Its more a security concern I have, Vanguard gives itself ring 0 access. Nothing apart from windows needs that much.
https://www.baeldung.com/cs/os-rings#1-ring-0
I feel it would be difficult to hide anything from it at that level
I also feel its way too much control to give something that is only there for one game. Vanguard thinks it owns the PC and you have to do what it says. It can block other programs from running.
drivers only get ring 1 access.
If vanguard believed what system told it, it wouldn't need Ring 0. Then you could maybe fake it, but the battle against piracy and cheating has led to point where they have to fully control PC to let you install the game and play it. Who do you blame? its an arms race and where does the paying customer draw the line? (if its free, this is a difficult line to draw)
I wouldn't play game myself. The only answer is to not do it... I feel its way too much to expect for one game.
Are you sure stutters were ftpm?
I was getting one a week and it turned out to be latency. Seemingly caused by GPU drivers.
have you run this?
https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon