I'm suffering from microlags or freezes, most notably when enemy density is high (from Unholy Cathedral 3-4 minute mark onward). The game pauses and restarts a few seconds later. while paused I cannot move the mouse or alt tab.

I'm running a 4670K and a 1070 on windows 10. I've tried the solutions found here https://neocoregames.com/en/community/hub/performance-tweaks-amp-fixes-megathread and have set all graphical settings and persistent corpses to the lowest. These are my display settings https://i.imgur.com/TrFgVLV.png https://i.imgur.com/5Rp2397.png

Sitting on the command bridge I have ~180 FPS, ~100 FPS during a mission until it freezes and then shoots back to 100 FPS again.

Am I missing some simple fix here?