PC input lag - Narrowed it down, let's talk

A lot of people are reporting this problem, and I've been able to narrow down what exactly it is and some things that might be causing it.

I and many other players experience an issue where the game will play fantastic, then there will be a change. The players will become less responsive, both dribbling and jockeying. It's not stuttering or any big performance drop, it's something you can feel though. Passing becomes less crisp, skills become less responsive, but the big sign is the players don't do as many quick little touches on the ball and they feel more 'on rails' rather than the free flowing, gliding feeling. It seems to then effect attacking movement off the ball, but that may be because the players become less responsive. It also effects shooting, accuracy and the entire feel of the game.

I actually had the same issue in FC25 and possibly 24, and it had a similar cause

It has something to do with display settings not saving/resetting between games or after flicking through menus. 

Sometimes changing a setting will fix it, though the actual setting may be arbitrary, and the change itself seems to reset the config.

I stopped playing fc25 after a month last year because of this, it makes playing a chore because you can't tell when you go into a game whether you have the 'bug' or not, or when you might trigger it by tabbing out, scrolling a menu or who knows what. 

It is the display settings though, I'm 100% sure of it. 

It may have something to do with the cutscene framerate, as when I set it to 'full' it fixed the issue for a while, though it comes back. 

It has nothing to do with ping because the sluggish gameplay persists in offline modes, kickoff and training arena. 

I would appreciate any's comments or advice how to permanently fix the issue so that I can actually have a session and not have to quit the game and reload it just to guarantee it won't bug out.

Things I have found that may help others experiencing the issue:

set cutscene framerate to full

don't tab out while running the game

don't hit the right trigger and bring up the social menu, you get the 'new input detected' message which may be what triggers it.