FPS drops and stutter after update?

[Fluff-E-Kitty]

Noticed that my game is running a lot slower after the most recent update, unsure proper fix. running NVIDIA drivers and tried reverting to a previous one without any luck. computer is a few years old now but was running the game relatively well on medium settings for a few weeks and am around the old lumiere story wise. saved out at a flag without issues before update. it seems to now stutter or drop a series of frames as I move, and it makes dodge near impossible. have tried setting graphics to minimum and problem still persists. aside from waiting for a patch that hopefully addresses this, has anyone seen/fixed this as well?

iv found a note that there might be some issues associated with a specific sword, but I do not have it or at lest do not have it equipped.
thanks

[AztralWinged]

I have the same performance problem

Stuttering, fps drops, textures flickering, invisible npcs

That patch just broken the game

[C1REX]

Try resetting shader cache data. Your drivers may use old, wrong ones when it should compile new ones.

[Fluff-E-Kitty]

I ended up finding a few things that caused issues. problem is fixed, but im not sure of the exact root cause.
-originally had the game on an older SSD, and moving to an NVME drive with a higher read rate helped a lot. what I assumed as render issues where likely read/write time errors. but reinstalling it on a new drive also cleared the shaders.
-I was streaming the game via discord nitro and that actually seems to be the main issue, likely because of hardware acceleration, but dropping the stream quality fixed the issue (as in turning off the nitro boost mode)
-I also had to update a bunch of drivers recently to update my OS, and part of that was flashing my bios. likely unrelated for that specifically but it forced me to change over my gpu controller program among some other stuff that force updated large subsections of my system.