Ideas
I’m having the exact same issue here. Everything was smooth back in Season 0, but since the Eastwood update, the game has become a stuttering mess.
I’m on an RTX 4060 (8GB VRAM) and 32GB RAM. After about 5 minutes of gameplay, my FPS just tanks from 90 to literally 0.5 for a few seconds. It happens like clockwork every 2 minutes after that.
I’ve been monitoring this with HWiNFO64 and the VRAM leak is super obvious. Even though the in-game settings say I'm only using around 5.6GB, the actual usage spikes and hits the 8GB limit, which is clearly what’s causing these massive freezes. I even uninstalled the HD textures, but it didn't change a thing. I'm playing on high settings, DLSS off.
It’s definitely a regression on the dev side, not our hardware. Hope this gets prioritized because the game is literally unplayable right now.