That Thread to brag how short your battery life is.....

So here you are with your Gaming laptop on your desk..and it hit's you....How long is your battery life while playing a game? Knowing that it will be bad and for giggles you go ahead an load up your DX10 game of choice.....

That was my story yesterday with my G50Vt-X1...The game was Hawx DX10,everything other than AA set to high....
The Number?
From 100% to Automatic shutdown....
9:35...
Might I add with It in Battery saving made I get about 2hours 20 min.
What's your numbers?
I would love to see the time on an M17X SLI setup.

 

with my crappy GPU i manage to get 25 minutes of left for dead 2, overclocked aswell.

 

I say we do this with no gaming, because the game certainly influences this. With overclocks I got 5 mins of battery life with crysis maxed out no AA

 

lol.. mine overclocked and on performance, I get 75mins.

 

No clue... I can't play a game for long enough to properly time it. Too many other responsibilities 3+ hours with the slice.

 

Really? I can play for about 45 mins from 100% - 15% on a mobility HD 3650, but screen brightness turned all the way down on my battery.

 

after only 8 months from new, my 6920g battery from fully charged does not last long enough to let me login to windows 7. so i guess about 2mins

 

I have an old inspirion lying around at home that can't hold a charge period, is that short enough? haha

 

I have my old VAIO laying around. The battery is so screwed up, that if you unplug it from the AC adapter, the laptop shuts down instantly.

 

Im sure my old W90 with dual 4870's and a overclocked Q9000 to 2.7ghz could win this thread for how short the life is for a brand new laptop

If your battery last 30 minutes after years of wear thats normal, but the W90 could probably be dead in 10 minutes gaming on full power.

 

Once upon a time I took my G1S to a park and let my friend play NFS: Carbon on there for about an hour before it gave up. That's not too bad I guess. Certainly better than 5 minutes!

 

I have never played games on battery and I never will. It's not the fact that it drains quickly, but when I try to play on battery, my FPS is a lot lower for some reason. So I have never tried it.

 

I live in Seattle, and back when I was dating a girl who lived across the water, I would game on the ferry on batt, and generally get about an hour or so. With my Sager in sig. I wouldn't normally game on batt, but that was a uniquely serendipitus set of circumstances.

 

Wouldn't try as on battery cuts off performance 20% and it's really dumb to game on battery.

 

Don't most laptops throttle the GPU power back a bit when on battery to prevent battery consumption?

 

My previous laptop only had 10-12 minutes from 100% to 0% regardless of what i do. Around 7 minutes if gaming

Current's stuck on an hour and 30minutes ever since i bought it

 

...dumb? Since when? I like playing Civ4 and Braid and such on the airplane. How is that dumb?

 

I should try this - I never have tried it, as I'd assumed that it'd be about 10 minutes, and where is the fun in that? But I guess the hard drives would be pretty energy efficient in my system; if I played Civ IV or something that didn't have to read a CD, and turned screen brightness down...

hmmm, now I'm curious....

 

well at the moment, my old alienware 9750 gives me about an hour or so ..... and my Dell Latitude D620 gives me close to 30seconds .... time for a new battery

 

Go into the catalyst, into powerplay and adjust it to run on maximum power on baterry.

 

(I am OP....)
I set my overclock on my laptop to "Turbo Extreame" when I did it and saw the same frames I see plugged in,no lag...about 32FPS everything looked great...Does anyone think that the overclock also removes the Battery life preservation mode on laptops(That causes the Typical Frame rate drop)?

 

I can play GTA 4 for an about an hour give or take a minute or two on my 9 cell T61p, not overclocked and fan on max obviously.

Edit: In fact, playing with automatic shutdown disabled playing GTA 4, is how i killed my battery, it was at 20% and i had it plugged in, but not at the outlet, so i was unassumingly gaming when it shut down, thought it was from heat but then found out what had happened. Pulled the battery out then put it back in, no turn on, unplugged then plugged in CMOS battery, no response, so i booted up plugged in and power manager reports that my battery is not functional and can't be charged, have no idea what happened, i'm assuming it's cause i discharged it way too deep or something. Sad cause it was still a great battery for being about 2 years old.

 

My guess is that your lenovo had an switch to guess that your battery was charging by seeing if anything is plugged in,so I bet that It thought it was charging and it tried to charge a cell of your battery but the inop charger just drained it (due to internal resistance) that is an very common case in lithium batteries such as the batteries used in High Performance R/C cars and planes(You guys should see the wattage people are now capable of pulling...Don't think radioshack,The fastest cars and trucks are electric.)

 

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my battery lasts 20-30 mins... maybe 15 in games... 62% wear after 14 months... but luckily i got a free spare battery waiting!!!!

 

This laptop is old way before the days of good battery life. about 30 minutes gaming. about 70 minutes web surfing

 

HDX Dragon 8800M GTS, Intel T9300, Vertex 120GB SSD, Seagate 7200RPM 320GB HDD. 1.7 years old - Original standard battery. Approx 2 hours general computing (Office, Web browsing). Only game on AC.

DV5 - 9300M GS, T7250, Vertex 60GB SSD. 9 months old - Original standard battery. Approx 2 hours general computing.

TX2500 ATI 3200HD, ZM-80[undervolted], Vertex 30GB SSD, 1.6 years old. Original 8 cell extended battery. Approx 4hours general computing (Office, Onenote, browsing).

Batteries conditioned every 1 to 2 months by running them down from full to empty shut off then charging them up again.

 

My Np9262 with a Q9650, Dual 9800m GTX both @ 550/850/1375 on battery with a nintendo 64 emulator lasts about 40 minutes. Decent. I mean, for what it has to power on battery...

 

Give Crysis a try. I'm sure you'll last a lot shorter.

 

Seven Minutes

 

Shouldn't these all start with

"My battery life is so short that ..."

Would be much more fun...

 

My battery life is so short that I played Civ4 on the airplane all the way from Charlotte to Denver, and when I had to turn it off I still had 21% of the battery left... oh

 

One of my batteries on my old laptop had to be recalled for explosions. Do I win?

 

no in fact ur an epic fail as ur battery still had life before it was recalled...

 

on my asus g1 its about 3 years old i do a full charge and try load patrician 3, probably one of the least demanding games i have installed after minesweeper and it opens the start up movie and shuts down.

i can watch about 5 minutes of a movie before it shuts down.

 

Burnout paradise for 40 min then shut down...

For me a lot of power goes to revving to fan to highest

 

6 mins with my gateway 6874h

 

I was deafly surprised by by G50vt the other day...
Crysis Warhead,Gamer setting...
51min!!!
And it looked Great!!

 

My battery life is so short that the second you unplug the cord, it turns off! oh!
But that's because the battery is dysfunctional...

 

well new battery now! expected life 1.5hrs.. 53Whrs... HAHA!

 

REB 7 minutes made me laugh. i always thought 30 minutes was bad. never realized how short some of the uber powerful laptops are.

 

~30 minutes with Mass Effect 2, and the battery gets really hot. But performance is the same as on AC power, so I'm happy.