@Sabrehawk - That's what I thought too, last time I experienced these stutters was a decade ago or so. Like I said, the issue popped up after the 1.06 update and it doesn't seem likely that its related to audio. But when I remove the sound effects from the game, the stuttering in my case is far less, others experience no difference. So how does that compute?
This is an issue that is experienced by many such as myself with high end systems, your answer does little to allievate the unplayability, it really adds nothing.
Sorry for my tone but this is an issue that for some makes the game near- or totally unplayable since beta and we'd all appreciate it if Frontier paid attention to the various threads and tickets.