clevo P150EM + 7970M help: windows power settings???

Well first of all, and as said by the original writer:
THIS IS NOT A FIX to the enduro issue.

BUT, as reported, it seems to help reducing the impact of the issue, giving whole lot better FPS in reputed games with the enduro underutilization issue.

SO i leave you this data, so you can test and check this yourself, probably it wont help many, but i hope it does help some... sometimes the obvious is not checked at all when you are blinded with one road (in this case CCC settings), note that this is default windows setting, so all new and freshly OS reloaded systems could be affected...

SOURCE: Anadtech's article page 18 of comments.

to me it sound promising, although NOT a FIX...

regards

Voz

 

If switch my power setting to high performance all the changes you made are already by default.
I'll try on Planetscape 2 and let you know later.

 

I checked mine and mine were already ALL set to the way the guy has it. Mind you I have never changed or touched these settings before. I guess people's "default" settings came differently?

 

Windows 7 and XP (so far the two OS i have more experience with) when installed set the Power saving settings to max battery by default. I usually change that as initial post setup to avoid my screen and specially hard drive and system to go hybernation mode or else, because sometimes i need the PC to keep working even if i am away.
Maybe some resellers change these features after installing as well.

I think specially his reported GPU usage for high and low game settings (note that there is no change in ultra settings) are interesting and encouraging, since he is able to boost the GPU usage for lower graphic configurations, specially in BF3, and therefore gets better FPS and better game experience.

I mainly think these helps proving the issue is not hardware related (since a windows configuration changes things), wich gives us hope of a proper FIX by AMD. Also it gives insight as to why not all users are getting the same awfull results, all get bad GPU utilization but not everyone reports te same numbers.
I also think that if it works it might help 7970M owners in the wait of a proper AMD driver release.

but its definetely NOT the magic fix we might expect.

still its worth trying, and if it helps its worth propagating the trick.

Voz

 

I can see why you're still very optimistic and hopeful with an Enduro fix. It's because you still don't have the actual product and you probably won't have to wait as long as most of us have. A part of me is glad there are still people like you where as if every has given up like me, this whole place would be super depressing. Lol.

I'm curious to see what you think of the 7970M after you've played with it for a bit and if (IF!) the end-of-October deadline doesn't produce a cure-all solution from AMD.

I'm not being a d*ck, I'm being very sincere. Just a bit of a background, if you dig up my posts, I was one of the many who didn't understand/notice the Enduro issues until guys like arcticjoe help point it out via tests I never though of running. Luckily for me, most games I play except for BF3 aren't affected.

 

Sure, cant wait to have the laptop next monday, but i wont be able to test it until 23rd sept or so, because down here we are in national day hollidays, and next week is almost everyday party day... lol\

But my optimism comes from the evidence i have read all over the place. I dont blame anyone being angry because they had expectations unfullfilled.
On the other hand, i have been doing research for over a month now, and only last two weeks or a month have been overly negative towards the 7970M, just after i made my buy, so i was already pretty much fckd by then, lol (i bought from overseas, my uncle gets the laptop and brings it over just now). So you can imagine all this has me pretty worried, even tho i have to be optimistic and try to help with the solution.

As for now i have a battery of games waiting for the laptop. I plan on playing them without any meassurements at first, just to see how they "feel", and after do some tests and proper meassurements (wich will probably take me a while since i have never done any). Finally BF3 multiplayer is nowhere near my interest game, so even if affected it would not really make me unhappy per se.

I hope more affected users try the help of power setting posted here anyway, and report any results, if any of course.

regards
Eduardo L.

 

Yeah, I already checked my settings and as I said above, mine were already set that way without having to touch them. By default mine was already good and BF3 multi-player still suffers from the issues the same.

 

This is by default and Clevo has the control center which has presents for performance/gaming. It does all of this by default, not a big deal and has no affect on the Enduro issue.

 

That's what I thought.

 

You are welcome Mark AMD

Originally Posted by Marc@AMD
I want to thank all those users that have been patient in this matter, and peristent in providing helpful information and feedback to the community.

We have received some positive news from the Driver Development Team. A driver is planned to be released in the near future that will provide significant improvements to notebooks enabled withAMD Enduro™ Technology.

Please stay tuned to our support.amd.com site for the driver posting.

Source: AMD Game Forums - The Clevo 7970M Enduro/under-utilization debacle.