Why is my Intel Ultra 9 285K stuttering in Star Wars Outlaws?
While flying through the city, I noticed these tiny hitches in the movement—really obvious at 4K. The Ultra 9 285K's new architecture was dumping physics tasks onto the E-Cores, leaving P-Cores at 40% while E-Cores were pinned at 95% - 100%. I tried the 'High Performance' power plan in Windows, but it did absolutely nothing for the stutters; software toggles can't fix bad scheduling. I went into the BIOS, switched the thread policy to 'Performance First', and manually disabled two of the less efficient cores. RivaTuner's frame time graph went from a messy 8-32ms to a clean