I have NEVER seen bullshit like this in any other game before. Places like the “Consumed Kings Garden, Dragon Barracks, Grand Archives and the Irithyll Dungeon' are goddamn jokes. Does not matter if I fight a boss or stare at a fucking wall. I get CONSTANT fps drops every 15 seconds. and I doubt it'll get patched 4 years after launch.

I really wanna play Dark Souls 3, but I cant seem to find a fix for this. I also have my task manager open to prove its not a GPU/CPU/Memory spike. I've recorded a short gameplay clip to see if I could capture what I mean in OBS: The FPS dips/freezes seem to happen around the same time the device manager refreshes. Has anyone else seen this issue recently? Is there a way to stop windows from refreshing/picking up new devices temporarily? I can't find any reason as to what causes the refresh, as nothing new appears on the list of devices. However - I did notice that the device manager refreshes every 10-60 seconds and that more than likely does correspond with the lag spikes. I disabled all my HID-compliant devices, with the exception of the DS4. Googling the issue finds 'fixes' from 2-3 years ago regarding disabling components in my Device Manager. I am using a PS4 controller with Bluetooth, I tried using it wired, wondering if Bluetooth was causing the issue - but that didn't fix the issue. I highly doubt my PC specs are an issue (RTX 3080, i9 10900k, 64GB DDR4 3200), and after days of Googling I only found a few possible solutions. I've been trying to play Dark Souls 3 on Steam for the last few days and have been having major frame rate issues.

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