Mortal Kombat 1 – FPS Drop During Combos on Intel Gen 12/13 Solution

September 23, 2023 Volodymyr Azimoff 0

I noticed my FPS drop to 52-54 during combos even though I get 59+ stable FPS during benchmark on any graphics preset, including low or ultra.

Dynamic Thread Priority

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Apparently, MK1 uses e-cores on intel CPUs, which leads to stuttering.

It is possible to disable e-cores in BIOS (and it worked for me), however having to do so just to play MK sucks.

There is a way around it, however.

You can download Process Lasso and either disable e-cores for the MK process in the CPU affinity->always section, or, which is a better way, disable Windows dynamic thread priority boosts, as seen on the screenshot.

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I love games and I live games. Video games are my passion, my hobby and my job. My experience with games started back in 1994 with the Metal Mutant game on ZX Spectrum computer. And since then, I’ve been playing on anything from consoles, to mobile devices. My first official job in the game industry started back in 2005, and I'm still doing what I love to do.