Like the title says, I'm a bit miffed as to how these new patches have had such an annoying hit on game performance, for myself at least. Done some extensive testing today. With and without patches. Playing through the same area on both tests doing exactly the same things. The difference is night and day. Without patches the game runs like I'm playing on a PC, frame rate is completely smooth with no stuttering what so ever, and 99% no screen tearing. I then replayed the exact same section with patches installed, and every 5 seconds or so a stutter, I have read that people are saying that this is just game assets loading in and is completely normal, not the case at all. Unless with the patches they tried a different approach to how and when the game loads things in (only when you get closer to things) which in turn is causing a constant stuttering effect. With the patches screen tearing is also more evident, happening when i look up and down a group of trees for example, again i couldn't replicate it on the non patched play through, looking at exactly the same trees. Does anyone know after which patch this stuttering started ?

Has anyone else tested this at all ?