Require help troubleshooting consistent Battlefield 4 micro-stutter

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Hello forum!

I’ve been playing Battlefield 4 for a good amount of months now, and hopefully building up a nice and big shader cache.
Now, I’m well aware shaders being compiled causes stutter during runtime, but even on maps I’ve played over 10, if not more hours on I still get this hitching - as if my shader cache isn’t being used
On some maps, the hitches are slightly longer. The stuttering is usually 250ms long, every 3 seconds.

Here's a video of a worst case scenario map: https://youtu.be/gMQDr2kvVOA?t=114

I do not have this issue in other games I play, both native/Windows games via Wine, or Battlefield 4 natively on Windows.
My system info via inxi: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/67vRr3vssf/

Thing is I’ve seen people get this game running 100% smoothly with Wine, and I really want to figure out if my machine can do that as well

This is how I run the game:

• Origin overlay and telemetry is disabled
• With -notexturestreaming arg
• With Feral Gamemode
• DXVK, esync & fsync
• Windows version set to Windows 10

Here are my env. variables for BF4:

• Nvidia GPU is reported to the game via DXVK.
• __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE=1
• __GL_SHADER_DISK_CACHE_SKIP_CLEANUP=1
• __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=1

Furthermore, unsuccessfully tried the following things:

• Disabling write permissions for AppData/Roaming/Origin
• Disabling desktop composition
• Reporting an AMD GPU via DXVK
• Using 200% resolution scaling in game to increase GPU usage
• Setting "prefer max performance" in the Nvidia settings GUI
• Tested on Manjaro, Xanmod, Zen and Liquorix kernels
• Setting CPU governor to performance
• STAGING_SHARED_MEMORY=1 and 0
• DXVK-NVAPI (With WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“dxgi,nvapi,nvapi64,nvml=n”)
• Tried playing without DXVK, and it still had the exact same stutter at the exact same rate. So I believe DXVK isn't the issue.
• Tried setting Windows version to 7 and 8.1

DXVK versions I tried:

• v1.9.1L
• v1.9.1
• v1.9L-8b6ac52
• v1.9L-async
• v1.9L
• v1.8.1L
• v1.7.1L

Wine versions I tried (64 bit prefix):

• lutris-ge-6.14
• lutris-6.14
• lutris-6.13
• Staging-6.13
• lutris-ge-6.12
• lutris-6.12
• Staging-6.12

I feel like I’ve tried every solution out there in the solar system!
Also, because of how disabling DXVK still shows the game having the same consistent stutter, I believe there might be a problem with how networking is handled, or maybe CPU? I just don't know, really.

And last but not least, if its of any interest here’s the Lutris log, where I launch Battlefield 4, join a server, run around a bit and then leave. The terminal didn’t output anything while I was playing, but who knows. It’s insanely long tho: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/26sXsszK5P/

So, any tips? Did I miss any things I could try to troubleshoot this further? Thanks in advance everyone!!

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This issue has been resolved!

I thought to try playing on Manjaro again, and with the EA App and Wine 6.19-GE instead of Origin + whatever Wine version I was using then it works flawlessly.
That being said, I've had to downgrade from the 2060 to 1060; I'm not sure if the change in graphics card is what fixed it, but I can't imagine.

Anyone with this issue, try the following or a similar config:
- Wine-GE-6.19-1, DXVK + D3D Extras + DXVK NVAPI + Esync + Fsync enabled in Lutris.
- Use the EA App, not Origin.
- In Lutris, configure Battlefield 4 -> System options tab, put the following in the "Include processes" field:

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bf4.exe EADesktop.exe BF_Launcher.exe

Curious if this helps anyone!