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If I use Process Lasso with "Performance Mode" (no core parking) and I force efficiency mode off for all games, some games will actually start using E cores and I get less stuttering. Can someone compare this to APO?
This is already tested in this video indirectly. Near the end of the video you can see benches with E cores off and brute forcing P cores. APO is still significantly better.
Yes, but that's not what I said. Some games will use E cores when I disable core parking and force efficiency mode off. So "efficiency mode" isn't just a switch that controls whether E cores are being used, it's more like a "prefer P cores" or "prefer E cores" setting, but a process can still use both when it seems necessary. It definitely behaves differently than stock settings or E cores off.
I tried it in Metro Exodus yesterday and the game used the E cores. I tried a different game (Dead by Daylight) which didn't use the E cores at all with the same settings.