Stuttering, Small freezes and framerate Issues

[Jazz]

As for the sound part of the stuttering I'm fairly certain now that the final solution will be:
the patch4 with a main_settings with settings that are MaxChannels="48" StreamBuffers="6" StreamBufferSize="32768". Been testing this and the sound works as the should while we have minimized the resources used.

Now for the rest of the stuttering issue, which might more be a slowdown type of stutter? There is a common hardware and that is that all reporting in with having this issue has a Radeon HD5000 series (with the exception of 1 with 6000 series). Yes, there could be a problem with the game, but there could also be a driver issue or similar. So for starters a test here can be to do point nr 3 from here http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-22991.html to make sure the drivers are at least clean and free of corruption.

Jens, I've tested this already. I've reverted back to older drivers before. But because I'm not a complete *sshole I followed the steps in thread 22991, and nuked those AMD drivers off my hard drive with Driver Sweeper. I just did that, a few seconds ago. Really, they were gone. Not there anymore. Believe me.

I reinstalled the latest drivers (13.4, because beta drivers always suck and cause BSOD's and other crap that's even more scary than anything I've played or experienced before). And guess what...?

No difference. None. Zip. Nada. I know there are games on the market in which dips in framerate are very "normal". Especially when you try to run Alan Wake on a 486 DX2. But AAMFP isn't ARMA 2. Or Take on Helicopters. Or DCS Black Shark 2. It's not even better looking than say... Modern Warfare 2. Yes, that's a cliched comparision. There is no excuse for poor performance in AAMFP, and you know it. It's poor coding/old engine. I wouldn't like to hear that either, but sadly that's the case. I know you are an independent studio and don't have as much resources available as Activision.

But just admit it. I know my system is almost fossilized, but it runs recent games which are way better looking than AAMFP very well. Fiddling with settings in those games can actually have good results. In AAMFP this is not the case. Whether I run it on 'low', 'medium' or 'high'... It just runs like frozen sh*t runs through a funnel, as we say here.

Don't insult my intelligence, please.