Tried new patch just. No discernible difference in performance or LOD pop in that I can see. i.e. no improvements. Not started game properly yet, just bezzing round the first village testing stuff really. If anything, dare I say it, it felt slightly more stuttery than it did, until I'd run around for a bit and felt like everything had 'cached' in. Hmmm
I like the new AA settings choice though. There's only 3 but The best one seems to be the top one - SMAA 2TX - what is that!? I'm familiar with SMAA and TXAA, is this some sort of hybrid?
Also, it's just downloaded another update. Tiny one at 14.7MB. What's that then???? EDIT - just done another quick test bez around the village after this wee second update. Totally smooth and stutter free. Either they just landed a very important further tiny update or perhaps my previous patch install didn't fully work and steam had to download a few missing files?
Either way, seems good now smoothness/ lack of stutter wise, in the first village at least.
EDIT 2 - sorry to bang on about this, but if that new second mini update was new, it's really made it butter smooth. Just done a 5 minute bez round the first village and not one single stutter or hitch. Lovely stuff!