How to optimize Ryzen 7 9700X thread scheduling for BioShock 4?
Moving through the underwater city was great until the smoothness just vanished, replaced by a nasty 150ms delay that's lethal in a fight. The 9700X was struggling with asymmetric loads; some cores were pinned at 5.5GHz while others were idling, creating massive wait times. I tried enabling 'Game Mode' in Windows, but that just slowed down my background apps and did zero for the lag—I was honestly tempted to just throw the PC out the window. I dove into the BIOS, set the PBO curve to -20, and locked my RAM at 6000MHz. In AIDA64, memory latency dropped from 72ns to 64ns, and the game finally felt responsive. I did have a brief black screen on boot after enabling PBO, which I fixed by nudging the voltage back to 1.1V. Temps are now between 68-75℃. Resource allocation is finally optimized.
