Windows power plan settings explorer utility

I don`t have a rig with Win7 to test. You can ask others to check.

Have you .Net framework 4.5 installed?

 

.net 4.6.1 is installed. Perhaps this doesnt cover 4.5.
I know I have installed 4.5 before but I had to do a restore some time back so perhaps I undid it.
I'll give it a try.

 

Do not give it a try. v4.6.1 should be good. I will take source files to work to find Win7 and debug there.

 

Found the source of problem in Win7, and it is a function missing from API dll. And MSDN article states that this function is supported in Windows 7. Good work Microsoft. Need to think...

 

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wt37sbsejk7iepm/PowerSettingsExplorer.zip
Change log:
- fixed the issue of blank settings grid;
- if power setting is failed to obtained by API it is unable to edit it in utility - just view and set its visibility.

 

This is a great util, cheers.

 

I got a really simple question. How do you keep the overclock constant (GHz and Vcore) in Windows? I'm using the overclock feature on my motherboard (Asus Z270-AR) and i heard something about disabling c-state or something. Right now when something is demanding (mainly games and benchmarks) i notice all the cores would hit 4.8GHz and the voltage would be around 1.312v. I have my power management set to balanced since it only works with that setting, and if i change it to Max Performance or whatever it will only have the cpu at 4.2GHz with fluctuating voltages that are not good (.00x-1.xxv) at all time. I hope you guys have the answer for this and i've made a very clear what the issue is, thanks in advance.

 

@mbk1969 This may interest you https://mobile.twitter.com/Thracks/status/940279510171312128

 

As I understand core parking was On by default only in Windows 7 in power plans "Balanced" and "Power saver" (and only for quad or more core CPUs). Starting with Windows 8 core parking is Off by default in all power plans (regardless of CPU manufacturer).
It was true in all installations of Win7, Win8, Win8.1 and Win10 I have checked so far.

PS And btw there is no dedicated setting which is called "Enable core parking". It is just two twin core parking related settings` values:
"Processor performance core parking min cores" and "Processor performance core parking max cores" - when they have equal values core parking is Off.

PPS Also I don`t have rig(s) with AMD CPU(s). And most probably never will.

 

Thank you so much for this extremely useful app !

 

THX for this usefull Tool..
You amaze me with your posts

 

Its nice to see you around, @mbk1969 , good work as always. (y)

 

https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/a...a26f046aadb5e4fe34508dd97dd30a393bd/detection

 

paperlapap... its clean.. just symantec doing its thing again...

 

Well, I have not touched the bundle at mediafire since last uploading.

PS I am honored - Symantec has known about my file!

 

It`s nice to see you around, actually. Hold on.

 

im confused a bit, are my cores parkes or not? What a bout the Frequency scaling?
The thing is, do i have to set 100 or 0?
ALso, what is this "single, Rocket, ideal (optimal)??
(sorry, ui is in german...)


i tried some tools to verify that its working, but the thing is that the tools all say something else..or do nothing at all..

in the one tool it says frequency scaling 100%, in the other tool it says "Disabled"..



im just confused what is what now..

 

Launch Resource Monitor and switch to CPU tab. There on the right side you will see individual CPU graphs. Here is example of some CPU cores parked:



As for "single, rocket, ideal", when OS decides which P-state to switch to, it can switch:
- by one step if "single"
- right to the maximum state if "rocket"
- right to current calculated state if "ideal"

 

nice, thanks for these answers..
i understand now, my cores are not parked



have a very nice sunday mate..

greetz