ForeverZ3RO

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll check on the USB power setting. I'll update accordingly. If someone has more suggestions though, let me know. Thanks!

I've tried a couple different BIOS versions and I've also installed and updated all chipset drivers for the motherboard as well as USB.

You're definitely having the exact same issue I'm having! Same GPU and CPU usage drops and everything. I've tried a TON of things and nothing has helped.

It isn't the "joystick". It's any controller type peripheral being used other than the mouse and keyboard. My question is, since i guess it wasn't already obvious, is if anyone has seen this issue and knows of a fix... All of my drivers are up to date.

I have an interesting problem with DCS World that I'll try to explain as best I can. I first installed DCS World 1.2 at the request of a friend. I installed the game on this machine: Windows 8.1 x64 Gigabyte G1. Sniper B6 Motherboard GTX 970 Asus Strix 4GB Intel I5-4590 120 PNY XLR8 SSD 16GB G. Skill Ripjaw 600w Corsair CX600M PSU Logitech 3D Pro Extreme joystick Saitek X52 throttle TrackIR4 Once I tried playing, I would constantly get micro stutters every couple of seconds (regardless what graphic settings I had it on). I tried multiple suggestions from different forums (pretty sure I've read EVERY performance issue thread). After working on it for a couple of months, I could never get it working. I waited a while to try again after I upgraded to Windows 10. Same issue. Even after upgrading my CPU to an Intel I7-4790k, the issue still persists. I decided to wait until DCS World 1.5 released to see if that hopefully fixed the issue. Once it came out a couple of days ago, I installed it on my machine and am still having the same issues. Wanting to make 100% sure it wasn't a software issue, I clean installed Windows 10 on my SSD and ONLY installed my GPU drivers and the game still stutters every couple of seconds. Finally, I found what I think is the issue though. If I launch the game without my stick and throttle, it runs fine. Perfect even. Plug just the stick in or just the throttle, stutters like crazy. I even recently tried it with an Xbox controller and it still stutters. So I've tried multiple operating systems, multiple GPU drivers, 2 different CPUs and the only thing I can come up with is the peripherals. Here is my current build: Windows 10 PRO x54 Gigabyte G1. Sniper B6 motherboard Intel I7-4790k GTX 970 Asus Strix 4GB 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws 120GB PNY XLR8 SSD 600W Corsair CX600M PSU Logitech 3D PRO Extreme joystick Saitek X52 throttle TrackIR4 I hope I have explained this well enough and I really appreciate you guys taking the time to read this short novel I've posted. Thanks, FZ3RO