well thats dissapointing, as i spent weeks searching for answers and never came across what i did. :( honeslty surprised it didnt help? my post wasnt to imply it fixed the poor fps issues. its and improvement sure. but not the answer the world is looking for. maybe my post was misleading and i will edit that... apologies. but my fix fixes the game stuttering and freezing and running at 3 fps. it still sucks considering we have top tier gpus and should be running this game without a sweat. but it was an improvement i was able to duplicate. and im betting come the next update i can do it once again...