When I first got the hard pauses and micro stutters (these are two different issues for clarification I have both) it was right after Shattered Space and my first playthrough of it. People ask why I no longer have the hard pause anymore, and this is why:

I didn’t go back and do the Shattered Space quest after several NG plus. Like many of you who probably only played through once or twice. So, hard pauses went away but micro stutters began in The Well, and Neon,. Then a while later, I promised ShadowWeaver I would make a video on her habs. I had a whole funny idea planned out too with the ship vendor in Dazra. That meant I had to play through the Shattered Space quest to get there. As soon as I stepped on the Oracle, the hard pauses started. We even had a whole live stream trying to figure it out. I rolled back my save to before I got on the Oracle, no hard pauses.

I ended up scrapping the idea and just did interior shots, because of the hard pauses persisted and started, as soon as I stepped onto the Oracle. Also as a content creator, the hard pauses make it nearly impossible to make videos, just as a side note. I remember Sinkiller mentioning the stutters in one of his last videos. Wonder if he gave up finding a solution to stop the stutters so he could keep making cool videos for us. Anyway….

I did a live stream on “The Veil” my game was not experiencing the hard pauses. In fact I forgot all about them, but like everyone else with micro stutter issue, the major cities were a nightmare. Once we got to the finale of The Veil Quest and entered the new location in New Atlantis, the hard pauses started. All happened in the live stream. I IMMEDIATELY deleted “The Veil” and “Beyond The Veil”. Hard pauses stopped.

After update with Watchtowers new space station location, new added npc’s and gear, just like the other large quests I mentioned, as soon as the first space battle hit, and then stepped onto the space station, the hard pauses started again. Then when I left the station and went to a WT location, the micro stutters started inside the fist Watchtower location they send you to, as seen in this video. As soon as I removed Watchtower, no hard pauses. Micro stutters now gone in major cities with the update, for me, but with the mod, hard pauses all the time and micro stutters at Watchtower locations.

***** This is my attempt at sharing my experience in hopes it will help. If your experience was similar to this, please comment below so at least maybe a modder can find a solution for us. Please be constructive and spare us “Just disable your mods” or “It’s your computer” or “Turn off Dynamic Resolution”(for those on an XBOX with it? How?))🙄. ************

I am on PC and was having a lot of weird pauses and studders but it turned out Starfield is not compatible with the driver for my NVME drive. I moved starfield to an old SSD drive and the studders went away for my system.

You lost like 90% of your views in 2mins…. No one wants to hear yt’er throw their toys…. Just wanted to see a review on watchtower. Cheers 💀

Many thanx for this video. Some sort of catarsys to me.
I’m on PC, with 150+ mods & creations. A modest load order I worked on with love and passion. Before the update, I had a lot of stutters : micro stutters every 3 seconds in some areas (mainly cities). Some mods made those worse (fx : ship vendors framework, starborn guardian vii+, fleet commander…).
BUT those stutters were almost completely resolved using ** SFSE/Starfield Engine fixes ** with the right .ini configuration. Some micro stutters were still present in Neon/Cydonia and some very dense planets anyway, but I lived with them.
Since the last update, I got micro stutters everywhere I look. I waited for the mods updates, tried to activate/unactivate/rearrange/reinstall mods, nothing worked. Spend many hours on this.
I’m really disappointed. I’m a big fan of this game. I can live with some frame drops sometimes, but not repetitive stutters that really kills me.
At least, your video makes me think mods are not the problem. I’m now waiting for Starfield Engine Fixes to update, I hope this will fixe the stutters.
I understand your rage. Bethesda just disappointed me. I thought they love their games. Maybe I’m wrong and they just take us for fools and wallets to drain…

I hate being called a hater after literally buying an entire Xbox for this game alone, then being pissed of once I completed it in December of the same year, only to realize how f*** up it was and empty compared to Skyrim and fallout 4! Literally AI NPC interaction with NO SOUL!!! It’s about time everyone wake tf up and realize they’ve been screwing everybody with this game since releasing it!!! The first straw for me was not getting the dlc I pre paid for until a whole year later and it was 15minutes worth of content stretched out!!! Smh after shattered space I’ve been speaking the truth, and I’m a hater smh. It’s actually funny hearing you try NOT to face reality so many years and broken promises later. F** this game

Everybody need to start talking with their wallets, this is getting ridiculous

Sista citizen you gained you a follower on this one. You preach girl you sad everything I say. I’m a huge fan of the game with about 873 hours. It needs to be said from the fans. Bethesda is to blame. The whole 100% positive attitude about the game is now just hurting it. I’m glad to see another fan like me have the back to say something other than it’s so great of a update. They absolutely suck at quality control. I would love to play watchtower but I’m at a hard stop bug were torin wont grave jump behind me to start the quest. Removed all mods to see if it would work no it don’t. So I read some people have my problem and there is a patch waiting to be approved from Bethesda. This is the 3rd payed mod Ive been bit. I’ve tried defending this game for years and Bethesda makes me look like a AHole everytime. They get you excited and stay silent just for nothing. I nearly spit my drink everywhere when you started saying boooo at the end I literally did the same thing. True fans need to speak up its for the better for the game. I have 100% respect for what you did being Starfield is a huge part of your channel. We need and make starfield good movement lol. Thank you I see your video hit hard in the steam forms lol. People still blame you and all the mods you have they are complete idiots. You should not have to learn programming to get a game or mod to work properly especially if your paying money for it. If you’re pay for it it should just work. Or at least be honest and say it may have or cause stuttering or other issues.

I’m glad I waited and will still wait until some sort of stability is obtained. I’m fine playing with 1.14 til this is somewhat resolved. I feel for all that are frustrated, been there, done that. But, finally got a load order that works well, on a 3070 @60 fps average, got a new card, not tops but better, and its been doing great as well. To get to the point – why can a genius like LarannKiar produce Starfield Engine Fixes that work better than the company that made the game. LarannKiar has posted that the update killed his mod, but, they will be rewriting the mod for 1.15. They also posted it would take about a week and that it would no longer rely on the Address Library. One can only hope it “fixes” Bethesda’s problems again. Hang in there people, we are in this together. 🖖o7 o7

Stuttering came back and loading times have worsened. Seven months for a patch and outsourced DLC, this is awful.

Let me guess, you have an AMD X3D CPU?

I’ll tell you what Bethesda is testing and I am going to be extremely blunt they are testing us to see how much money we are willing to spend for subpar quality

BEFORE THE PATCH: I used to have stutter every 3 seconds in places like the Well etc. Only deleting certain mods would get rid of it (or atleast reduce it to a non-noticable degree).

AFTER the patch: every ”wilderness” planet that I land at causes extreme stutter every 3 seconds INSIDE THE SHIP instead of the Well etc. Other ”larger Enclosed Spaces” are now uneffected by the ”stutter bug” since the last patch, but they moved that bug to the ship instead.

If I land on New Atlantis, 1-of-a-kind Salvage or alike (ports etc.) or when in space; ship has no lag/stutter when walking around inside the hull or looking outside in 3th person view.

But landing in a non-port/non-dock area (non-populated regions) caused extreme stutter (”lag”) about every 3 seconds that very, very noticable. It doesn’t just break immersion. It breaks the gameplay.

It’s like they just took ”The Well Stutter”, moved it onboard the ship instead, and made it so much worse since instead of being in 2-3 places in the game world, now Well etc. works perfectly but I take the stutter wherever I go with my ship 🙁 Sigh..

I haven’t had the stutter since the patch.

Bethesda fix…something? Ha, ha, ha, ha stop it you’re killing me. Seriously though get yourself a…modder. They CAN do it. If you’re waiting for Bethesda… ha, ha, ha, ha.

Seems it mostly pc players having problems, my console runs fine…

On xbox x update is fantastic bought and downloaded watchtower getting stutter inside my ship when i land on a planet not outside deleted watchtower stutter went away ill wait to see if it gets updated for now not using it. Waste of money.

The game is ok I like it. It has soo much potential it just needs abusive daddy Tod’s love and attention.🥺

I just got the mod and noticed the stutter today I’m on pc rtx 3070 🤣

I’m confused. You posted 2 weeks ago that the beta update fixed the stutter?
So, did the stutter come back when the update went to the public channel, or did the stutter come back because of Watchtower?

Sad that we all still have to deal with this. Just started playing this mod and pinpointed exactly where the stuttering started for me and I’ve been running this game buttery smooth for a while even before the patch.

Now I was able to fix it by doing what some people suggested and I put the mod at the very top of my load order. It fixed it instantly, but the fact that I even have that problem is just…tiresome. I’m running this game on an almost $6k rig and should have ZERO problems, so those of you blaming specs can pipe all the way down. I’ts 2025…we should be playing “Starfield”, not “Spend hours googling solutions and moving files around”

With all that said…I still love this game and the mod so far is a lot of fun. I just hope Bethesda wakes the F up and starts loving it too…

No stutter gaslighted folks! I’m using watchtower on 1.14.74 with the save cleaner utility, thats the best way to get rid of many (not all) stutters. See yall space mules!

Anyone else run into the problem of not being able to commandeer WatchTower ships due to HAB misalignment while clearing he ship of bad guys?

06:08 …welp, seems as if even @SistaCitizen is fed up with Bethesda’s s**t. You’ve really f**ked up if you manage to p*ss her off! 🤷

I had bad stutters a while back. I believe it was mod related.
I have Watchtower in a new save and it’s smooth so far. Time will tell if stutters kick in after a certain point.

Beltaloda the erthlings can’t understand us bc they are blinded by the light.

I had stutters before the update and disappeared after the patch. I just checked the troubled area for me ( The well, The Core in Voli, even in one of my heavy built outpost) after I installed Watchtower creation and stutters remained fixed. I am only half way of the story line of the creation thou. I will keep an eye but so far so good in my gamer laptop 🙂

Oblivion Remastered Enters the chat

I was holding back playing on my laptop since the update due to SFSE, but ended up just disabling four things in Vortex. It’s playing ok, other than when I go in the Viewport two male potential crew ie. like Defensive Systems Specialist, etc. have female voices…, but that was going on before the update. And before the update docking with other ships, the docking hatches didn’t always line up when docking-that’s a pretty simple thing. And the docking not lining up happened at least four times last night. Sometimes it just docks against the other ship’s hull, not the docking clamp area. So yeah Bethesda doesn’t seem to care about simple things.

I tried my Xbox Series X two nights ago, I hadn’t used it since December, because even though I deleted all my saves except 10 and most of those were early game so they weren’t big saves; my game still won’t save and just kicks me out of the game if I try to do a new full save. Anyway when I went to play on the Xbox and after the current update and a Shattered Space update and What did I get MAJOR STUTTER! So yes, Bethesda definitely doesn’t care about their games!

I’ve been following your channel for a while. On my end, I’m not experiencing stutters — not in the vanilla game, and not even in Shattered Space. In fact, the latest Bethesda update made a night-and-day difference for me. I’d say stutters dropped by about 99%. Traversing planets with the Rover feels buttery smooth now.

Watchtower did give me some micro stutters in specific areas (like the first big warehouse), but after that, everything ran fine.

Honestly, it’s disappointing to see you go on a rant like this. If the game is triggering this level of frustration, maybe it’s time to step away and try something else. No game should make you feel this way.

I don’t think it’s just the Watchtower creation. Since the update I have been having a 100% reproducible issue in many enclosed areas on Xbox that seems to be linked to restoring save files.

For example,

1. Enter ‘The Lair of the Mantis’ & run around with no stutter.

2. Make quicksave & restore, instant stutter.

3. Exit lair by door & reenter, no stutter.

Then repeat steps 2 & 3 until you get so fed up you exit the game 🙁.

Game is almost unplayable since the update! I feel your pain though. Good ole Bugthesda

I heard about your channel on Reddit, you are good!!

I have a series s and I don’t mind the stutter, honestly the only time I notice it is when people mention it

I play on Xbox X and thankfully I have minimal stutters. The Watchtower is a 1.6 GB file and I was leery it may cause issues, load time is a little slower, I did disable a couple mods to mitigate this. One weird glitch is my ship will switch after a Watchtower battle encounter, the Star Wars Naboo ship. The other fleet commander mod causes issues when used with the Horizon Beta mod. I have noticed that if a character file has over 40 days play time, even with zero mods on the vanilla game, load times are long(10 min +) and game crashes more frequently. It’s definitely a love/hate relationship.

I’m play.
Ing with no mods right now because there was a glitch.Where I can’t buy a car, but I’m trying to enjoy with no mods and there’s no stutters.And I will mod a couple hours in.I’m just started over

Us players are frustrated every single day of the week all we want is to play a game that we like for 2 hours to 3 hours tops and chill, is that too much to ask? Nooo the game engine optimisation begins to throttle and the game stutters, even if you drop it to the lowest latency level and guess what still.
I feel your frustration Sista, internet speed isn’t a problem the screen hertz’s shouldn’t be a problem, disk space and cache is not the issue, the engine that the game is distributed internally to the external market via Xbox needs a better server or firmware fix asap.We won’t ditch Starfield we have spent countless of hours on the game since launch, (I got mine few months later) but the point here is Bethesda needs to hire a better cloud computing company for gaming distributions. Or we revolt. For Scotland!

Coming from someone on series X with over 11GB of mods installed… either you need to rearrange your load order and depending on how many mods you have installed can take some time… or you cam delete all of your mods and just reinstall them in whatever order you please and and when the game resets your mods will be in the proper order you’ll just have to be aware when your adding mods and what’s overwriting what…

Apparently I spoke too soon. Sista made the short video rant of this 😂😂😂. Listening to this while making breakfast and having coffee ☕️. Bethesda fix your stuttering!

Oh, shit! Her mic is peaking! You know she furious! Todd! You must remedy this!

So im getting stutter inside of ships. It comes and goes, and I don’t have the Watchtower mod installed

I have to wonder if constant stutters are the future of bethesda. Starfield, fallout 4 and oblivion are all getting it.

This wasn’t a Bethesda update was it? 4060 is not a great card either…

While I bought the mod, it is disabled in my load order. I want to activate it upon ng+.

I have noticed constant stutter in the starport area of neon though, and watchtower is not active. Not sure if its dripping to the city itself now.

I have freezing issue, when i use one of my ships. Just about every other jump, it freezes and i have to restart.

My truly only issue is my adoring fan, I can’t interact with him

You’re not wrong…

I’m getting it too! Mainly on planets.

I’m on series X and not experiencing any issues at all, I’m curious, you on PC version?

BGS promised, at the very least, 5 years of support and expansive updates for Starfield. But it this point it feels like BGS has simply given up on this game.

“WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!” 🤣😭🤦🏾‍♂
I haven’t installed Watchtower because of this.
I was just recently happy that the stutter disappeared in The Well, but this reemergence concerns me. I play on Xbox, and Starfield + mods is pushing the capacity of the console.
I’m convinced Bethesda doesn’t test thoroughly.

The stalls look exactly like the regular pauses I have on Bardeen III where there is a lot of animal activity. The stalls are harder than before the patch but at least they didn’t lead to a crash to desktop like such hard pauses sometimes did before the patch. The stalls didn’t persist after boarding my ship, fortunately. I’m running the game with a low-end AMD card (RX6600) and an empty load order without the Shattered Space DLC installed.

It’s not any of the mods it’s I have Watchtower and shattered space Watchtower is disabled it still stutters everywhere

Stutters every 3 seconds. As usual.
Just like it has since shattered space.

Fucking Bethesda

Remember when the Master in Doctor Who had that knocking in his head and it slowly drove him mad. That’s the stutter for for sista citizen.

Kinggath creations is a whole team so I have faith that they will put out a hot fix if there’s a problem. I have not had the issue yet

Hey Sista, the stutters have been fixed in the vanilla game, however they cant make sure every mod & load order will work well toegeher,

Your best bet is to disable all mods, check if you still have stutters. If you do then raise a ticket with BGS. If you dont then add mods back one by one until the stutters return so you can identify what is causing the issue. You run a heavily modded game and this comes with the territory unfortunately.

I also think its unfair to blame the Watchtower mod in your video title, when the issue could be due to conflcits with other mods.

So it not just works then ? ^^
The update broke my modlist so I won’t be able to play for a while anyway. I wonder if another update is coming at the xbox showcase.

First time?

They are ignoring multiple major crimson fleet quest breaking bugs for over a year so yeah! Oh and I am on Starfield because they themselves broke fallout 4, for no reason, and walked away from it

What a beautiful rant.😂 Lady we are with you

Thats bizarre… I’m not getting any stutters on my pc. Every bethesda game runs beautiful on my setup.

60 fps looks and feels like 30 fps it’s infuriating.

They have no idea what causes the stutter either lol, it’s all held together by ductape and bobbypins

Something vexes thee, I have just installed this mod, but not played since installation, you got me worried… Still love your content 😘

Stutteri and crashing..cant dock or undock. Spacestation without station..a buggy experiment. A hotfix/update must Come quick..After deleting The Watchtower mod I have no issues . A list of conflicting mods should have been listed….

I was wondering how much last update broke. Welp… I guess I wait for next one and keep on playing Oblivion for now. BETHESDA, WAKE UP!

The Engine Fixes alteration makes a difference for me.. and I run a crap 1070Ti lol

i rem a year ago..aft i updated my hardware/drivers and STILL faced stutters n crashes.. its like walking on digital eggshells. i have to savescum all the time…i gave up after awhile, realized that every1 else is STILL facing it after updates n updates n updates. should have refunded.

Do what I did, delete the junk ass game.

Agreed! 🤣😭 FFS Bethesda!! I really hope they see this and start to understand the frustration.

I’m with ya 1000% Sista! I have stutters on my ship now but not on Neon or the well. Not a good trade. Full disclosure, I did fix it by updating all my mods that creations said were available for update. I also spent a few hours rearranging my load order. But, that lasted a couple of hours. Then I landed a planet, and walking around my ship, the stutter comes back. I did not spring for the new 10$ mod. So it is something else.

Studder is on console too. So frustrating after creating a masterpiece out of mods.

I was having happen before the download on Xbox x.

Well this is the first I heard that the stutter isn’t fixed??? Haven’t seen comments on Discord. So how many people that did the update still have stutter? What is the extend of this? I haven’t made the upgrade since I’m waiting for several of SFSE Mods to be updated. But if this really happening then this is a big failure for BGS. And they should listen to folks like Sista who has promoted SF in such a positive way.

I am not getting any stuttering at this point. The only time I have had issues like this, my load order is not correct or a mod is causing it. Sorry, but the game is running very good for me.

CD PROJECT RED FIXED CYBRTPUNK 2077 AND MADE IT, ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME. STAR-FIELD SHOULD BE BETTER BY NOW

Hell has no furry as a disgruntled Sista!! Series x player running 140+ mods. After placing Watchtower before Fleet Comm. my stutter went away. Load Order-Load Order-Load Order! For me at least. I swore no more mods after Feb. cause it took months to stabilize it however, studder is gone for me now. Yea!! I love you Watchtower! I’m not happy with BGS at all but I love me some modded Starfield! I felt your pain the whole video! Best of luck with your channel and your game! Great video as usual!

Xbox player here, i didn’t get watchtower yet. However, i noticed the stutter comes back with a vengence for me when i reload a save (from in game) in places like neon or the well

I’m still cool. Running well.

After the patch the stutter is totally gone on my end.

Have you tried disabling all the mods?

Because it seems to me that its most likely one of the old that may be conflicting with whatever changes they did to fix it.

I really had it bad before the patch in some places, but now its gone in all of them.

This was really bad, as its a total pevee of mine, where it totally ruins the fun, when you have that micro-stutter every 3-4 seconds.

So try running a clean vanilla play to see if works fine.

Was really awful for me on some planets, specially with alot of avian(bird) flying around casting shadows etc, which really causes issues, now those are also fine.

Hey Sista, sorry I’m late

Install starfeld engine Fixes and in the ini set bEngineLoadOptimizer=0 to bEngineLoadOptimizer=1. That stopped the stuttering for me.

Your frustration is relatable. Thank you for getting real with it.

i know your anger i had high hopes for fallout 4 next gen they came out with the nailgun they made soo you can only get 15 nail of ammo every 48 hours

ITS 1990 fallout 4 engine its unfixable

Did you try disabling your mods? Quite a few people have seen a huge increase in performance. I’m not dismissing you, just asking if you’ve tried anything else. Maybe also try using something like MSI Afterburner to check your PC’s performance when you get the stutter.

My mod list looks like its laying in the street on MLK Boulevard, riddled with holes. I am having no changes with this update, still same stutters.

i got it girl, feel your pain. mainly when im on my ship and its sporadic

Dang Sista you’re a raging tiger when you pissed off

Im at the point in watch tower where you talk to torin about going after watchtower and now the mods not working right. Torin has been frozen on the ship in the same place and if i try to talk to him i get stuck. 😑😑😑

We gotta get things fixed up for ya 🙂

Live stream today?

Wuzzup Sis. You gotta finish the game. Found out that Fleet Command and WatchTower are compatible, but you can’t assign crew to ships that aren’t assigned by WT. Hang in there. Finish the fight, Sista. Even if Bethesda doesn’t handle the problem, the modding community can do what Bethesda can’t. 🫡

Need a better graphics card

Might need to use Luke Stackwalker to find out the cause of the stutter

Feel you sis. I hope they do better.

This is exactly how I feel with Fo4. The pausing and stutters happen to the point I can’t play the game unless it’s a vanilla play through. Been there done that. vanilla is not why we keep playing so long. That next Gen update made game breaking issues that they been avoiding to even acknowledge exist. For how long now?

Get em sista!!!!! 👏👏👏😤🤣 200% ALL FACTS!!

I feel your pain. As a long time player of modded skyrim and fallout 4 on xbox; it can be the highest of highs. It can offer you something that you can’t get anywhere else. But it can also be the lowest of lows. Weird conflicts that don’t make any sense, crashes, etc etc. Sometimes you just have to put it down for a while.

That being said; I wouldn’t be surprised if this video blows up on views.

I wasnt having any trouble until a random update popped up. It was running so smooth. Then boom.

Hmm, i don’t think WT is giving me stutter… where are you seeing it?

Preach sista

All Bethesda games studder

Haha this just made my day!