Why is my i7 14700KF stuttering in Where Winds Meet?
When I first jumped into the open world, galloping through the mountains felt great until the screen would just freeze for a fraction of a second. In a fight, that kind of hitching is absolutely lethal. Looking at the telemetry, the P-Cores on my Intel Core i7 14700KF weren't even maxed out; instead, the OS was dumping critical tasks onto the E-Cores, causing an erratic 12-18ms spike in the instruction chain. I tried a scorched-earth approach by disabling all Efficiency cores in the BIOS, but that was a mistake—my overall multi-core performance tanked by 15%, and my frame rate in crowded hubs plummeted from 90 FPS down to 62 FPS. Not a viable move. Instead, I used a process affinity tool to force the game's main process onto the first 8 Performance cores and locked the minimum processor state to 100% in the Power Plan. Monitoring via HWMonitor showed core voltages stabilizing between 1.22V - 1.28V with temps sitting in a healthy 68℃ - 74℃ range. I actually hit a brief system hang right after the first bind, which only cleared up after I reloaded my XMP profile. Checking the frame time graphs, the peaks were crushed from 22ms down to about 8.5ms. After a brutal stress test, the frame generation time finally locked in at 5.1ms - 6.4ms. It's rock steady now, though the setup process was a bit of a nightmare.
