i5 2500K @ 4.1 GHz
Sabertooth P67 (BIOS revision 3602 [latest])
GTX 670 Power Edition SLI (Driver version 314.22)
8 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 MHz
1 TB SATA III HDD
Corsair GS800 PSU
Game settings:
1920 X 1080, Everything maxed out, V-sync on (in NVCP), SMAA 2X, Motion blur on low, Tessellation on
Autoexec:
Skip intro
FPS capped at 60
Chromatic Aberration set to off
Texture cache set to 512 MB
I notice that I get stuttering when playing the single-player, especially after the first time loading. If I spin around the game freezes for a good 3-5 secs before everything starts moving again, and even then it still stutters. This is especially apparent during the dam level. There's a checkpoint before you enter the area where the chopper drops off some CELL troopers (the area below the dam), and walking outside causes severe stuttering/FPS drops. I've tried stuff like messing around with FPS caps, limiting the maximum number of pre-rendered frames, using adaptive V-sync/no V-sync/etc. and running it in fullscreen-windowed mode, but nothing seems to help. I've managed to cross out the usual suspects like an unstable OC, overheating components, RAM issues, a fragmented HDD, viruses/malware and high DPC latency spikes, so I'm not really sure what to do. Any ideas?