So what happened to him ? <| sep |> I agree . Palestrina is bae <| sep |> My magic combination was to turn off Adaptive Resolution , turn off ingame vsync , set the ingame limiter to the highest option , 120 , I think turn ON Triple Buffer , and use external frame limiter Rivatuner Afterburner to limit the FPS to my display ' s refresh rate 60 . This achieved a very smooth gameplay , which I expect on a PC i 7 1070 . Also , make sure to restore anything to the default value in your NVIDIA Control Panel , which you might have altered previously . My specs are even lower than yours a little bit , I have an i 72600 k . This game is so poorly optimized . <| sep |> If I had to guess , your GPU is overheating and has cooling issues . If you ' re not careful , the card will melt off . Make sure that the inside your PC is clean . I once had a PC using a Graphics card which let the dust settle inside the Fan area , and it did that for many games . I used it as reason to upgrade , and the card worked fine in another PC for some time after , until the whole PC was trashed . Last time It did this , I took my PC outside as the resulting dust storm would have made it look like the hoover exploded in the bed room .