How's stuttering on the new version?

[SVoyager]

Hello, just downloaded the new version out today and wanted to check if the game was still heavily stuttering and I still seem to be affected by it. (I had put the game on pause for the past 6 months hoping for a fix). How is everyone else who had this issue, doing with today's patch? I had heard they made CPU optimisations, not sure if it was for this patch tho.

Just to make sure we are all talking about the same thing:
-I will get random "stutters" that can last 4-5 seconds every 20-30 seconds or so depending on where I am. (Is worse in big cities usually).
-The game will literally hang for 4-5 secs and the CPU will maxout 100% all cores during that time.
-In between stutters, CPU usage will drop back to lower values, 30-50% in my case.
-I am not talking about low overall FPS here. Just very strong stutters / hangs. Moments where you get 0 FPS at all for a significant amount of time.

I am running on an old PC, not gonna hide it. It's an i7 4770k (clocked at 4.2ghz), 16gb, gtx1080. She's due for an upgrade but my issue is only the fact that the game hangs here and there, just by standing still and looking around. Outside of that, it is very playable. This rig runs HD2 or pretty much any other game out there, but of course not at 200fps, which is expected.

FYI I tried the BES fix, it helps a lot but eventually crashes the game. Havn't tested with today's update tho.

What are y'all getting with this update?

[SVoyager]

Alright found the issue here. So i'm posting this in case others hit this thread for answers. There was a few places that said to try to block core 0 from the game. Did that, no more stutters. (Its not a sure fix for all but worth trying if you havn't done that yet).

So maybe starfield goes too hard on core 0 leaving the OS struggling. Star citizen goes much worse on the CPU tho, but must be something starfield does differently...

Not happy with leaving 25% of the CPU unused, tried turning on HyperThreading as it was never really proven to help but in this case, it seems like the extra 4 threads makes starfield and windows happy. No need to block core 0.

TLDR;
Disable CPU Core 0 on starfield
or
Enable HT if its not enabled already.

Feels good to play this stutter free, woot.