Micro Stutters Despite Stable FPS (Patch 1.117.221)

I'm having issues with gfx stuttering since the last update, too. The game is still playable, of course, but it's very annoying. This is with both standard DirextX 11 and when using the option "-dx9".

This does not occur constantly; it's more like there is some background work being done every few seconds.

For example, in San Myshuno, when the camera drops or rises several floors in a short period of time, the stuttering is sometimes very bad, like only 5 animation frames for the entire movement. Everything is affected: on the blue loading screens, the rotating plumbob and the text stutter, windows like Simology etc. stutter when they open or close, walking sims suddenly rush forward about a foot, etc.

Whatever they tried to improve performance with the latest update seems to have backfired somewhat. "Enhanced rendering performance for smoother visuals" - not really, no.