How to fix Intel i5-14600KF thread scheduling in Metaphor: ReFantazio?
This is just ridiculous—my frame rate would drop from 140 to 60 in a simple walking scene. It totally defied logic. I found that the default scheduling was dumping heavy tasks onto the E-cores while the P-cores were just sitting there idling. I tried disabling the E-cores entirely, but that was a mistake—the whole system became sluggish and some apps started crashing, so I backed off immediately. Instead, I went into the deep BIOS menus and manually set the core scheduling priority to Performance, then locked the minimum processor state to 100% in the Windows power plan. Looking at the frame time graphs, the wild spikes finally flattened out, and my frame times stabilized at 6-10ms. My idle power draw jumped by about 10W at first, but I managed to mitigate that by tweaking the E-core sleep states. The CPU now runs at 60-66℃, and the input response is finally snappy and precise.
