How to fix i5-13490F thread scheduling in Gears 5?
Whenever I swapped cover quickly, the frame rate would tank from 120 to 85 FPS, and that inconsistency totally messed up my aim. Monitoring showed the i5-13490F was distributing the physics load poorly—some cores were pinned at 100% while others were just idling. I tried disabling power-saving options in the BIOS, but that just raised temps by 5℃ without fixing the stutters. I finally used a process scheduler to bind the game specifically to the physical P-cores and switched my Windows power plan to Ultimate Performance. In RivaTuner, the frame time spikes of 8-16ms flattened out to 7-11ms. I actually tried overclocking to 4.8GHz before this, but the system blue-screened after an hour of play, which was a huge letdown. The CPU now stays between 65-72℃. Final verification shows the frame generation is consistent, and RAM temps are stable at 58-63℃.
