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    Originally Posted by dagrommit Go to original post
    By default, Windows manages the pagefile automatically, so increasing the size should make no difference. Though I'm interested in what you set it to.

    Similarly, running as an administrator should not be necessary given that it wasn't for the previous 18 months before this started happening.

    I couldn't say why it worked. I only know that it did.

    I set the pagefile to 10000 (the windows auto set was like 4630 or something).

    And I don't think it was necessarily that running it as administrator was the key, but turning off full screen optimization.

    I can only guess that maybe there's some kind of memory leak or something that this corrected or mitigated. I went through a bunch of other troubleshooting solutions to no effect: Update drivers, verified files for Division 2, switching from Dx11 to Dx12 and back, and countless fiddling with Nvidia settings and game graphic settings. Nothing worked until those last two.
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    Yep, I have the same issue. And I can swear it started right after the transition to Ubisoft Connect. But, as always, Ubisoft doesn't see any responsibility, so it has to be an issue on users end. Like, we all have changed our hard- and software recently, am I right!?
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    Originally Posted by Sircowdog1 Go to original post
    I couldn't say why it worked. I only know that it did.

    I set the pagefile to 10000 (the windows auto set was like 4630 or something).

    And I don't think it was necessarily that running it as administrator was the key, but turning off full screen optimization.

    I can only guess that maybe there's some kind of memory leak or something that this corrected or mitigated. I went through a bunch of other troubleshooting solutions to no effect: Update drivers, verified files for Division 2, switching from Dx11 to Dx12 and back, and countless fiddling with Nvidia settings and game graphic settings. Nothing worked until those last two.
    A "solution" that was posted a year ago is unlikely to be *the* solution for a problem that started occurring a few weeks ago. Having said that, I tried these changes and it made no difference:
    - set fixed pagefile size to 16GB
    - ran as administrator (warning - this is generally a BAD idea)
    - switched off threaded optimization in nvidia drivers (already running latest - 460.89)
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    Originally Posted by dagrommit Go to original post
    A "solution" that was posted a year ago is unlikely to be *the* solution for a problem that started occurring a few weeks ago. Having said that, I tried these changes and it made no difference:
    - set fixed pagefile size to 16GB
    - ran as administrator (warning - this is generally a BAD idea)
    - switched off threaded optimization in nvidia drivers (already running latest - 460.89)
    Did you try the full screen optimization thing?

    This is what I'm set to currently.

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    Originally Posted by Sircowdog1 Go to original post
    Did you try the full screen optimization thing?

    This is what I'm set to currently.


    No, because borderless fullscreen is needed to get the best out of G-Sync, and it wasn't necessary for the last 18 months. I'll also note that this has affected people with both nvidia and AMD cards, so it's not hardware specific.
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    Originally Posted by dagrommit Go to original post
    No, because borderless fullscreen is needed to get the best out of G-Sync, and it wasn't necessary for the last 18 months. I'll also note that this has affected people with both nvidia and AMD cards, so it's not hardware specific.
    Oh well. Just sharing what seemed to work for me. Before this setting change I was getting the exact stuttering issue, and even complete crashes, that other people were describing. I'd rather have smoother FPS without Gsync than stuttering play with it.
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    Originally Posted by Sircowdog1 Go to original post
    Oh well. Just sharing what seemed to work for me. Before this setting change I was getting the exact stuttering issue, and even complete crashes, that other people were describing. I'd rather have smoother FPS without Gsync than stuttering play with it.
    You misunderstand what people are experiencing. The game runs as smoothly as it did before, with a nice high framerate. The sudden drops in framerate occur at unpredictable intervals for a second before returning to normal. They can occur anywhere from a few minutes to tens of minutes apart, with no apparent common game related trigger (e.g. level up, user join, map change) or hardware/software combination.
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    Originally Posted by dagrommit Go to original post
    You misunderstand what people are experiencing. The game runs as smoothly as it did before, with a nice high framerate. The sudden drops in framerate occur at unpredictable intervals for a second before returning to normal. They can occur anywhere from a few minutes to tens of minutes apart, with no apparent common game related trigger (e.g. level up, user join, map change) or hardware/software combination.
    i have this exact thing here, game used to run butter smooth, its only recently i have had these stutters.
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    Originally Posted by dagrommit Go to original post
    You misunderstand what people are experiencing. The game runs as smoothly as it did before, with a nice high framerate. The sudden drops in framerate occur at unpredictable intervals for a second before returning to normal. They can occur anywhere from a few minutes to tens of minutes apart, with no apparent common game related trigger (e.g. level up, user join, map change) or hardware/software combination.
    Maybe so.


    It does sound similar, but not exactly the same as my issue. It sounds like it could be the CPU issue where it occasionally spikes. Although maybe it could be something to do with the way the client loads certain parts of the game. It's definitely an irritation to troubleshoot.
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    This is why consoles can be superior.....



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