How risky is disabling APM in the BIOS? It seems this is the only way of preventing crazy frame rate drops in Doom.
I already updated my drivers and tried lowering the settings in the game, but nothing else seems to have any effect.
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It's not risky at all. Do it.
Check your cpu voltages and clocks beforehand and see if they're affected in any regard. If I were you I'd go to power management in windows and use the performance profile (yyes I know you're on a desktop).
>>54892159
what exactly am I looking for when checking the cpu voltages and clocks?
>>54892414
A reference. Power saving/management keeps cpus at low voltages/clocks whenever possible. But you may have some trouble like when it keeps the clock/voltage high (or fixed) when idle. Again though, it's most likely due to your power profile on windows being on 'balanced' if anything. Otherwise you might either want to overclock or assign adaptive mode for your chips voltage from bios if you see that the cpu isn't cutting it on stock.
>>54892522
thanks for this detailed information. Could changing my power profile from "balanced" to "high performace" already solve my frame rate problem? I guess I could just try it out
>>54891699
Yeah turn off any power saving features
or cool n quiet features in BIOS and then use high performance mode in power settings in control panel. Then go into your AMD setting and make sure power saving is turned off too.
