Frame stutters - what are the causes?

[Hellbender]

I encounter these stutters occasianally in Multiplayer, when a 109 is very close to me. Therefore, I suspect this is related to the netcode of CoD, when your FPS drop from 50 down to 5 in a dogfight, sometimes with smoke and then without it. Also sometimes AI bombers create these unpleasant stutters ingame druing a MP session.

[fruitbat]

superb optimisation.

[Insuber]

Oleg insisted to model the exact trajectory of each smoke particle, including Brownian motion and integration of the Navier-Stokes equations. This gave a hard time even to the 11000 Petaflops Riken supercomputers taken by beta-testers as the average simmers' rig. Oleg was seen leaving the building mumbling about two more weeks for the optimization of the Navier Stokes integration.

Et voila what gives your stutter today.

[Tavingon]

Mostly smoke, when u shatter an enemy aircraft the frame rate goes to pieces

[BPickles]

German A/C give me at least 10% lower fps than any British A/C. The Blenheim gives me best FPS of all the aircraft I tested under the same conditions.