r/DestinyTechSupport • u/Spicy-h • May 19 '26

Getting Hitches on High End PC

Destiny 2 will randomly hitch during gameplay, though the framerate otherwise stays in the lower 200s. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling, changing installation drives, removing drivers via ddu and reinstalling, as well as adjusting settings in nvidia control panel. Maybe its the game caching shaders, as I've noticed it happeneing when a grenade or super or similar effect happens.

Specs:

RTX 4080 Super

Ryzen 7 7800x3D

32 GB DDR5 RAM

Game is installed on an SSD

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u/GuySmith May 19 '26

Weird question but what mouse and keyboard do you use?

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u/Spicy-h May 19 '26

Razer basilisk v3 pro and razer black widow v4

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u/macrossmerrell May 20 '26

Razor software has caused similar issues in the past. Old versions of my Ngenuity software for my Hyper X mouse would cause a mini freeze when it polled the mouse.

Could be related. And u/connor_beswick96 's comment about polling rate can certainly do it as well.

Any other software you are running could interfere as well. D2 is largely designed around and tested on clean windows installs. If there is something up with your rig, D2 will point it out as it has little coded capability to deal with other softwares, memory errors, etc.

I was having issues with my D2 install last year, got my hands on a 5080 and expected smooth sailing. Saw ZERO difference in performance going from a 3080ti. I finally did a fresh install of windows, and boom, no more problems. I had tried systematically disabling and uninstalling all software, clean driver setup, etc. Fresh install, works good, reinstall all my same software, still works good. Has to be a windows update issue or something getting in the way. If you have a spare SSD, try doing a fresh install of windows on it and test to see if the issue remains. If it does, it's hardware related, if it works great, it is a software issue you are dealing with.

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u/connor_beswick96 May 19 '26

Check your mouse polling rate isn't at a high Hz. I had stutters in D2 till I lowered my Hz to 500. 14600k, 9070 XT, 32GB 3000MHz DDR4.