I was ready to give up on Kingdom Come because of numerous issues such as quests bugging out, frame rate drops, the insanely annoying lockpicking mini-game, and so on. However, like most of us here, I was determined to find a way to play Kingdom Come because of how immersive the gameplay is and how well it replicates the medieval world. So, after many hours of searching and tweaking, I believe I have finally come up with solutions to the issues that were bothering me the most. The main issue of course would be quests that don't work properly. I went to this website to find some mods:

https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods

1. Over 100 Saved Games: (uploaded by renedo): If a quest bugs out on me, I just load up one of these saves and continue from there. For instance, I was recently stuck in The Hunt Begins because I could not mount the horse named Pebbles. So I loaded up the Hunt Begins save from this file and I could mount the horse just fine.

2. Torch Toggle Key: (uploaded by dimasnik): With this mod, I can toggle the torch instead of having to go into the inventory and equip it.

3. Unlimited Saving: (uploaded by EddieShoe): With this mod, I can save the game at any time with no problem at all.

4. Lockpicking Overhaul: (uploaded by fireundubh): This mod gets rid of the annoying lockpicking minigame. Some people might really enjoy this, but I sure don't.

5. No Reticle: (uploaded by JustAnOrdinaryGuy): This mod gets rid of that annoying yellow dot in the center of the screen.

I also made some changes to the graphics settings that seemed to have eliminated frame rate drops. I couldn't tell any difference in lowering many of these settings.

Resolution: 1920x1080
Fullscreen
Overall Image Quality: CUSTOM
HD Textures: ON
VSync: ON
Vertical FOV: 75
Antialiasing: OFF (FXAA on video card)
Object Quality: MEDIUM
Game Effects: LOW
Lighting: LOW
Particles: LOW
Physics: LOW
Postprocess Quality: LOW
Shader Quality: MEDIUM (low causes shadow flickering)
Shadows: LOW
Textures: HIGH
Water Details: HIGH
Volumetric Effects Detail: LOW
Vegetation Detail: MEDIUM
Object/LOD/Vegetation Distance: below middle
Motion Blur: OFF

I also created a user.cfg file with these settings and added "+exec user.cfg" in the target field. These figures are based on an i7-4790k eight thread four core processor, a GTX 1080 with 4GB ram, and 16GB system ram.

r_BatchType = 1
r_MultiThreaded = 1
r_TexturesStreamPoolSize = 1024
r_HDRBloom = 0
r_DepthOfField=0
r_MotionBlur = 0
r_ShadowBlur = 0
r_Sharpening = 0
r_ChromaticAberration = 0
r_Brightness = 0.5025
r_Gamma = 1.01
sys_main_CPU = 0
sys_physics_CPU = 2
sys_streaming_CPU = 4
sys_budget_videomem = 4096
sys_budget_sysmem = 16384
sys_specs = 3
ca_thread0Affinity = 0
ca_thread1Affinity = 2
e_ShadowsMaxTexRes= 512
e_ShadowsPoolSize = 512
e_StreamCgfPoolSize = 512
e_ShadowsReScale = 30
e_AutoPrecacheTexturesAndShaders = 1
e_PreloadMaterials = 1
e_PrecacheLevel = 1
e_StreamPredictionAhead = 1
g_radialBlur = 0
i_mouse_smooth = 1
i_mouse_accel = 0

Of course, there is absolutely nothing you can do about frame rate drops during large scale battles, such as the one that takes place in Baptism of Fire. Maybe get a new pc with an amazingly fast processor? Not even sure about that. However, with these mods and settings, I can finally enjoy Kingdom Come Deliverance on my current pc. Perhaps others who are tempted to give up on it might want to try some of these.

Glad you managed to enjoy it more. I am a little confused though how skipping through issues by loading up save games that supposedly come with different progress/items than what you had before helps with immersion in particular.

Loading up one of these saves is better than starting the entire game over. That's what I would have to do in order to fix the horse issue I was having in the Hunt Begins. No matter what I did, I could not mount the horse Pebbles. Even when I went back to an earlier save and replayed a large portion of the game, I still could not mount that horse. However, when I loaded up one of the saves from the mod, I could mount the horse and continue the main quest. It didn't matter that much to me that I had a different inventory than I had previously.

Also Trent2501, I edited my previous post regarding the fixes. Can you delete that portion from your post? thanks!