How to fix thread scheduling lag for i5-13490F in Atomic Heart?
Whenever I trigger massive physics collisions in the factory areas, the game just hitches for about 0.3 seconds. It's an incredibly jarring feeling that ruins the combat flow. The hybrid architecture of the i5-13490F was basically messing up, assigning critical game tasks to the E-Cores, which pushed response latency into the 15-22ms range and choked the rendering engine. I tried disabling all background indexing services in Windows, but that did absolutely nothing for the underlying scheduling, which was honestly pretty stressful. I eventually went into the BIOS, disabled the low-power states in power management, and used the system process manager to force the game's affinity to the P-Cores only. Checking RTSS, the frame time spikes that were jumping between 16-40ms flattened out to a steady 11-15ms, and the freezes vanished. I did get a random Blue Screen on the first boot after locking the cores, but adding a 0.02V voltage offset stabilized everything. CPU temps are hovering around 68-75℃. Performance tools confirm the instruction execution time is much shorter now, and the setup is locked in.