Unreal Engine 5 (UE5)
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What it means
A very common game engine behind many 2024-and-later titles. It looks stunning and has a reputation for two specific kinds of stutter.
More detail
The two culprits are shader compilation (compiling effects on the fly) and traversal streaming (loading world as you move). Most of the fix has to come from the developers; from your side, let shaders pre-compile, use an NVMe drive with DirectStorage, cap your FPS, and ease back heavy lighting and shadow settings. No driver toggle fully solves an engine-side stutter.
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