Leo stared at his monitor, his face illuminated by the sickly glow of a frame rate counter that refused to budge past 24. He’d just spent two months’ salary on a GPU the size of a small loaf of bread, yet here he was, watching his legendary warrior move like a stop-motion puppet.

He pulled up the overlay. His GPU usage was sitting at a lazy 30%, while his CPU was screaming at 100%. It was a classic bottleneck—the digital equivalent of trying to pour a gallon of water through a cocktail straw.

"It's 2022," he whispered to his empty room. "I shouldn't be playing in 'slideshow' mode."