Can I fix the frame drops in Phantom Blade Zero using BIOS tweaks?
In the middle of these high-speed slash attacks, the frame rate was jumping around like an EKG monitor—it was a joke. The L3 cache hit rate on my ASUS TUF GAMING B760M-PLUS D4 was tanking during heavy particle effects, leaving the CPU just waiting on memory. I tried turning off all ambient occlusion in-game, but the graphics looked like a PS2 game and I only gained 4 FPS, which was just pathetic. I went into the BIOS, ripped off the CPU power limits, and enabled the high-frequency memory profile. HWInfo showed the core clocks stopped swinging between 3.5 - 4.8GHz and settled into a stable 4.4 - 4.6GHz range. I actually pushed the overclock too far at one point and the system just froze on the loading screen, so I had to dial the voltage offset back to default. VRM temps are sitting at 68 - 75℃ and RAM is at 52 - 58℃. I exported the logs to verify the frequency curves, and with fans at 1400 - 1600 RPM, the stutters are finally gone.
