ok tried it again just 5 mins ago, indeed a restart of the game was necessary. Game just feels so much quicker, but the difference isnt in the max frames but undoubtedly in average frames, game feels as fast as older fps games.. its honestly very impressive

Yea no stutter nor pauses for me, and I was just in Zavod 64 full server

it does seem like the image quality is different though on close inspection i couldnt really tell if there was quality loss/gain but it does look slightly different