How to optimize i5-14600KF for Sword and Fairy 7?
It's honestly ridiculous that a CPU of this caliber was giving me micro-stutters in the upgraded Sword and Fairy; it felt like I was playing on a decade-old laptop. The P-cores and E-cores on the i5-14600KF were hitting 15-25ms scheduling delays during specific rendering tasks, causing frame times to jump between 18-32ms. I tried maxing out the graphics settings, but that just increased the stutter frequency—a complete waste of time. I finally went into the BIOS, disabled C-State deep sleep, and forced the game process affinity to stay within the P-core range. RTSS monitoring showed frame times tighten up from 22-38ms to a consistent 10-14ms, making the gameplay feel incredibly fluid. I did have a moment where my browser froze in the background after locking the cores, but changing the priority to 'High' instead of 'Realtime' stabilized everything. Core temps stayed around 65-72℃. Exported all the scheduling error logs from the Event Viewer to confirm the fix.
