Unplugged FPS Drop?

Is there any way to fix it? I have my performance at high for when the laptop is unplugged. Are there any other options I'm missing? The laptop I have is in my sig.

 

The system might be doing something to save power.

 

Probably NVIDIA PowerMizer. I have the same problem with my laptop, and have found no solution. I don't care anyway because it gets only 1 Hr of battery life and playing a game would probably put it down to 30 minutes or less.

-J.B.

 

Usually your cpu multiplyer will drop down to half its normal value when unplugged. Download cpu-z and gpu-z to see what is downclocking when you disconnect from your ac adapter.

 

thanks guys....I guess there really isn't anything I can do about this then, right?

 

plug it back in. Gaming unplugged gives you like an hour or less of fun time.

 

This isn't true for all Intel C2D's is it?

That is pretty bad IMO. Everytime I have it unplugged I lose half the processing power?

There must be some way of stopping it from doing that.

 

I find installing the laptopvideo2go.com drivers sometimes disables powermizer, so it runs at whatever you power settings shows. This might be a bad thing for some people.

 

You can disable it in the BIOS. At least on my C90S. It will force the maximum multiplier 100% of the time. Speedstep I believe

 

RMclock should help make the CPU run at full speed, as for the GPU, unless powermizer is disabled from the driver, it's hard to disable it in Vista,since it's not a click here,do that kind of option.

 

I had the same problem. My Ping would skyrocket and i realized it was my computer. I rolled back to 16x. drivers that dont have powermizer... that helped ALOT... and i also always keep my computer settings on "High performance" plugged in or not. I only use power saver for unplugged notetaking or sumtin. Balanced is useless to me lol. But the problem is still there nonetheles.. and i do think its the processor which i cant change.

 

ok try this:
right click on the battery icon in the taskbar and click on power options. the click on change plan settings on the plan you use when you unplug your notebook. then click change advanced power settings. Then click on processor power management. then change the minimum state on battery to 100%. then find the same settings for your gpu.
hope this helped!

 

word... good advice but I did that already, unless that was directed at the thread starter. It makes it better, but doesnt fully help. I think its a driver issue mostly. Especially the new 17x series have powermizer.. suck

 

ive never managed to get my laptop to do this, ever

so i just leave it plugged in, its been many a year since i had a laptop that played games the same on battery as on AC. i think i was about 12 when i had a laptop that did that, and it couldnt play anything better than mechwarrior 3.

 

Yes there is a solution.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=3459624&postcount=6