Skate 3 Goes Sloth Speed at One Mission

I have heard of this happening in free skate, but performance in career mode is fine. The game isn't playable so issues are to be expected. I'd use auto spu threads for skate 3 to be honest and why do you have frame skip on? And why is zcull disabled? The recent changes by kd seen in august heavily improved performance in skate 3 by optimizing zcull, I wouldn't disable it. You also have a CPU with 12 threads, you shouldn't be using "lower spu thread priority" ever.

Also never use GPU texture scaling, it can cause some issues with a few games and doesn't really provide any performance gain. Wait... you have the audio renderer set to "null" as well? why?...