Tuning i7-14700KF core scheduling for Final Fantasy XVI?
The summons look incredible, but my frame rate was tanking from 90 FPS down to 35 FPS in an instant—it was honestly nerve-wracking. The P-cores on my i7-14700KF were screaming, but some E-cores were bogged down with background tasks, causing thread scheduling latency to bounce between 12-28ms. I tried setting Windows to High Performance, which bumped the clock by 0.1GHz but didn't stop the drops; it felt like a waste of time. I eventually dove into the BIOS, switched the Load-Line Calibration (LLC) to L2 mode, and set a Vcore offset of +0.05V to keep things stable under load. Monitoring with RTSS, my frame times tightened up from a chaotic 25ms to a steady 11-14ms. I actually pushed the voltage too far on my first try and hit 100℃ instantly, triggering a thermal throttle, so I had to dial it back to 1.32V. Now my cores sit between 78-85℃. Stress tests confirm the scheduling is fixed, and the input lag is gone—it feels way more responsive.
