#StarCitizen #PCgaming #12900K

(Special shout-outs to Kingston, HP OMEN, EKWB, MSI, Lian Li, Arctic for making this Star Citizen gaming build possible! Full review coming soon!)

The Intel i9-12900K is an extremely fast processor for gaming, however due to it's big core little core nature, some games don't perform as well as they try to use the little efficiency cores as if they are normal cores. For Star Citizen for example, they can lead to game breaking stuttering. There are a number of potential fixes depending on your system configuration.

This video shows the major fix that will work for all 12900K systems having issues (as long as you can access the bios)

There are programs that do something like this which will "park" the cores in Windows 11 but I found that it doesn't solve the issue, but it does help performance.

You can also alter the affinity in Task Manager but this is annoying as you have to do this every time you turn on your PC.

Adjusting C-States & Speed Shift in the BIOS does help for some hardware configurations and potentially solves the issue but it only reduced the problem for my system.

The main fix is to just disable the E Cores entirely in the BIOS and let your 12900K be an 8 core 16 thread CPU w/ out the E Cores getting in the way. This gives better gaming performance but reduces "workload" performance as seen in a large drop in a Cinebench R23 score for example, BUT it's still a very fast CPU regardless.

Intel i9-12900K
64GB DDR5 Kingston FURY BEAST RAM
x4 2TB Kingston RENEGADE PCIe 4.0 m.2 (8TB Total)
MSI MAG Z690 TORPEDO EK X Motherboard
ROG STRIX RTX 3090 (4K Gaming on HP OMEN 27u 144Hz Display)
HP OMEN RTX 3080 (Running extra displays while 3090 is gaming)
EKWB hardware for water cooling
Lian Li 011 Dynamic EVO case
Arctic P12 A-RGB Fans
Thermaltake Fittings
Logitec x52 Pro HOTAS
ROG STRIX SCOPE RX Keyboard