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But that's something i've mentioned and that i still can't quite explain, why is the stuttering tied to your current game files, why do they disappear whenever you fresh install the game (even if you immediately mod the game again, as i said, the stutters can be gone for HOURS on end), only to reappear and stay permanently? What does vfs.asi do that permanently alters your modded game saves to the point of it becoming an unplayable stuttery mess, i just don't get it. What kind? Would like to know if you did something specific. Also, i've posted my mod list above, (will repost it here anyway) do you see anything that may cause an issue?

yeah i just give up lmao i'll just send my vfs.log to see if it can help identify the issue to anybody but i think i'm just done trying to fix this, empty mod folder and just constant lag after i've tried everything i can think of might just need to have someone on a discord call with me to work this out because honestly im out of options vfstest.log

Oh i know, and i hope i didn't come off as condescending, but i was just trying to say that no matter which variable i tried to "isolate" or change, the stutters would remain, and i do feel like i've tried pretty much everything i can think of (changing ethernet cable, unplugging it, removing every single USB port, unplugging second monitor). The only thing that has ever completely and entirely removed the stutters was loading up the game without vfs.asi, and despite having actual scripts running in game, they never gave me any stutters, you can see it here, i run the game with vfs.asi at first, then without, and it's genuinely night and day Problem is i think i'm too much of a computer illiterate to be able to tell from these softwares what actually causes the stuttering, i probably wouldn't even be able to read the data properly ^^ But a phenomenon that i've brought up and that i need to bring up again is how the game runs completely smoothly no matter what mods i install, on the first few play session, but as soon as i get to that 3rd play session, or let's say i turn off my PC and come back to play the next day, THEN the stutters appear, and they never leave, no matter what i do, which makes me believe something is also being altered in my gamefiles by the mods that just gets worse over time? No clue honestly but i believe it's worth mentioning anyhow.

Correct. Already been doing this from the start, doesn't seem to be making much of a difference if any. For the frametimes, I've mentioned in the original message that they're pretty much flawless on the vanilla build of the game as can be seen here (TAA, 120FPS cap via RTSS) and here (FSR2 Quality, 120FPS cap via RTSS) And here is modded, as you can see, it's much, MUCH worse, borderline unplayable, although it "stabilizes" a bit after some play time, they still occur very frequently, night and day compared to vanilla My AMD adrenalin settings (clock speed, any option like Anti-Lag) are all default, meaning everything is turned off except for FSR I use freesync already, same thing with triple buffering. Tried optiscaler but an updated version of FSR isn't what's gonna fix my modded RDR2 stutters (and it didn't when i tried) First thing i did when i reset my PC, DDU into latest drivers I've tried every single stutter fix mod out there, none worked, same with clearing shader cache and same with emptying my mod folder, scripthook mods do not cause any stutter when playing, which means it has to be vfs.asi aka LML's file required to load mods As for every other suggestion, my PC doesn't show any signs of issue; everything's updated to the latest version, my memory test was flawless (albeit i only have one stick of DDR5 RAM currently) and same with latency tests. Something that's worth noting however, is that whenever i reinstall RDR2, no matter what mod i decide to use, the stutters are completely gone for an entire session, sometimes even 2 sessions, but whenever i load back into my PC another day, it starts stuttering again, and from that point onward it's unfixable and the only way to run the game stutter-free with mods is to uninstall/reinstall, which REALLY confuses me

Bumping this up because this is still happening to me and i know for a fact i'm not the only one having these horrible stutters. Since the initial post i've reset my PC and the stutters are still there and prevalent, no matter what stutter fix mod i'm using. I'm not sure if it has something to do with a scripthook/vfs compatibility issue, but this needs fixing, or i at least need help Here's even more recent gameplay (mod list here) with an SSD task manager graph https://streamable.com/u19dee

Brand new PC, here are the specs: 7500X3D 9070XT Silicon Power 1TB UD90 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 SSD 16GB DDR5 CL30 6000MT/s Installed RDR2, game runs butter smooth, then i start installing LML and as soon as vfs.asi enters my game folder, the stutters begin, they're every few seconds during traversal and are super annoying. Here's what i've tried so far: https://www.nexusmods.com/reddeadredemption2/mods/1502 every possible version of this mod or any alternative that exists out there, didn't fix it, only makes it "less bad" Windows 11 high performance power plan Setting the LogLevel to 0 in lml.ini Emptying vfs.log and putting the file to read only Lowering my refresh rates or graphic settings Capping my framerate to 120 (or even lower) Only having LML, and not scripthook or anything else (scripthook by itself gives me no stutters, i can run asi mods flawlessly) I have a decent SSD (more than good enough for something like RDR2 and some mods), a very strong GPU (can run the game on ultra settings easily at averages of 150FPS in St. Denis); yet, these micro stutters happen ALL the time, even with a completely empty mod folder. Unsure if relevant to this topic but search indexing is enabled on my SSD, and it's the only drive i have on this PC (so not "just move RDR2 to a separate drive" as a solution please) No custom settings or anything of the sort in AMD Adrenalin Software, everything has stock settings there. I want this to make sense, and i hope someone can help me make sense of it, because i've been looking like a degenerate all over the internet, and some people have had this fixed, but nothing seems to work for me. Example of the stutters (towards the end of the video): https://streamable.com/imtgw3