I finally made the plunge over the weekend. It didn't take me longer to realize I needed to upgrade my system. New system includes the following: Asrock Z390 Taichi motherboard, EVGA Geforce GTX 1070Ti, i7-9700K Intel processor, 16GB RAM, and a Noctua NH-U14S cpu cooler. Guess what? Game runs with all setting maxed out. Stutter is gone. My son was happy to build the system from scratch. The only thing I saved was my full tower Corsair case.