Extreme Stutter and FPS drop on PC

What's your CPU usage while playing the game?

What Windows version are you running? The game runs much better on Windows 8.1 than Windows 7.

Sorry about that guys. I am running windows 7 and I will never be switching to windows 8. I hated it with a passion, too fonfusing and its so hard to change settings and you have to literally use the search bar for everything. I am running a 4690k that I haven't overclocked yet but will eventually be overclocking to 4.5Gz right now it is at 3.5

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@digidoggie18 wrote:

Sorry about that guys. I am running windows 7 and I will never be switching to windows 8. I hated it with a passion, too fonfusing and its so hard to change settings and you have to literally use the search bar for everything. I am running a 4690k that I haven't overclocked yet but will eventually be overclocking to 4.5Gz right now it is at 3.5

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I have the same CPU, not overclocked, and I have no issues.

As I asked before, what is your CPU usage? Does it go all the way up to 100%?

I've seen a major bug with people running Kepler and Maxwell Gpu's recently, of which I was a victim as well.

Go into Origin, and disable the in-game overlay. See if this helps. For myself and others this caused a major stall/stutter every 15-30 seconds or so. I encountered this in numerous games until disabling the overlay.

If this has no effect, try running the game with absolutely no OSD, no fraps, no afterburner, nothing monitoring on-screen. The bug is related to this.

I get 1 or 2 severe FPS drops in games as well. My specs:
i7 4790k
R9 290 watercooled and overclocked(not throttling, already checked).
Asus Hero VII

The motherboard is the same and that is it. I assume it is just a game bug, but I would not put it past the motherboard we share. I am sure you are aware of the instability and quirks of this motherboard. I recently had to update the bios to fix the system clock issue, and this is when the random stuttering appeared, but also the patch happened at the same time, so who knows. I also get occational massive slowdowns in other games, and only after that bios update, so I am thinking it might be this bug filled motherboard

I usually get them once every 30 minutes, and the performance begins degrading over the course of 10 seconds, at which time it totally stalls for a second, then goes back to normal. It stalls just long enough for me to fear the system locked before returning to normal. All my temps are well below throttling(65ish for cpu, gpu never goes over 55c).

Edit: I am running Windows 8.

If you are getting drops in FPS regularly, then you may want to monitor your processes being run.  Use Microsofts process viewer(search their website) and monitor it while playing, and see what is happening that is eating CPU power when you are getting the FPS drops.  Bet you will find something causing the issue.