A little more on this. I don’t know if you’ve seen this thread
For some reason in this version of the engine, there is a constant hitch during play, about .5 seconds. The @zeaf solution does seem to help this, and involves the loader. Here’s what that hitch looks like in insights
Curiously, turning off streaming does also fix the hitch.
I haven’t had the problem with miniature textures for a while though, so unable to see what effect these have on that, but this all seems related… I’m not sure how useful this info is 