Traversal stutter
Also searched as: traversal stutter · traversal hitching · streaming stutter
What it means
The hitch you feel when you move into a new area and the game has to load the next chunk of world on the fly. It's a brief freeze tied to motion, not to a fight or effect.
More detail
It's mostly an engine-side problem the game's developers have to solve, not something a driver flag fixes. What helps from your side: a fast NVMe drive, turning on DirectStorage if the game offers it, and capping your FPS to ease the load. It's especially common in big open-world UE5 titles.
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