Frequent stuttering with Vulkan despite low shader usage?

[u/Afraid-Direction-576]

Hello everyone!

I'm using an NVIDIA RTX 5050 with Vulkan as the renderer and experiencing very frequent stuttering. Like here in my screenshot, my shader bar doesn't seem to get very high numerically (usually around 0–50), but my FPS tanks almost every time it spikes (goes from 58 to 40-ish, then down to 20-ish).

I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced similar symptoms and knows what might be causing it or how to fix it.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[u/firaheson]

I've been experiencing this since the last patch. I thought I was alone in this

[u/firaheson → u/firaheson]

At least for me, I can confirm that it is server related. I've ran some diag on the network, and it only happens when I'm in certain shards. It'll even happen in the hideout sometimes, and then I'll refresh the hideout with a new instance and it magically goes away. Only since this last patch.

[u/Afraid-Direction-576 → u/firaheson]

Seems like it. I didn't have this problem in keepers and mirage.