Kernels past 5.3 have a huge performance downgrade in emulators and some games

[CarlLaFong]

[Stable Update] 2020-09-11 - Kernels, Gnome 3.36.6, MHWD, Pamac, VirtualBox

I looked into this matter further and found this Reddit on the subject of modern kernel Power Management: Linux kernel 5.8 defaults to passive mode for intel_pstate driver for cpu before Skylake so I removed intel_pstate=active as a kernel parameter in grub (remember to sudo update-grub, and Restart) and instead opened TLPUI and changed the CPU Scaling Governor from “powersave” to “schedutil”, again Restart. More observation is needed but I think this fixed my issue!

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