Stabilizing Intel Core i5-14600KF scheduling for Tekken 8?
Seeing my 1% Lows finally stabilize above 120 FPS was an incredible feeling; that instant responsiveness is the whole point of a fighting game. Before this, the P-Cores and E-Cores on the 14600KF were fighting over physics calculations, causing instructions to jump between cores constantly. I tried enabling 'Ultimate Performance' in Windows, but the CPU just spiked to 95℃ without fixing the drops—a classic case of treating the symptom, not the disease. I went into the BIOS and manually locked PL1 and PL2 power limits to 180W and disabled C-State energy saving. In RTSS, the frame time jitter dropped from 10-40ms to a steady 8-14ms, and the combat finally felt fluid. I actually overshot the voltage offset at first, which caused random restarts during idle, but pulling it back to +0.01V solved it. CPU temps are now 72-78℃ with a balanced load across all cores. 3DMark CPU test confirms the scheduling is optimized. Mode switch successful.
