My experience with the game so far (1 crash, stutters stopped after a while)

Loaded game up, it was doing it's preloading and I noticed it put me to the menu at 50% of the preload, so I knew it was still doing stuff in the background.

Cut to upgrading latest drivers & 2 resets later, still stuttering in the menu with everything low (and I tried auto-settings before that).

After a while it just 'stopped'.

I also noticed any game settings should be applied with a reset, I think it helps.

I started playing, barely got through the tutorial area and got 1 crash...not looking good, reported it with all the info.

But after the stuttering stopped it's been smooth sailing, I am now on the 'High' preset (yes yes, I'm aware that high global illumination and the other one is raytracing), but it's smooth as butter and I'm loving the combat.

Hopefully I won't get any more crashes...I'll give it 3 crashes before I'll just wait for a new patch/upgrade.

- My advice to you is to leave the game open for 10-20mins or something, so it preloads the assets or whatever it's doing in the background. And also restart with every graphic setting change.

Specs in case some were wondering.

- Ryzen 3600X

- 32GB RAM

- 6800XT

- SSD

Looking forward to playing more of the game for sure!