Solving Urban NPC Micro-stutters
I felt totally disconnected from the world; exploring city streets with crowds of NPCs caused irritating frame drops that killed the vibe. I first tried enabling 'Extreme Performance Mode' in the BIOS, but CPU temps spiked to 85℃ per AIDA64, causing thermal throttling that actually made the stuttering worse. I then used the GamePP Resource Scheduler to set the game process priority from Normal to Realtime and killed background apps. RTSS monitoring showed frame times converged to 15-21ms, while HWiNFO64 reported stable temps of 46-52℃ and GamePP Hardware Sensor showed latency at 92-108ns.
