It worked for me. I was getting this exact problem any time I used Ansel to take a neato screenshot. It was annoying enough that I didn’t want to take any more cool pics, for fear of invoking the wrath of the stutter gods. But now I can snap away, just like my buddy Prompto. So I’m happy. A weird bonus of the mod (for me anyway) is that alt-tabbing no longer snatches away fullscreen. It used to box my game into a window, and fiddling with the options wouldn’t return it to normal. But that’s gone now too. And it isn’t the only general improvement.

“This also includes a fix for excessive SteamAPI overhead that causes unusually long load screens and hitches during heavy texture streaming,” adds Kaldaien. “That problem is easily mistaken for Denuvo, but emphatically has nothing to do with Denuvo.” All in all, a very useful “mini-mod” from the fella who offered similar fixes to Final Fantasy X, Tales of Beseria and Disgaea. However, if you’re a sneaky bad person with a pirated copy (a pirated version leaked last week, before the game was even released) then this fix won’t work for you. And sorry, but you don’t stand much chance of convincing Kaldaien into making a fix especially for bootleggers.

“If you try to use this and you have a pirated version, it’s not going to work,” he tells someone in the forum thread. “I don’t have time to debug your inferior pirated versions of games.”

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