Why does my Ryzen 9700X feel glitchy in Titanfall 3?
The scheduling logic on this 9700X feels like a coin toss. I was getting 200 FPS on average, but these random 30ms spikes every few seconds were driving me insane. It's a classic AMD issue where threads jump between CCXs during high-frequency instructions, wrecking the L3 cache hit rate. I tried disabling SMT, but that tanked my multi-threaded performance by 15% and didn't actually fix the feel—just a different kind of lag. I eventually used a process affinity tool to force the game's main thread onto physical cores 0-3 and disabled core parking. In RTSS, the jagged frame time graph finally smoothed out into a straight line, with fluctuations limited to 3-5ms. I did have a brief system hang during the first lock-in attempt until I reallocated the background services. CPU usage is now a steady 45-60% at 62-71℃. Exported logs show fan speeds holding at 1400-1600RPM.
