I’ve posted them all before and nothing works. The issue of CPU handling by Windows 10 and Darktide is what I found from another thread with the same CPU.
Using process lasso to make Darktide process exclude E cores, won’t be same as turning it off completely in BIOs. Best to turn off E cores in BIOs. Benefit is that it pushes up your ring clock automatically which leads to latency improvement by doing BIOs way and gives thermal benefit to P cores to hold clocks for longer.
That way Windows 10 completely will see it as normal hyperthreading 8 core CPU
I use process lasso but not to interact with Darktide. I use it to set background non windows apps like MSI Afterburner, Dropbox etc to use only the last vCPU. But I leave Darktide as it is and I also turn off that Pro Balance feature in process lasso. I’m using it to prevent background non windows apps from interfering, rather than trying to prioritise the game.
Next in graphic settings. All those sliders from Scatter Density onwards. Put them to lowest. They are CPU impact.
When you move to Windows 11 next year or so. Then can re-enable E Cores.
Windows 10 even latest feature version, still lacks Windows 11 thread director to handle E Core I’m afraid.
I only used process lasso because MSI Afterburner was causing game stutter. So I set MSI Afterburner to use the last vCPU only. But I turn off pro balance in process lasso and never change game processes with it.
Just don’t turn off E cores in windows 11. Causes performance loss when hyperthreading is still enabled. When you upgrade to windows 11 turn on E cores.
You’re correct. It will hurt performance in other multi-threaded CPU intensive games like real-time racing, simulation, flight, paradox games, large environments. Games like Last of us 2 can even scale to 16 core.
Basically games that actually take advantage of additional cores.
So really it is for small environment first person shooters. Probably would hurt performance in Battlefield games due to large environment and very multi threaded game. Depends what other games you play.
Thanks for the info. I’ll just try it out, but most likely it will still be good in those games too, as I usually set settings up for perfomance anyway.