Balage06

Interesting, I tried the workaround suggested by multiple people in other forums: I manually disabled the HID controllers in the Device Manager one by one, disabling a specific entry indeed fixes the stuttering in both DR2 and D4.

Out of curiosity, I checked the precedessors with the same PC - game controllers combo: - Dirt Rally runs without issues - I experience the same problem in DiRT4 too, I get these periodic stutters every 3-5 seconds when at least one of my controllers is plugged in (- F1 games are also free of this issue)

Yeah, after further investigation, the steering wheel (Thrustmaster T300RS) causes the issue for me as well. As soon as I unplug the wheel and use the keyboard instead, the game runs just fine. But it seems that Dirt Rally 2.0 is the only game affected by this, even F1 2019 runs silky smooth with it.

I built a new PC two weeks ago and now I'm having the same issue. My config: ASUS ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING motherboard AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU (Stock settings) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB GPU 16GB DDR4 RAM 3200 MHz (DOCP profile) Windows 10 1903 64bit Input devices: Thrustmaster T300RS GT Edition SHH Shifter Aiologs Handbrake (It's also worth mentioning that I had no performance issues before with a much older config and the same game controllers.) I have this periodic freeze described in the OP as well. It's also present in the menu and it's there regardless of graphic settings, even with everything turned off or set to low. I'll try to post a more detailed report later.