How to optimize thread scheduling for Valorant on MSI Z890 EDGE TI?
The CPU scheduling on this board felt like a coin toss—one second it's screaming on the P-cores, the next it's banished to the E-cores. In a game like Valorant that lives and dies by single-core speed, the MSI Z890 EDGE TI's auto-scheduling was a total nightmare, with FPS bouncing wildly between 400 and 220. I tried enabling Windows Game Mode, but that did nothing but make my background updates more aggressive. I eventually used a process manager to force the game to bind only to physical cores 0-7 and completely blocked the E-cores. In the performance analyzer, the frame time went from a jagged 2-5ms mess to a smooth 2.1ms. I actually made it worse at first by forgetting to disable Hyper-Threading, which caused resource contention and dropped my FPS to 180 until I turned SMT off. CPU temps stayed between 62-75℃ with a peak draw of 145W. I exported the logs and the fans stayed steady at 1400-1600RPM.
