As you said, the problem is mainly caused by the high amount of calculations. In particular, settings which put more strain on your graphics card might not need to be lowered, and you can hover over the settings in game for an explanation of that, in fact. Now I mind you that if you put your in game settings to relatively low and adjust the majority of these settings, you’ll see a very nice increase in performance and a decrease in the problems you’re experiencing. Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimization: On Texture Filtering - Quality: High Performance If you want a hard solve this is totally worth it. So for the record, the drawback of syncing your frames to your refresh rate will be that in those high load times you will see a very slight but bearable input delay. The issue is related to framerate and is solved by syncing max frame rate with your monitor’s refresh rate. Max Foreground FPS - (Change to match your monitor’s max Hz) Preferred Refresh Rate - (Change to match your monitor’s max Hz) Max Frame Rate - (Change to match your monitor’s max Hz) Vertical Sync - Use 3D application settings Texture Filtering -Trilinear optimization - On In your graphics card settings, navigate to where your specific app settings are. I completely solved this issue by doing the following: Just a quick update if anyone is having intermittent freezing issues.

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