Hey @traqu , I've reported this before and I have tested numerous configurations including your exact setup.

There's a couple different kinds of stuttering you can experience.

If I were you I would test your temps, average FPS, and 1% lows over the course of 30 mins in different environments on official.

If you want to take an extra step, I believe AMD has a utility to see core/thread utilization.

Often the issue I found with DayZ is that it's very CPU bound, but CPU bound in a specific way.

On CPUs like mine and yours the game tends to core hop, and on top of that, I've never seen DayZ use more than 3-4 cores.

Things I've seen help:

• Enable your rams full ram speed

• Ensure your CPU isn't in a power savings mode

• Reduce cpu load: Reduce background tasks, lower CPU intense settings like object vis, terrain vis, and shadows.

-------- Obviously, this is guaranteed to be your problems or solutions, but again I've had this exact set up ---------

Another thing you mentioned is KarmaKrew, although KarmaKrew is on the more lightly modded side of "modded", it is still notable pressure on your CPU.

I would do testing on official to ensure consistency.

Reshade was banned but they already have a workaround for that.

How players use the current gunplay is not intended. Which is why the crosshair given by the game gives you a general area of where your bullets will land.

Players disable it and add a perfectly centered one. That is not intended.

The accuracy and ease of use is far above that of ADS. ADS should be for precision. And it is for sniping but for nothing else.

I'd prefer they rebalance hipfire to compliment ADS more appropriately, and then give the community a config with the options to change it back if they want.

Officially, the game shouldn't be "arcadey". It's a hardcore survival game, following the lore of the Arma series.

Not to say gunplay, movement etc should be the same. Just that point fire should not be preferred over ADS for precision.