Fixing thread scheduling on Ultra 9 285K for Wuthering Waves?
Every time I unleash an ultimate with tons of particle effects, I get these micro-stutters that are honestly anxiety-inducing. The hybrid architecture of the Ultra 9 285K was dumping physics calculations onto the E-Cores, causing instruction execution times to jump wildly between 15-40ms. I tried enabling 'Game Mode' in the drivers, but that just bumped CPU usage by 3% without fixing a single frame drop—it was a frustrating loop of nothing working. I finally used a process manager to force the game's main thread affinity to the P-Cores and disabled several Intel Thread Director power-saving options in the BIOS. In RTSS, my 1% lows jumped from 45 FPS to a solid 78 FPS, and it stopped feeling like a slideshow. I did notice some background apps hanging briefly after locking the cores, but reassigning those helper processes to the E-Cores fixed it. CPU temps are sitting at 68-75℃ with power draw around 125W. The scheduling lag is gone, and the input response is finally snappy.
