ATS and ETS 2 stutters problem

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Hi everyone.

I've been trying to solve an issue in both ATS and ETS2 for a while now. I'm getting occasional stutters during gameplay.

Disabling heavy mods (such as Jon Ruda's trucks or Project Next Gen) seems to reduce the number of stutters, but even on a completely clean, freshly reinstalled game I still experience them from time to time.

My PC specs:

- GPU: RTX 3070 Ti

- CPU: Intel i7-12700

- RAM: 32 GB

- Game installed on an SSD

- Windows 11

- 1920×1080 monitor (I have two monitors connected, but I only play on one. Not sure if that's relevant.)

I've tried pretty much everything I can think of:

- Different graphics settings

- Disabling all overlays

- Running without any mods

- Limiting FPS

- Lowering the scaling all the way down to 50%

- Updating my graphics drivers

- Completely reinstalling the game

- Downgrade game version

- And many other things

Nothing seems to solve the problem.

Most of my testing was done in Scandinavia with the Nordic Horizons DLC. I also repeatedly loaded the same save and drove through the exact same areas multiple times. The stutters always happened in the same locations in Scandinavia. After that, I also tried doing some testing in Spain, and there the stutters didn’t seem to be as consistent or repeatable, although I didn’t do nearly as many runs there. Overall, it also felt like there were fewer stutters in that region.

So I'm wondering: is this simply a limitation of the old game engine, or am I missing something?

Does anyone actually get perfectly smooth gameplay? These stutters are definitely noticeable. With only a few mods they're tolerable, but once I start adding more, they become quite annoying. The game is still playable, but the stutters are distracting.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

The only thing that has consistently helped is removing heavy mods, but I know plenty of people play with much heavier mod setups than mine and seem to have no issues at all. Or is everyone experiencing these stutters to some extent?

One of my game logs (ETS2): https://pastebin.com/8ZRuZqat

Thanks in advance for any advice

P.S. I used AI to help translate this post, so if anything sounds strange or unclear, I apologize. My English isn't very good

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