I know I keep going on about it but I can't help thinking that the kind of performance I am experiencing under DX11 in this game is not what everyone else is getting. However, VRAM usage is under 6 GB (out of 11 GB) in both DX11 and DX12 so it's not that plus the game runs perfectly fine under DX11 with virtually no stutter at all (perhaps a little right at the start when data is still being loaded) despite running off a SATA3 hard drive. The stuttering/hitching in SWB2 under DX12 is kind of like what happens when memory fills up and data is being cached to the hard drive. Since I do not have another PC to test the game on I am still none the wiser as to whether there is something else on my machine that prevents DX12 running as it should be.

DX11 comparisons and the game seems to run OK under both, albeit DX11 usually has the higher framerate. What puzzles me though is that I've seen DX12 vs. DX12 is just a mess on my system for this game. In fact, even with HTFS shadows the game runs significantly better under DX11 than it does on Ultra shadows under DX12. It continues to judder and jerk and stutter and be all-round unpleasant to play on the exact same settings which the game runs perfectly fine on under DX11. I guess the addition of those is further reason not to bother with DX12 at all on NVIDIA graphics card, not least because, on my system anyway, it is absolutely impossible to get a smooth running game under DX12. I noticed that under DX11 that Star Wars: Battlefront II has two higher Shadow settings beyond Ultra that are not available under DX12, these being PCSS and HTFS.

Battlefront 2 vs battlefront 3