I'm running Windows 7 x64. I have an 9600m GT.
I can play games fine, but in any game, if I unplug the power, I get a huge framerate drop.
This is probably some power-saving feature, but how do I disable it? I tried putting it on High Performance mode but that didn't fix it.
Try looking in the BIOS. I'm sure the laptop itself is doing it, not the OS. But it will kill your battery. Exponentially.
[QUOTE=ilolled;19109678]I'm running Windows 7 x64. I have an 9600m GT.
I can play games fine, but in any game, if I unplug the power, I get a huge framerate drop.
This is probably some power-saving feature, but how do I disable it? I tried putting it on High Performance mode but that didn't fix it.[/QUOTE]
Vista? You can manually tune what happens to your pc when you unplug it bu screwing around in the tab where you can select (high performance/balanced, ect)
Sorry i am to lazy to open my laptop to check the exact path.
You can set the % the cpu will throtle and the speeds of the pci busses ect ect.
Start, control panel, power options (under Mobile PC) in Vista. You can also right click on the battery icon and adjust it from there.
[QUOTE=ilolled;19109678]I'm running [b]Windows 7 x64[/b]. I have an 9600m GT.
I can play games fine, but in any game, if I unplug the power, I get a huge framerate drop.
This is probably some power-saving feature, but how do I disable it? I tried putting it on High Performance mode but that didn't fix it.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=taipan;19110265][b]Vista?[/b] You can manually tune what happens to your pc when you unplug it bu screwing around in the tab where you can select (high performance/balanced, ect).[/QUOTE]
Bravo
[QUOTE=Dr Egg;19110503]Bravo[/QUOTE]
W7 and Vista's laptop power management is pretty much the same, W7 just has some more stuff added to it.
[QUOTE=Dr Egg;19110503]Bravo[/QUOTE]
It's basically the same procedure.
I get this too.
Then again my framerate doesn't lower much, as I get about 30FPS on gm_flatgrass anyways.
It's the power management. To save battery, when you unplug the power, it lowers, voltage, and fan speeds, and what not. You can change that in power management though.
Nvidia has a thing in there drivers that down clocks your GPU when you switch to battery.
There's a way to turn it off by editing a few of your registry files.
okay I found the tutorial for it
[url]http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/19134-gpu-downclocking-for-no-apparent-reason-disable-powermizer/[/url]
Yeah, ATi has that too. Go into CCC, I think it's called PowerPlay or something like that.
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