Why does Ghostwire: Tokyo take forever to load on an i5-13490F?
When the loading bar hit 99% and just sat there for ten seconds, I knew the CPU's power saving was messing things up. It was actually kind of exciting to finally dive into some extreme optimization. The E-Cores on the i5-13490F were responding too slowly during the boot phase, causing a 200ms idle delay while the main thread waited for synchronization. I tried cleaning out my startup apps, but saving one second of boot time didn't fix the in-game stutters—it was like trying to put out a forest fire with a water pistol. I went into the BIOS, disabled C-State deep sleep, and set the minimum processor state to 100% in the power plan. Boot time to the main menu dropped from 25 seconds to 12 seconds. My idle power draw jumped by 15W, which made the fans ramp up until I recalibrated the fan curve. CPU temps stay between 38-45℃. Switching the disk mode to high performance kept my frame times stable at 5.1-6.4ms.
