(creates account) thank god im not alone. this problem has made me feel extremely alone and it feels like this is the only other post going through this mess. i've been furiously doing everything i can possibly think of to fix this problem. my computer has no excuse to be stuttering unplayably in this game. might be important to note - i enabled the FPS overlay and the game doesn't seem to change what FPS it thinks it's running when things hitch (which happens about once a second for me). i5 4690k (3.5 GHz x 4) nVidia GTX 1070 (8GB) 12 GB RAM WIndows 7 Pro SP1 also outputting 144Hz 1080p THINGS I HAVE TRIED THAT DID NOTHING changed all video settings to lowest changed all video settings to highest rescaling down rescaling up Vsync off Vsycn on at 144, 72, 48, and 36 Fullscreen, Windowed, Windowed-full, Borderless Multiple resolutions clean re-install of the game-ready driver forced nVidia's control panel (not GeForce Experience, the other one) to accept the Destiny 2 app is a game (it didn't auto detect it) and override video settings from there Disabled antivirus completely Attempted to re-install Direct X (no such luck, computer insists it's fine and dxdiag shows no issue) ran the battle.net tool to make sure the game files aren't corrupt, nothing found THINGS I HAVE TRIED WITH ANY SUCCESS Played rocket league - everything still runs completely fine, no issues Played quake champions - everything still works completely fine, no issues Ran overwatch (to test b.net client)- I went to the practice range, didn't actually queue, but it was fine OTHER NOTES i enabled the FPS overlay and the game doesn't seem to change what FPS it thinks it's running when things hitch (which happens about once a second for me). the settings menu also displays the right amount of VRAM - i had heard from a buddy who had to convince his computer that it should be using the better graphics card for some reason, but mine is detecting the 1070 just fine. PLANS TO TRY (tomorrow because it's late here) reinstall the game, despite b.net being convinced that it has nothing to repair switch to my 60Hz second monitor and see if that runs differently at that point, and failing any kind of official announcement... never think about destiny 2 again, i guess EDIT: one more thing, i forgot to mention, when the game started initially it had me in some 2k resolution, i don't know why, the screen doesn't support it... but now that i want to switch it back to see if that works, it isn't an option anymore.