Since a friend recently gifted me the Beyond Light DLC I had been unable to afford myself, I fired D2 up again at the time months ago (and then again today) and discovered a rather unusual problem: Cinematics (like the ones for the start of the Beyond Light campaign) cause my performance to brick hard... down to less than 5 fps, and hard audio stuttering along with it. What makes this even more strange is that the first 2 that play upon login and starting the Europa stuff have this problem, but the one right before starting to run around with my guardian talking to ghost runs just fine, but then the next one triggered repeats this problem. Gameplay itself seems to run smooth like butter down a baby's bottom. For me, this is unique to Cinimatics/Cutscenes, and seemingly not all of them, just most. If I do not skip the scene when it is an issue I will end up booted back to orbit via Error Code Rutabaga. I have never had performance issues like this in the past with destiny or any other game for that matter. I have tried about everything I can think of or find. I have: - rebooted the PC - verified the integrity of the game files in steam (no problems found) - changed settings down to near bare minimum (basically full minimum settings save for leaving my resolution at the same as my monitor. also have tried fullscreen and windowed modes) - deleted the cvars file - made sure that destiny has full permissions with antivirus and firewall (added it as a trusted application with no restrictions everywhere it was possible in Kaspersky) - ran [u]only[/u] Steam and Destiny 2 (closed down everything else) - tried disabling shader cache in nvidia control panel - changed audio to 16 bit, 44100 Hz (CD Quality). - (nothing is overclocked so far as I know) [b]edit: went from base clock settings to trying overclock to see if that helped at all, but no effect on the beyond light opening cinematic dropping to like 3 fps...[/b] - reset/optimized graphics settings back and forth in geforce experience (it optimizes on the high end so i tried to also set it to potato quality to see if it made a difference) - capped fps to 60 - updated to the newest driver for my GTX 980 Ti - tried a complete uninstall and fresh install None of the above has had any impact at all. My Build: [spoiler]- Intel Core i7-5820K LGA2011V3 3.3Ghz 6-core CPU - Asus STRIX GTX 980 TI GDDR5 6GB 384Bit PCI-E 3.0 DVI/HDMI/Display Port - Corsair H105 Liquid CPU Cooler 240MM - ASUS X99-A LGA2011-v3 DDR4 Motherboard - Corsair 1000W ATX 12V 80+ Gold Modular Zero RPM Fan Power Supply - Corsair Vengeance 32GB (488GB0 3000MHz DDR4 RAM - Corsair Graphite 780T ATX Full Tower Black - Kingston HyperX Fury 240GB SSD - Western Digital 4TB Caviar Black HDD - WD4003FZEX - Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (64-bit Operating System)[/spoiler] [url=https://pastebin.com/embed_js/FJyPrgHP]dxdiag[/url] [url=https://pastebin.com/embed_js/gYi0k3nw]64-bit dxdiag[/url] in case that makes a difference. At the moment, The only workaround I have is simply skipping 99% of cinematics/cutscenes... which is a bit of a bummer. Any extra help or insight would be appreciated This issue has persisted for a long time now and makes it impossible for me to enjoy a majority of the story aspect of the game. I'm hoping that there is something I have overlooked or some kind of fix Bungie is able to look into for this peculiar problem.