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    Gaming on Battery

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by an4rew, Sep 15, 2008.

  1. an4rew

    an4rew Notebook Enthusiast

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    Dell XPS M1530
    Geforce 8600M GT

    I want to play a little call of duty when i'm on the move, but its really laggy less than 10fps, when its on the charger i get 40fps.

    Is the Nvidia card underclocking itself to save battery?

    I've changed the battery plan from balance to high performance but its not much better. :(
     
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    Yes. Exit the game, force it to use all high performance modes (CPU and GPU) then open the game again.
     
    Hep!, Sep 15, 2008
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    philiptha Notebook Geek

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    hmm, gaming on battery, how long can you do that for?
     
    philiptha, Sep 15, 2008
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    Definitely not a worthwhile amount of time.
     
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  5. dusty550

    dusty550 Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do you do this?

    And sure the battery life sucks, but for me it's just to log on a game (eg. WoW) for a few mins to check stuff and the poor fps makes it nearly unplayable
     
    dusty550, Sep 15, 2008
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  6. Hep!

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    RM clock to disable lower power states for the CPU, nvidia control panel, open advanced settings, under mobile, configure powermizer settings - disable powermizer.
     
    Hep!, Sep 15, 2008
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    hooligan001 Notebook Evangelist

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    You can play call of duty 4 while on battery!

    Just make sure your power plan is set to high performance, and that all of the advanced power options for this plan are set to high performance.

    I have done this myself, you get about 40 mins gameplay i think...

    One thing though, if you just have the touchpad it may not be much use for gaming anyway, I certainly had fun trying to get some kills in lol
     
    hooligan001, Sep 16, 2008
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  8. Hep!

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    I used to game on my Inspiron 9200 with the touchpad all the time :)
    Just takes a bit of getting used to.
     
    Hep!, Sep 16, 2008
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    I've tried both the newest laptopvideo2go drivers & the newest from dell and neither have the option for mobile under advanced (or even custom).

    And I have tried high performance and even increasing the min clock speed on my processor. Still the same poor fps (Dell M1530 8600M GT)
     
    dusty550, Sep 16, 2008
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