Vista - 'Power Plans' and performance question.

Hard to explain all of this in the title of the thread:

My computer (see sig) gave me a little surprise. When I click on the battery icon on the right side of the task bar, I am given three power plans - Balanced, Power saver, and High performance.

I was using the computer unplugged today, and had it in Power saver (manually changed from Balanced). I then went back to my desk, plugged it in to power, and started playing Orange Box...and the performance sucked. Long story short, I was playing it in Power saver despite the fact I had it plugged into AC. Going to High performance was literally 3x the frame rate (and a lot more heat!)

Is there any way to have it default back to High performance when on AC power, and default to Power saver when on battery? Its easy to change, but it would be nice to have it change by default - performance on AC, power save on battery.

Also, on High performance mode, it it still in any way throttling the computer?

Thanks!

 

Doesn't most manufacturer supply their own power manager? The Vista built-in power plan which afaik doesn't automatically change the power plan between battery/AC. You can go into the advanced power plans to modify a lot more settings though, High performance keeps the CPU speed at 100%.

You could just set it to Balanced so that the CPU will throttle down both on battery and AC, then scale back up with activity.

 

Refer no.20 in here. That software provide exactly what you want with some addition function.

 

I just changed to performance powerplan to where if I'm on battery, it switches everything to power saving. Balanced is the best default plan IMO.

 

Under Vista, individual plans have options for what occurs on AC vs. Battery, so there's no need to have it switch plans based on power source.

To set up your own plan, click start, type 'power' into the search box and open the 'Power Options' app. Click the 'Create Power Plan' and select a basis program to start your custom program from.

For some silly reason, Vista hides the settings until the plan is created. So, click 'Create' then back on then back at the Power Options app, select 'Change Plan Settings' under the program you just created, then click on 'Change Advanced Settings'. Expand each option and you'll see values for 'On Battery' and 'Plugged In'. Max out the settings on 'Plugged In' and minimize on 'On Battery' and you'll get what you want, I believe.

 

Listen i have a serious problem:

While playing Counter strike for more than 20-30 mins...the Processor speed drops from 1800 to 800 MHz EVEN WHEN power plan is High Performance...


Can anyone help ??? Is it due to GPU overheating?