i7-13700k - Rog Strix 4090 - 32gb RAM - 2TB NVME Drive After loading DCS and selecting a mission, the mission will sometimes load without issue and play great. The next time, same or different mission, I can tell something is not right by the load screen. It takes significantly longer to load each part. Sometimes I can bring up task manager, and as soon as I do, it starts to load normal. This also will happen when opening a mission in the editor, the load is normal and therefore the editing is smooth, but sometime the load is extremely slow, and if I wait for it to complete, the editing is bogged down and slow. When these things happen and I go view task manager, its shows DCS Power Usage as Very High, although the CPU and GPU usage are low, but not sure if it shows that because I have switched focus to task manager. Also, sometime the mouse movement is slow when back at desktop while checking task manager and switch back to the game the mouse movement remains slow and jumpy. I have closed down all tasks running to reduce the chance of something interfering with the game. I check HWINFO after these instances and there are no events or signs of high usage. It almost seems to me like a memory leak. When it does start normally I can fly for hours without issue, but I can always tell by the way it loads if the session is going to be playable. Also performance is great when its loads correctly. Extremely smooth and enjoyable. The main steps I have taken are... 1. Close all unnecessary programs. 2. Moved the game to three different NVME drives in case it was a drive issue. 3. Latest GPU drivers as well as rolling back a few. Any help appreciated. This crap shoot has started to get very annoying.

For those looking, and since it apparently is not important enough to put a sticky in the performance bug section, the issue was the Intel P-Core E-Core. My issue was resolved by disabling Core #8. I see this was hit upon a year ago and now it is pretty well know that the issue is the Intel Cores, so not really understanding why a sticky has not been made.