Norie

Great, thanks for the information. I'll be sure to play around with the settings; hopefully when 2.1 is released it will relieve some of my issues.

Unfortunatly what you suggested was not the culprit. However I did a bit more testing and found the following results: With very sever weather: SMP enabled: Higher FPS, but longer and more frequent stutters . SMP disabled: Lower FPS, but relativly shorter stutters. With a perfectly clear sky: SMP enabled: FPS capped at 60, still stutters though not as bad as the above section. SMP disabled: FPS slightly lower 55 ish, but stutters are almost eliminated. Clearly loading terrain and cloud data is causing the issue. Though I'm not sure what can be done to address it.

Wow, I'm embarrassed I didn't think of this. So technically it is my connection to the weather servers that's limiting me! Very good, I'll give this a shot here in a bit.

My current setup seems to have slight stuttering problems when I turn SMP on. The settings are by no means high, mostly a collection of medium settings. This is not a low FPS issue as I maintain a solid 60, but every 30-40 seconds the screen with freeze for less than half a second. When I turn off SMP the stuttering is drastically minimized and the stutters last less than .1 of a second and occur less often. This is not an issue with my hardware as the following setup is being used. Is there an underlying problem I'm missing here? i7 4770k stock speeds (dud OCer) EVGA 780 ti Superclocked 3gb 16gb DDR3 MSI Z87 GD65 Windows 7