2 Things I tried and it fixed stuttering issues/choppy gameply/etc.

[Dare Murdok]

Previously I had tried everything like disabling Frame Generation and other things, as well as tanking settings to the Lowest and was still having issues with frequent chopping/freezing.

Looking through the .log file (should be in your Documents folder for the game) i noticed frequent reference to dxstorage stopping and resuming.
I cut dstorage.dll and dstoragecore.dll and pasted them to desktop.
I also changed the resolution to 720
the game launched fine and gameplay was smooth with no issues, even cutscenes ran without issue, i changed settings to High and had no issues doing that.

Here's the settings I used
[**************************************************Display + Graphics Settings**************************************************]
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] DirectX Version: 12
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Window mode: Fullscreen
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Fullscreen display mode:
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Displaying on monitor: 0
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Resolution: 1280x720
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Forced Aspect Ratio: Auto
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] HDR: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] OS reported Refresh rate: 60
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] VSync: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Reflex: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Anti-Lag2: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Frame generation: None
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Dynamic resolution FPS target: 0
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Anti aliasing: TAA
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Upscale method: None
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Upscale quality: Performance
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Upscale sharpen value: 0.000000
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Graphics Options:
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] RT Reflections: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] RT Interiors: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] RT Shadows: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] RT Ambient Occlusion: Off
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] RT Geometry Detail: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] RT Object Scale: 0.600000
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Texture Quality: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Texture Filtering: Anisotropic4x
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Shadow Quality: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Depth of Field: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Level of Detail: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Vehicle Detail: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Crowd Detail: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Hair Quality: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Ambient Occlusion: SSAO
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Screen Space Reflections: Low
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Particle Lighting: High
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Bloom: On
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Vignette: On
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Chromatic Aberration: On
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Motion Blur: 0.000000
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] FOV Correction: 1.000000
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Film Grain Strength: 0.700000
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Sharpness: 0.900000
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Lens Flares: On
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Screen Effects: On
09:44:19:667 (00076652) > [Settings] Screen Shake: Off


Hopefully this works for someone else having issues with stuttering and choppiness, maybe it will even help with crashing.

:)

[tloback]

I already posted a thread about this.
Ratchet and Clank had this same direct storage bug.

[Dare Murdok]

Originally posted by tloback:

I already posted a thread about this.
Ratchet and Clank had this same direct storage bug.

Sorry i didn't see the other thread
searching for info about direct storage lead me to a thread on reddit about how to disable it.