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    G1S Power Mizer?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sluzi26, Jul 21, 2007.

  1. sluzi26

    sluzi26 Notebook Geek

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    Is there a way I can get Power Mizer enabled? The stock drivers or the updated ones from Asus do not support it and I see little point in my video card running at full speed when I'm trying to conserve battery life.

    Thanks!
     
    sluzi26, Jul 21, 2007
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    As far as I know vista doesn't have powermizer...
     
    osso002, Jul 21, 2007
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    Hm apparently it's not enabled period on Vista. Go go Beta drivers!

    Edit: Correct. It is disabled on all Nvidia drivers. Unfortunate considering the increase in battery life one could see.
     
    sluzi26, Jul 21, 2007
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    From what I know, the video card downclocks automatically (vista is 3d though, so it might not). You can take out the eye candy and have it downclock to 2d mode and be more power efficient in the vista settings. Else, just use your keyboard shortcuts to dim your LCD.
     
    osso002, Jul 22, 2007
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    According to Rivatuner going to Vista Basic UI from AERO does nothing to change the current clock speeds on the GPU. The GPU is always running at full speed. 475/700.
     
    sluzi26, Jul 22, 2007
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    change built in vista powerstate to battery and it will go down into 3d low. It's a start :)
     
    adolfotregosa, Jul 22, 2007
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    So by that statement I would need to remove Power4Gear?
     
    sluzi26, Jul 22, 2007
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    try changing the profiles to battery and look at the hardware monitoring of riva tuner
     
    adolfotregosa, Jul 22, 2007
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    Aye I'm no novice changing the power scheme does nothing to the GPU speeds otherwise I wouldn't have posted something about power mizer :)
     
    sluzi26, Jul 22, 2007
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    the only problem here is that i do not have vista installed because i would post riva tunner screen shots. Changing vista power schemes brings down the 8600M gt clocks
     
    adolfotregosa, Jul 22, 2007
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