Software that switches power scheme according to application running...

Does anybody know about any such application that would for example switch to "high performance" scheme whenever a game is launched??? And then it would automatically switch to power saver if there is only browser or movie running???

Thx a lot

 

it's called balanced mode. does it all the time, when ever needed goes up to high performance, and when not needed, down to power saver.

 

What? You mean profile in windows alone? I think It's just a profile inbetween performance and power saver...

 

you think wrong. it's a profile that allows the system to scale up to high performance when needed, and down to battery saving when not needed. in short, it does everything you want, but automatic.

 

Then why it has separate configuration?

 

why not? sometimes, the default is not what people like for what ever reason.

imagine you knowing your tablet pc will be with you all day long, and you need great batterylife, and can accept less performance. getting to "save power" mode, so it will never be able to clock upwards if needed means you get the longest batterylife.

but in win7, those are the only two options left, because those are the only two that make sense. power saver for when you really need the last bit of juice for long battery life, and balanced for everything else. it's like high performance, but intelligent.

 

Well I don't think you know what I want...example of what I want:

Running Opera browser and IM: Procesor locked to 5% min and max (according to windows power management), Ati Powerplay: Max power saving, Display backlight: 60%

Running Photoshop: 5-100% of CPU, ATi powerplay: Max power saving, Display 80%

Running Crysis: CPU locked to 100%, ATi powerplay: Max performance, display 100%

And you can't accomplish this automaticaly with any profile...

 

I disable OS power management in RMClock utility because it is crappy software based power management IMO. I like the actual component determining when i need power, i nwhich i discovered it does by default very well with Speedstep enabled of course.

 

Unfortunately I have Dell SXPS 1645 with core i7 (sorry I just updated my signature), so RMClock is kinda useless for me I believe...and still it can't do what I want by far...

 

well, the one question is, why do you want that. balanced gives you all of that, the backlight can be adjusted on the fly depending on lighting situations anyways. there's no need to manually fiddle per application. that's the os' and drivers job, to directly adapt to that (they do that in <millisecond time frames).

else, you could configure your profiles, and switch them for the needs (you actually would only need to set up a profile for crysis, called max performance. that existed for years, but NEVER had much use, which is why it got dropped. there is no need to lock the cpu, it can actually SLOW DOWN your performance).

so how about relaxing and enjoying the systems doing it's job well enough without any manual fiddling.

 

To OP maybe take a look at CPU-Genie it has per application power policies,i haven't used it to comment further but the options are there

 

I think it's safe to set ATI powerplay to max performance all the time. GPU will run mostly at minimal speed and occasionally switch to middle speed during normal windows usage. Max power saving will just lock GPU to minimal speed. Not worth the trouble to run extra program.