So after waiting months for patches to fix this game I finally got the game in a playable state.
I was so excited to play this day one, having to put it aside to wait on patches to make it playable made me very sad. Don't think the latest patch made much difference (although past patched definitely improved things) but I have done enough tweaking to find a sweet spot I can play on.
For a little while I started thinking about just getting the PS4 version for my PS4 Pro, even though it only runs at 30fps. However I have it running pretty well now, and unquestionable superior to the PS4 Pro verson. I still get some stutters but it is certainly very playable. Just should be better with my specs.
Played 6 hours last night and the game is amazing. Such a shame the performance is so bad. I also ended up having to turn off Rivia RTSS, because while it gave me better frame pacing and reduced stutters (the biggest issue I have), it caused the game to crash every 15-20 minutes
Here is my set up -
CPU - i7-4770K
GPU - GTX 1080
RAM - 16GB
Installed to an SSD
My settings -
Resolution - 2560x1440 (lower resolutions made very little difference!)
Everything at Ultra except Shadows at Very High (tried several things lower based on the recommended settings but it didn't seem to make any difference).
HBAO+ ON - Off gives a slight reduction in stutters, but at a large IQ cost.
AA - TXAAx1 - Sharpness 7 (FXAA looks horrible and gives no performance boost I could tell)
Everything else ON
Border less Window mode (seems to reduce frame pacing issues)
Triple buffering ON - Off causes game to lock at 30fps for me!!!
V-Sync OFF - Forced ON in Nvidia control panel for better frame pacing
Adaptive Resolution OFF - Does not work well and introduces more stutters
FPS limiter 60 - Not sure if this makes any difference
And finally I use Reshade 3.0 with adaptive sharpness to remove the Vaseline filter the game suffers from. I also use Ambient Light and Colourfulness (both slightly turned down). Gives the game a much richer colour palette. Honestly the MASSIVE difference this makes to the IQ in the game is incredible, without Reshade 3.0 the game looks drab and blurry even at 1440p!