https://ibb.co/mtWc3Qm
This FPS graph illustrates the main focal point of my complaint with this game. The FPS trends fine across the board but there are intermittent spikes or hiccups that make the game borderline unplayable for me.
These spikes don't always happen. I've had times where the game runs fine for hours for whatever reason and other times where I can't go more than 10 minutes without it happening.
It's especially noticeable when I'm wandering around the open world map and the game's constantly loading new things in.
I'm going to argue that this is NOT a hardware issue and I'm going to illustrate why by asking you to watch this video and pay attention to the timestamps I'm going to list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubHdnVQTo0U&t=203s
1:43-1:44
3:22-3:23
I'm not going to comb through the entire video for every single incident of it happening but you get the idea of what actually is happening and that's all that matters.
This is a benchmark from what's considerably towards the top-end of hardware. This is by no means the average household PC running Division 2.
I understand that the hiccups are borderline unnoticeable in this video but keep in mind the quality of his PC and I'd argue that the problem only exacerbates itself the further down the technological ladder you go.
I can get spikes of upwards 2-3 seconds and it could be worse for people with worse hardware than I have or even lead straight to only crashing instead of freezing. It might be completely unrecoverable for some people's hardware.
This is not an issue with dated hardware or a problem that goes away with an OS update or hiding overlays or DPI scaling or running as administrator and as much as I appreciate your trying to come up with a solution or a work-around, there just isn't any.
It's been this way since release. I've come back to this game multiple times since and it's never not been an issue and it's the only reason I can't stomach playing the game for any length of time.
https://ibb.co/XtnRrKB
Took it upon myself to disable all the services in msconfig/Task Manager because someone from Ubi suggested this in another thread and this was the first benchmark I ran.
Still got multiple hiccups.