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    Crappy performance on battery

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by ZombiePikmin, Jan 3, 2012.

  1. ZombiePikmin

    ZombiePikmin Notebook Geek

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    I just noticed today that my performance on games really sucks when on battery. I was playing Dirt 3 and have no problems and i accidentally booted the game with no AC power and i didnt notice it until i noticed that the game played like absolute crap on settings that usually get me 55-60fps.

    I plugged in the AC cord, restarted the game, and everything was back to normal.

    I know its not ideal to play with only battery but is there a fix for this?

    some info:

    asus g73jh, ccc version 11.11 , bios 213, chastity vbios
     
    ZombiePikmin, Jan 3, 2012
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  2. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    You will have to change all your power settings in windows or P4G and CCC to get full performance on battery for both CPU and GPU. However, i advise against doing it.
     
    tijo, Jan 3, 2012
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  3. Spiritus777

    Spiritus777 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I believe the reason for such horrible performance while on battery is that the battery is unable to to provide sufficient power for the laptop to perform at 100%. Correct me if I'm wrong but the battery is 95 Watts vs the power adapter being 150 Watts.
     
    Spiritus777, Jan 4, 2012
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  4. smellon

    smellon Notebook Evangelist

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    I believe you can force full performance on battery but why would you want that? You'll only be able to play for like 30 minutes.

    Power settings show that both CPU and GPU speeds are heavily limited when on battery.. so...
     
    smellon, Jan 4, 2012
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  5. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    It's not just that, some batteries don't like being drained that fast too.
     
    tijo, Jan 4, 2012
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  6. sarge_

    sarge_ Notebook Deity

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    As others said, it's possible to get full performance on battery, but you would need a replacement battery very soon.
     
    sarge_, Jan 7, 2012
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  7. zviratko

    zviratko Notebook Enthusiast

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    It is NOT possible with Nvidia card, it reduces the clock automatically and I don't think there's a way to force it other than modding VBIOS.

    Correct me if I'm wrong - I spent more than enough time trying to get games going on battery.
     
    zviratko, Jan 10, 2012
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  8. @tilla

    @tilla Notebook Evangelist

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    Imho it's hardware regulated.
    You can't go full load on battery because of the mentioned arguments.
     
    @tilla, Jan 10, 2012
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  9. ZombiePikmin

    ZombiePikmin Notebook Geek

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    Thank you guys it makes sense now!
     
    ZombiePikmin, Jan 10, 2012
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