In context: Arkane's latest immersive sim-slash-shooter-slash-stealth-'em-upwards, Deathloop, released mere days ago to rave reviews (for the most office). As is oftentimes the example with Arkane games, Deathloop's PC version has suffered from a few nagging operation issues since its September 13 release. To be specific, some customers have been plagued by frustrating stuttering issues they tin't seem to fix themselves.

Fortunately, an end to these problems could be in sight at long concluding, thank you to the efforts of everybody'due south favorite gaming graphics tech YouTube channel Digital Foundry (as well as Deathloop's developers themselves).

DF's Alex Battaglia covers all of the latest details regarding Deathloop'southward PC performance optimization in the video below, amidst other things, such as how Deathloop'south PC port stacks upward against its PS5 analogue. However, the latter isn't the relevant bit for at present.

What is relevant to us is why Deathloop seems to be stuttering on PC at all. As Battaglia & co discovered, information technology is not, generally speaking, because the game is making poor utilize of your organisation's resources. In fact, he says, Deathloop boasts fantastic frametimes, with no stand-out CPU usage problems to speak of (on average hardware, anyhow). At that place are a couple exceptions, which he points out, just that is generally the case.

What people are reportingas stuttering, he says, is actually caused past an unusual mouse move issues that can present itself regardless of whether you lot run the game at a locked 30, 60, or 120 FPS (or even if you lot don't lock at all and apply G-Sync or FreeSync to manage hitching). When yous motility the camera, information technology occasionally stops outright for a frame -- unfortunately, that'southward a big enough hitch for many users, myself included, to notice and subsequently mutter about.

So, what's the solution? Prior to yesterday, at that place wasn't one, really. Even so, if yous're willing to delve into the oh-then-unsafe (non really) realm of hotfixes, Arkane now has a partial answer. By opting-in to Deathloop'southward latest beta patch (Battaglia explains how to do then at roughly the 5:38 mark in a higher place), you tin can eliminate the mouse jittering when running at a locked 30, lx, or 120 FPS.

Unfortunately, the issue is nonetheless present for those running on a variable refresh rate (VRR) monitor, using tech like the aforementioned G-Sync. Hopefully, Arkane will close that concluding little gap before long. It'due south evident that they're aware of the trouble, at least.

So, TL;DR: how do you set Deathloop'due south PC "stuttering"? Download the latest beta patch on Steam, lock your framerate to either threescore or 120 FPS (ideally) and conform your settings as needed to ensure your machine tin retain that framerate throughout gameplay. And voila, that'due south it! In theory, anyway.

Hopefully, DF's advice combined with Arkane's difficult behind-the-scenes work will satisfy some of Deathloop's. By most accounts, it is otherwise a fantastic game.