FPS drops on gtx 970. Patch?

I have the same ;-) and on Ultra crash to windows and GFX Memory error on stock GTX 1070... Not playable at all... even high and lower settings... I want my money back...

stutter in this game is very bad, and gpu usage drop randomly especially in the city.

i7 6900k

gtx 1080ti

32 gb ram

Hi, I have update manualy my Win10 to Fall Creators Update becasue I have try Atmos on my Razer Headphones and run the NFS after update and everything is ok no stutter. Mision with DB11 all ok...

I7 6700K OC 4.5 Ghz

GTX 1070

8GB 

@RobsonikJGG good you found a fix that worked for you 🙂 Unfortunately for myself, I already had the Fall Creators Update before trying this game and still have massive stutters :/

Did you guys tried to check your CPU and GPU temperatures while playing?

I noted this game heat my CPU waaaaay more than any other game I ever played, even more that some OC torture tests, which I think is an issue btw.

Maybe some of you guys are having heat problems and the CPU/GPU is throttling.

After few hours gaming everything ok ;-)

@flep Temperatures are within what is safe for my setup so unfortunately overheating isnt the issue either :/

I also suffer heavy stuttering.  The game ruuns at 60fps most of the time at ultra, but the game freezes for a second at times.

I am running a i5-3570, 8gb of ram and a 1060 3gb.

Running windows 10 with fall update and latest Nvidia drivers

I have tried setting the game at lowest settings and the problem persist, and it is even worse than at ultra.

I also have noticed that the CPU usage is constant at 90%, DRM in the game? 

Vram is not bottle necking the game. At ultra the game uses about 75% of my Vram.

CPU and GPU temperatures are around 60-65°C after a few hours of playing.

Yeah it's definitely not a overheat problem, I bumped my fans to keep my temperatures lower and the micro-freezes still happen.

I'm playing on a 3570K @ 4.6Ghz with a 980TI at 1450Mhz on 1440p, mix of Ultra and High, FPS normally above 80/100.

The GPU usage is always at 99% (which is expected at this resolution) and it's not the problem, CPU hardly goes above 80% but as I monitor the usage with a history graph I can clearly see a CPU spike every time the micro-freeze happens. It's odd that it's even on the spike it doesn't go at 100%, but it happens.

I'll try a few things and report back here.

I dont have these issues any more (only small lag ticks because heavy rendering, the same happened in Forza Horizon 3 in the city areas), but what you could try is to disable Game Mode for Windows 10 if it is active.
Press WINDOWS Key -> Click on settings (gear symbol) -> Gaming -> Game Mode -> Disable It

Then test if that changes anything. I doubt it does, but I've heard it to be a performance culprit in some games.