Fixing i5 14600KF thread scheduling for Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
Whenever I cast a wide-area spell, there's this tiny 15ms hitch that just breaks the flow of combat. The i5 14600KF's E-cores were hitting a scheduling bottleneck during physics calculations, meaning some cores were pinned at 100% while the P-cores were just chilling. I tried the Windows High Performance power plan, which helped P-core response, but the E-core physics lag stayed exactly the same—it was a pretty hopeless feeling. I finally dove into the BIOS advanced voltage settings, switched Load-Line Calibration from Auto to Manual (L3 mode), and nudged the VCCSA voltage to 1.25V. Cinebench R23 scores jumped from 23500 to 24800, with temps staying between 78-84℃. I did have one instant reboot when I first set the LL, but backing the offset down from +0.02V to +0.01V made it stable. Thread scheduling is now perfectly synced, though RAM is running a bit hot at 58-63℃.
