Setting Textures to medium or high causes game to stutter

Using a 1070ti with latest drives, setting textures to Medium or High blocks the main game thread every time there is a GPU memory usage spike (as shown in the image below) causing the game to ‘freeze’ when said spike occurs. This ‘freeze’ occurs at all times in the game including:

  • Cinematic
  • Main menu
  • Gameplay
  • In-game cinematics.

Game framerate is not an issue even when the ‘freezing’ occurs so it is not a performance problem (or at least not an obvious one).

Setting textures to low still spikes GPU RAM at the same amount and interval without blocking main thread.


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Anybody getting the same issues with the 1080p textures or am I taking crazy pills here?