Should I tweak i5-14600KF scheduling for Delta Force?
It was a nightmare; in the middle of a massive firefight, my FPS would tank from 120 to 65 in seconds, and the anxiety was real. The default scheduling on the i5-14600KF was fighting over P-Core and E-Core resources during heavy physics calcs, causing execution delays of 22-35ms. I tried the 'Ultimate Performance' power plan first, but that was a rookie mistake—my CPU hit 98℃ and thermal throttled immediately. I went back into the BIOS, switched the load-line voltage from Auto to L3 mode, and manually pinned the main game thread to the P-cores. In RTSS, my frame times stopped swinging between 25-42ms and locked in at 11-15ms. I actually undervolted too far at one point and got a BSOD on boot, but bumping it back to 1.22V stabilized everything. Temps are now hovering between 75-81℃. After five stress tests in the heat of battle, the stutter is dead and the input lag is gone.
