Fixing Intel i5-13490F scheduling issues in Like a Dragon Ishin?
During intense battles in the streets of Kyoto, my frame rate was swinging wildly between 60 and 45 FPS—it was honestly pathetic. The i5-13490F's clock speeds were jumping erratically between 3.2-4.8GHz, forcing the game's physics threads to migrate across cores constantly. I first tried 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but the CPU temp spiked to 92℃ without fixing the FPS swings, which was just infuriating. I then went into the BIOS, manually locked both PL1 and PL2 power limits to 125W, and disabled C-State power saving. In Cinebench R23, multi-core scores stabilized around 21,000, and frame times tightened to 16-18ms. I did run into two random reboots while messing with the power limits, which I only fixed by adding a slight voltage offset of +0.05V. CPU temps now sit comfortably at 72-78℃ with the fan at 2100 RPM. I exported the BIOS config to save these settings, and the input response now feels snappy and direct.
