How to fix resource scheduling lag on Maxsun B850ITX in Silent Hill 2?
The loading times in this game were an absolute joke, and the thermal limits of an ITX board only made it worse. The Maxsun B850ITX was struggling with high-res model loads, forcing the system to swap to a slow page file, which created 30-60ms of I/O latency. I tried lowering the texture quality, but the game just looked blurry and the stutters were still there—it was a completely useless attempt that left me feeling pretty frustrated. I eventually manually expanded the virtual memory to 32GB, forced it onto a dedicated NVMe partition, and disabled the Windows Indexing service. RTSS showed the 1% lows climbing from 12 FPS to 35-42 FPS, and the scene transitions became way smoother. I did notice the system took about 8 seconds longer to boot after the change, but turning off 'Fast Startup' fixed that. CPU temps are sitting at 70-78°C. I took a system snapshot of these settings so I don't lose them, and the CPU temp remains stable at 70-78°C.
