Thank you Narelle, I have a good and a bad new…the good first 
I have been playing less than a week, I had no idea about the “Followers” tab, I probably looked at it in the beginning when it was still empty (I had no followers then), presumed it was something about online gaming…and now I see how helpful this one is, got my dancer back. This is rather interesting, the spot she was stuck in was the one we were just before I teleported back to the base (and she came along with me), looks like after I dismissed her, she went back there, “dancing with wolves”.
For the bad new, the Engine.ini you are referring to is not the good one, at least not on the Testive version, which I play on. As per the official post here, you need to look under …\Conan Exiles Client\ConanSandbox\Config, and there, you need to open now DefaultEngine.ini. Most people will figure this out, but it would be nice the site managers update the instructions.
…so this means the stuttering is still on, fairly continuous in my case. Yes I am on a SSD, a dedicated one for the games. Search the net on this issue, you will see it has always been there since the beginning, and I saw some answers from the devs, “they work hard on this”, since forever. Beside this official post, I have not found anything else yet to look at, folks are just repeating themselves in telling to update the drivers (when they have nothing else to write…). Talking about AI scripts, I’ll do a test, put all those thralls in a crate, I have about 15 in total (those on the benches, 4 followers, and tonight I added two pets), then see if it helps.
Cheers, and thank you again for that tab!!