Control Center not remembering the power plan choice

I set my power plan to High Performance, every once in a while when I open Control Center, I see that it has reverted the power plan back to Entertainment (AKA Balanced)

Anyone experienced this?

Running the latest version for Windows 10 from Sager's site Control Center AP v5.0000.0.32 as the one on Clevo's site Control Center AP v5.0000.0.35 is corrupted.

Shall I try the default one that came with my drivers disc Control Center AP v5.0000.0.26?

 

Installed a later version of the Control Center and so far the power plan didn't change from what I set it. Will continue to monitor this and report back.

 

where are you downloading the clevo control center from? I for some reason can't ever get my fan profiles to work...

 

well usually from Clevo Drivers Download but the current version is corrupted, once you extract the ZIP its corrupt

I tried the latest one from Sager for my model but that's the one I am having issues from.

Please contact your reseller to help you get the latest version as I am not authorized to distribute/share it

Also, you wanna make sure you download the right one for your model:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/drivers.php?cat=596

 

you can't post a link? why lol

 

Because I am not allowed to post the link unfortunately until it is released by Clevo themselves.

Secondly, I see your laptop model is different than mine, I am not sure if the driver that I currently installed would work. I would get in touch with your re-seller and ask them for an updated version and explain your issue to them.

 

okay, well you are a loud to post links here, unless you are employed by a reseller or something which I didn't know you were. Is it the clevo control center the same as HotKey?

 

1) I live in Dubai, noone even knows what's Clevo here

2) No I am not employed by Clevo, I am an enthusiast that loves Clevo machines

3) I am not allowed to post the link as it is not out for the public yet.

4) Even if I was allowed to post the link, you wouldn't wanna install it as it is for the P870DM-G model not for your model

5) Yes, the Control Center is the same driver as the Hotkey Driver, just a different name. When you install the Hotkey driver anyway what it installs is the driver for the keyboard along with the Control Center app to control the fans, lighting, GPU overclocking, etc.

 

If it were not for the fact I want to change my keyboard backlight color and turn off the lid lighting I would not even bother installing Hotkey/Control Center software. I really hate all the extra worthless crap bundled with it and I have no use for any of it except the lighting controls. I wish they would make a separate utility for the lighting and the color changes would be saved permanently until manually changed. It's really stupid that the lighting options are only applied within Windows. I also dislike the inability to change the lid lighting animation. Since I cannot have it stay on (static) and the only option is the breathing animation, I just turn it off completely. In the absence of the ability to control it, I wish the lighting on the lid was static (no animation) instead of breathe.

It would also be nice if the default keyboard color was white instead of the royal blue color. I like blue, but I prefer just plain old ordinary white since the status lighting around the power button is white and not adjustable. I would prefer to have them match.

And, yes... I have had it randomly change my power selection a few times. Not very often, but once in a while I notice that suddenly my screen is turning off to save power or something stupid that I have disabled on purpose. It doesn't actually change the power plan settings, but switches to a different plan... usually Balanced (which Clevo calls Entertainment for some reason). I only use High Performance and then tweak it so nothing ever turns off, sleeps, dims, etc. I want everything running full blast all of the time and nothing ever turning off to save power.

 

It's been 3 hours now since I installed the latest Control Center and the power plan hasn't switched yet.

Next test is to see if it changes after a reboot.

On the other hand, I agree with everything you said, the lighting effects controls are so basic for such a beastly machine and the inability to set the default color so even when you are not in Windows you favorite color is applied is pretty dumb.

Also, very old bug in the control center....

When you launch the control center and set the SLEEP BUTTON to SLEEP instead of the default HIBERNATE, Once you close the Control Center and open it again, it reverts back to the default HIBERNATE option. Heck I don't even have hibernation enabled in the BIOS.

It seems like it is not saving my choice

 

It very seldom changes power profiles on me. It's really nothing more than an inconvenience in the grand scheme of things. When it does happen it is usually after launching it. It seems that if I do not launch Control Center and choose my power plan from Windows it does fine. It is extremely rare that I launch Control Center for any reason, but once I do is when it starts changing my power plan without asking for my permission.

Now here is something even more troubling about the stupid GPU OC utility. That is really a piece of trash. Not often, I think twice since last November or December, and for no explainable reason, I have had it max out the GPU overclock settings during Windows startup (using stock voltage mind you) and make my machine unstable just trying to load the desktop, with some weird black screen crap going on. The only reason I could see what was causing it is because my AIDA64 desktop sensor panel had the bar meters pegged all the way to the right before Windows would crash, freeze or screen go black. And, that is even more weird considering that I NEVER use that GPU OC utility. It is totally worthless to me, like MSI Afterburner, because it has no voltage control.

What I think I may do is see what happens if I rename some pieces of Control Center to break them on purpose while still have LED color changing functionality. If that works without crashing Control Center, that might be a quick and easy solution. The older versions (like on my Panther) have an INI file that might allow some of this tweaking to disable some parts of it, but I have not examined the new version like the Sky X9 uses.

 

LOL it was messing with my system permissions. Got rid of the whole shabang.
The CCC app was useful for changing to maximum fan profile, until i realized you can do the same using Fn+1. Uninstalled it right after that.

 

Here is a thread i made about the issue i was having. Its just not supposed to be messing with things like system permissions.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/alternatives-to-clevo-control-center-for-fan-control.789765/

 

power plan auto changing fixed with the latest version of the control center, please do not ask for the version number or to share it as I am not allowed to do so but this is good news that the fix is coming soon.

I shut down, restarted, the power plan is still on high performance.

 

I already have it for test purposes as well, and I just had the problem with the unexpected GPU OC setting getting maxed out for unidentified reasons, crashing Windows on this Sky X9 only a few days ago, LOL. As I mentioned, I had the problem once before a number of months ago with an earlier version of Control Center.

Once I figured it out, the only way I could stop it was DDU clean the drivers, uninstall Control Center, reinstall drivers then reinstall Control Center. This is a triple-boot system and it happened in Windows 10 and Windows 7. It was not happening in Windows 8.1.

 

Made a post a while back about how much I hate control center: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/sagers-proprietary-control-center.785695/#post-10163976 some of these have hopefully been fixed by now

 

I find it useless as well, had been planning to do a search and see if I would lose fan control if I uninstalled it. Now I won't have to make that search. Seriously seems like a waste for me, I run mine as Mr. Fox, everything on always, hibernate disabled in the BIOS, no sleep. I made those changes in windows as part of my clean startup image and low and behold after I installed all the drivers I found CCC had changed my power settings after my screen turning off alerted me to something amiss. This happened without me ever opening it up once after the first look through to see what it was about. Didn't need to go back twice since the only functionality it has that I care about are the fans and I don't know why I would want to open that up just to change the fans when you can use the function 1 er... function. At any rate I do have to say the whole implementation seems poor. IMO the lights should be function keyed, the rest should have been shelved after it was brought up in a meeting and the person who suggested it was fired and escorted from the building.

 

I noticed with the latest Control Center, now the lights dont go back to the default blue color when I reboot, they stay red as I set them in the Clevo Control Center!

 

Stop teasing. Leak it already.

 

you think I enjoy this? I feel happy to share and let others enjoy what I am enjoying.

I have a boss though and he would kill me if I leak anything. I keep my word.

But look at the bright side, that version should come out to the public soon so at least you know the fix is coming soon

 

Yes ,you monster, you do.
On a serious note, id give it a shot whenever it comes out. For now, no CCC for me.

 

Only interest I have to use the Control Center is the ability to use overclocked fan speed. Is there a possibility that overclocked fan speed can be set as stock fan speed in the bios? @Prema Another option is whether it is possible for some with the skills to tweak the control center so that overclocked fan speed can be standard fan speed when the control center start up in windows. Any opportunity for this?

 

OR better yet, to have the ability to control the fans from the BIOS

 

Yeah. But everything is better than how it is now. The control center isn't useful like it works now. More like Bloatware.

 

BTW, ever since I installed the latest Control Center, it's been like 5 days and my power plan has never changed from the High Performance plan and my lights are always red like I set them to be even during rebooting! Awesome stuff

 

Just use FN+1 for max fan speed. That is what I do. I am happy with that and don't need anything else. I have no need for finite fan speed control when I am benching because max fans is all I use. When I am not benching, the stock fan tables work well enough. The only time they screw up is if XTU is installed, but I don't use XTU any more.

 

Yeah. I also use FN+1 for benching, but I would still had the opportunity to tweak my fans. It's a way better than Aw's crippled fan profile so I'm happy with how it works. But if some could tweak the fan control in control center or this could be done in bios would become a big + The rest in control center is not useful for me. Why should I want to use entertainment, hibernate, slep functionality? I only want raw power. If I should use settings to crippled the performance, I rather purchased a CromeBook And a more expensive AsusBook, MsiBook or AWBOOK isn't a better choice than a cheap CromeBook if you want mediocre performance