Is the i5-13490F causing stutters in Deathloop?
During heavy scene interactions, my FPS would just dive from 120 down to 55 for no reason, making the gunplay feel incredibly clunky. It turns out the i5-13490F was dumping the main render thread onto the E-cores, causing instruction latency to swing wildly between 12-25ms. My first instinct was to just disable all E-cores in the BIOS, and while the stutters stopped, my background recording software just died instantly. That extreme approach just made me more anxious. Instead, I used a process scheduler to force the game's main thread onto P-cores 0-5 and switched my Windows power plan to Ultimate Performance. Looking at the monitoring panel, my frame times tightened up from a messy 7-22ms range to a very clean 6.2-8.5ms. I did hit a snag where the CPU spiked to 85-90℃ immediately after binding the cores, but a slight voltage offset of -0.03V brought it back down to 75-82℃. Clock speeds are now steady at 4.8GHz with a balanced load. Benchmark tests show the scheduling is finally stable, and the mouse response feels snappy again.
