FPS Drops (300 -> 2 fps) micro stutters post Old Gods, New Blood

[devlin]

I typically average around 300 fps with a smooth experience. However, after Old Gods, New Blood dropped, I'm having game ruining frame stutters every 5, 10 seconds. I'm going to link some clips from just the last game I've played, and this is just a few that I recorded. It happens consistently throughout the entire game. This is my favorite game and it makes me sad I can't play it at a competitive level anymore due to performance issues.

I've tried:
switching back to preset K in the nvidia app
switching to Vulcan
reinstalling the game
full screen instead of full screen borderless
deleting steam shader cache for the game
deleting game folder shader cache
deleting directeX shader cache
clearing all nvidia shader caches
downgrading nvidia drivers
switching to FSR instead of DLSS
fresh clean driver install using DDU
deleting the shader_.vpk files and verifying integrity of game files
deleting the video settings file and backup file
turning off my GPU OC
turning off my CPU OC
turning off my ram OC

Verified that my GPU is NOT overheating.
Will check CPU temps after I post this and give an update.
EDITl: yeah CPU temps are fine
Every other game I try (BF6, Highguard (smh), POE2, ARC Raiders, Warframe, COD, CS2) runs perfectly smoothly with no issues. With and without my OCs turned on.

Pretty stuck here! Not sure what else I can try
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF, 3201 Mhz, 24 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
Graphics Card GeForce RTX 4090
64 GB DDR4 Ram
SSD

EDIT:

Saw this in the console after one of the stutter spikes

 

[a5dhr]

Wanted to report about this issue thinking I was the only one having trouble with this issue. I asked alot of people in game if they had any stuttering issue, never got a yes from anyone. I used DDU to delete and reset my drivers and downloaded an older NVIDIA driver (581.80) which fixed the issue. However, it was temporary and the sttuters kept on happening where my GPU ussage goes from 50-70% to 0%. Tried alot of ways to fix, did the same as the guy from this post, removed RAM, CPU, GPU OC, still nothing worked. Every game works perfectly for me except for deadlock.


PC specs:

i9-14900k
3090
32 GB DDR5

 

[a5dhr]

@Yoshi

 

[Gelidus]

theres actually a workaround from what ive learned! they updated the game to use something 4.5, i forgot the name, but from what i remember preset F works really well in the nvidia app for deadlock.

 

[RouquinBlanc]

up
Exactly got the same problem, posted on it also

 

[alafosselt]

same issue here

 

[devlin]

theres actually a workaround from what ive learned! they updated the game to use something 4.5, i forgot the name, but from what i remember preset F works really well in the nvidia app for deadlock.

I've tried preset F, unfortunately I still have the same issues