DRM to the rescue again! (sarc)
Aside from the convenience of Steam, GOG makes a lot of sense when playing modding games too. No DRM to get in the way, put multiple copies for different mods where you want them.
Win10 may be the solution then.
If the little cores are so much trouble for gaming workload, maybe Intel should also have 'aided' Microsoft's kernel devs with a way to dynamically disable the little cores.
You'd think any running programs might have issues (I asked the kernel: was told there were 16 cores. And launched 16 threads. Now I ask again and am told there are only 8 cores...)
Not sure if the OS can even tell programs that the cores have altered and how would such a program respond?
A disable all the Little cores, force quit all background programs won't be enough either.
What's really needs is a force quit all background programs, tell all hardware drivers to restart etc. Might as well reboot then.
Wonder would the small cores be enough to keep Ampere occupied, or do Nvidia's drivers need big cores to keep Ampere fed?