Fixing processor scheduling on Soyo SY-A320D4+
Managing a large town was a nightmare; the FPS would randomly dive from 45 down to 15. It was honestly unacceptable. The Soyo SY-A320D4+ power delivery was dipping by 0.1V during heavy multi-threaded simulation, causing the CPU cores to constantly flip between low-power states. I tried the Windows 'Ultimate Performance' plan, but that just pushed my CPU to 90℃ without fixing the drops—a total waste of time. I went into the BIOS, switched the CPU power limit to Manual, locked it at 65W, and disabled C-States entirely. In AIDA64 stress tests, the frequency fluctuations narrowed from 2.1-3.6GHz to a steady 3.4-3.6GHz, and frame times settled at 22-28ms. I had two random reboots early on, but a small +0.02V offset voltage tweak fixed it. CPU temps are now hovering at 78-84℃, and the simulation runs way smoother.
