Probably going to throw in the towel

I have a 4070 Ti with the latest 566.36 drivers in the Nvidia app. It wants to work so bad, but the stuttering makes it unplayable. I've turned off the HAGs everyone is talking about, played with bit rates, resolutions, encoders, and different clients. Even switched to Artemis/Apollo client/server and used a dummy hdmi.

The thing is I also get stutters in steam link as well with a little more info in the steam link stream with steam link reporting "slow encode" with 0 network frame drops.

I am wired on both host and onn android tv client through ethernet and have Deco wifi 7, 2.5gbs mesh routers. Wifi 6 on my phone client and both have the same stuttering spike error that makes the stream unplayable. So I'm at a loss and probably just going to throw in the towel on this project. I can't think of anything else to change at this point.