had a stutter followed by a immediate grey face for a split second of a zombies face.

[tranquil jasper]

and no i feel like its the game somehow. because other games im not having these issues.

[tranquil jasper]

But wasnt this update fixed by a nvidia driver?

[elfin plover]

I don't know, I've never had a problem with stutter in the game.

[tranquil jasper]

Here is another problem. When I climb those brick chimneys on the buildings I see these graphical issues.

[dire nebula]

What kind of storage do you have? This sounds a lot like stutters due to bad storage or running out RAM

Or it could just be shader compilation

[tranquil jasper]

M.2 gen 4 and 32gb ddr5 ram 32gb

This stuttering and issues started about 1 month ago after the windows update

Rtx 5080 16gb vram

Max settings with Ray tracing

[dire nebula]

Have you been running out potentially? The game can pretty easily use about 12gb which if you have a bunch of tabs open can run out even with 32gb ram

[tranquil jasper]

Using 60%

Ram

[dire nebula]

Also there is a chance it’s just shader compilation stutter, for modern games every time a new effect loads in it’ll do a stutter but after that the shader is compiled

Updating OS and stuff can clear the shader cache, which causes the stutters to come back

[tranquil jasper]

Il reinstall the gpu driver and reinitilize shader comp

[elfin plover]

If it started after the windows update, then it's probably related to it. There are so many people who have so many problems with the latest updates in other games..

And it's also a good idea to clear the shader cache after updates

[tranquil jasper]

Good to know

[dire nebula]

Nothing seems to be off in the crash log so really weird that your having stuttering issues, I bet it’s just the windows updates like the other dude said

[tranquil jasper]

Will update in about 10 minutes. And I wish I could reinstall my old version of windows. But I can't roll back without doing a complete reinstall. But I guess I have to suffer for now. It just sucks because its constantly stuttering.

[elfin plover]

and u can also delete video.scr in Documents\dying light the beast\out\settings\ So it makes a new one

[tranquil jasper]

Il do that once I reboot my pc

Should I keep raytracing enabled on my 5080? Is it too much?

And thanks yall