PowerPlay

I have an E1505 and I fear that powerplay is no longer working for me. I dont believe that my GPU is being underclocked, even when I set it at maximum battery performance. Battery life is drained at the same speed it was at at optimal performance. Also, the options for powerplay were different before (I could select how much to downlock the video card based on the percentage of the battery left in the laptop, such as balanced at 50% and battery at 25%.) Now I dont even see that option. It used to be under rightclick desktop, properties, settings, advanced, powerplay.
I have no idea what changed this. I didnt install anything new driver wise except the fanio driver and then there was powerstrip, which I think was just fine.
Should reinstall the drivers, if so, point me to a guide for a clean install of drivers, to get rid of the old registires and such if it is necessary.
If anyone has any ideas about whats going on with my video card I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

 

Uninstall all the ati stuff and go to dell.com for the official drivers or omegadrivers.net for slightly better drivers and download the software. Should fix it up. Also gotta thank you for pointing this out; Powerplay was why my computer sucked at running games when the cord was unplugged.

 

I have the omega drivers installed, never installed any other ones before after the reformat. I am really confused how the tab options for the powerplay settings changed without me changing any drivers. Does anyone have a clue how that could happen. I think I am going to hold of the reinstallation until I get a little more feedback from some people.

 

No one has any input on my PowerPlay problem. I'd realy like to know why my card acts on 100% when I put it at its lowest.