In Windows 10 v17134 when I go I can choose from three profiles for individual applications. Those profiles are "default//power saving//high performance". Are those profiles exactly the same as ones used in I got "(my own profile)//power saver//balanced//high performance" to choose from there.
I haven't noticed any difference, I just set them all to HP. Maybe you could tell on a laptop which is geared more for power saving. Don't think it has anything to do with power plan >balanced, HP etc.
I see you unlocked it, but yes it doesn't do anything HP can't do (set HDD to no sleep). I hope they add more features on that if possible.
Ok, If you look close in the options window you'll see it lists GPU for HP and power saving. It seems this option is for multiple GPU systems, where you might have integrated graphics with a dedicated graphics card. https://www.howtogeek.com/353730/how-to-view-and-improve-your-games-frame-per-second-fps/ So that is why if you have one graphics card you see no difference altering the option.
Not sure what you're asking, that setting adjusts the lowest process state, the default is like 5% but you will never see the CPU idle that low. For example, my 3570k idles at 1600mhz with 5% setting of balanced. I can increase that value by over 50% before it has any change to how the stepping of CPU MHz are affected. If you run in HP plan it will be 100% and give the fastest response of clock increases so, just use that for performance usage.
Yeah but is it needed to keep it at 100% manually these days or do modern CPUs clock themselves fast enough for this option to be obsolete?
Ok, well it depends on many things (bios settings, app load etc) but if your running steady state load your process should be 100%, it's only when the load is not steady or utilization is not full across all cores. The HP plan will ramp up to full (100%) faster if a load is spiking (up and down). I would say if your a gamer with modern CPU and games it doesn't make much of a difference. But that depends on how the game is coded, a poor console port and that might change things.
The first setting is great for those with an igpu. It allows some apps to render on my igpu when I want to keep my dgpu for games only. I use it but it is buggy for me. For some reasons, my power and high performance gpu are both set to my igpu. I don't know why this happened. It started happening after a while. I even reformatted and shortly after it turned out that way once again.
I haven't been able to find any difference in gaming performance between "Balanced" and "High Performance" last time I've checked this. Generally HP is just a waste of electricity I'd say.
Your talking CPU power plan? What I do is make a custom copy of HP and just set the min process rate so speed-step still works for 24/7 use. No reason to have CPU maxing out all the time. For games, I do have it switch to an HP plan but a lot of modern games load the CPU enough it doesn't really matter IMO, at least no my system. Maybe with an 8-16 core CPU, you can get more benefit from tweaking.