Is the ASUS Z890-A Snow causing stutters in Dragon's Dogma 2?
Walking into a main town is a disaster; my FPS plummeted from 80 to 35 in seconds, and the anxiety was real. The default scheduling on the ASUS ROG STRIX Z890-A Snow was fighting over P-Core and E-Core resources during heavy AI calculations, causing execution delays of 20-30ms. I tried enabling 'Ultimate Performance' in Windows, but the CPU hit 98℃ and throttled immediately—a total rookie mistake that left me feeling defeated. I eventually went into the BIOS Advanced menu, switched Load-Line Calibration to L2 mode, and pinned the game's main thread to the first four cores. RTSS showed frame times tightening from 28-45ms down to 12-16ms. I actually blue-screened a few times because I set the Vcore too low, but it finally stabilized at 1.25V. CPU temps now hover around 72-78℃. After five city stress tests, the lag is gone and the input feels instant.
