Power Mode while playing Witcher 2

[Pramit]

So I am trying to play witcher 2 on my potato PC, but failing terribly, so I wanted to ask in order to run the game properly whatever maybe your hardware is, do I need to run the game in high power mode in the power settings of windows ?

[Cryiox]

You need better hardware man.

[Hurodrik]

Originally posted by Pramit:

So I am trying to play witcher 2 on my potato PC, but failing terribly, so I wanted to ask in order to run the game properly whatever maybe your hardware is, do I need to run the game in high power mode in the power settings of windows ?

From someone who had a potato pc for most of their life, I know your pain. If you are talking about power profiles, that probably means you are using a laptop, yes? In that case, avoid playing any demanding game while using the batteries, as the machine will decrease processing power to save energy, even if you select the highest performance option. Plug it in and also go for the most energy consuming setting, to get the most out of your hardware.

It also helps to reset the computer after you plug it in, as they sometimes go into energy saving mode even without telling you, and my old laptop would only change that setting if I turned it of and then on again.

With all that said, The Witcher 2 is not really know for running well in weak machines. I could not play it until I got a rig with un actual graphics card. You may or may not be able to play it in low settings with an integrated card, but I would not be optimistic. Best of luck!

[Pramit]

Originally posted by Hurodrik:

Originally posted by Pramit:

So I am trying to play witcher 2 on my potato PC, but failing terribly, so I wanted to ask in order to run the game properly whatever maybe your hardware is, do I need to run the game in high power mode in the power settings of windows ?

From someone who had a potato pc for most of their life, I know your pain. If you are talking about power profiles, that probably means you are using a laptop, yes? In that case, avoid playing any demanding game while using the batteries, as the machine will decrease processing power to save energy, even if you select the highest performance option. Plug it in and also go for the most energy consuming setting, to get the most out of your hardware.

It also helps to reset the computer after you plug it in, as they sometimes go into energy saving mode even without telling you, and my old laptop would only change that setting if I turned it of and then on again.

With all that said, The Witcher 2 is not really know for running well in weak machines. I could not play it until I got a rig with un actual graphics card. You may or may not be able to play it in low settings with an integrated card, but I would not be optimistic. Best of luck!

Tbf I have a Nvidia graphics card which is GeForce GT 610 which is not as per the minimum requirements graphics card, so i was just curious whether I can increase the framerate by increasing the power settings

[Red Star, Blood Moon]

Originally posted by Pramit:

So I am trying to play witcher 2 on my potato PC, but failing terribly, so I wanted to ask in order to run the game properly whatever maybe your hardware is, do I need to run the game in high power mode in the power settings of windows ?

I...what?
I actually keep forgetting what breadth and depth of different levels the people here are on, like I mean that's not even a question that ever would've occurred to me.
Haha oh wow so just out of curiosity I decided to check and see if I could figure out what you're talking about and it's like man, what are you even on right now? Like what versionof window
oh. nvm same guy.

Originally posted by Pramit:

Originally posted by Hurodrik:

From someone who had a potato pc for most of their life, I know your pain. If you are talking about power profiles, that probably means you are using a laptop, yes? In that case, avoid playing any demanding game while using the batteries, as the machine will decrease processing power to save energy, even if you select the highest performance option. Plug it in and also go for the most energy consuming setting, to get the most out of your hardware.

It also helps to reset the computer after you plug it in, as they sometimes go into energy saving mode even without telling you, and my old laptop would only change that setting if I turned it of and then on again.

With all that said, The Witcher 2 is not really know for running well in weak machines. I could not play it until I got a rig with un actual graphics card. You may or may not be able to play it in low settings with an integrated card, but I would not be optimistic. Best of luck!

Tbf I have a Nvidia graphics card which is GeForce GT 610 which is not as per the minimum requirements graphics card, so i was just curious whether I can increase the framerate by increasing the power settings

Like I don't mean to be a ♥♥♥♥ here but it's really just a fascinating question to me, of toggling something in power management to try and run a game better. Judging by guy above it actually does have some kind of an impact on a laptop, but I'm unsure, I mean you're running off a desktop with a card right?

Here is for future reference
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-610.c821
That's a very useful site for cross referencing loosely the different powers of GPUs, and I'd strongly encourage you to go on youtube and see if you can find some old reviews of older hardware. I'd normally say to try minmaxing an office rig, but nah, it probably would be cheaper at this point to just build the barest minimum recent gen low spec, like a, 3300g or something like that? 1300x? 10100f? I can't recall prices atm for splitting hairs between a used Intel 3770 or 2500k etc. and an old board vs lowest end new, but there's guides on that. I also useruserbenchmarks too, but only because it's convenient and I already know it's more full of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ than even IGN.

As others told you already, you should keep in mind that sometimes a newer card with really low tier specs can get blown out of the water by a more ancient but legendary or at least good card, like for example the HD 7970 or a GTX 770 or something to that effect. Also going further back in time gets complicated if you're learning for the first time because some brands switched naming conventions, so like a HD 7570 is a much worse card than a HD 6950. Or how a 3770k is the highest end Ivy Bridge when it goes up to, 12950k now? 12900ks? Something like that. Or even worse, how sometimes you get old enough it loops back around, like a 6800GT or 6800XT or something like that which is like 15 yo or something to that effect.

With proper knowledge and determination however you can begin minmaxing your build to be a capable office machining beast, which I've seen done beforealso effectively had to learn to do when I was in a worse spot and it's all I had was a 4c/4t Ivy Bridge low tier. Basically you just know what you're doing and even in a mining craze can find something, like for example the 5700XT sold for higher than a 6700XT just because it was a better mining card, and that went straight down the stacks until you hit 3gb or 2gb VRAM cards that can still theoretically game well enough but were useless for mining.

It's a lot easier doing this because as much as some will try to scam you, others don't know the value what they're holding and assume because it's old it's garbage and will sell for next to nothing.

[Ceejay]

Even if the power settings could magically double the speed of your gt610. It would still not be fast enough. You need a better video card. Essentially you would need the gt610 to be 4x faster than what it is, just to hit bare minimum.

On ebay there are cards starting from around £30 that can run this game(maybe not at the highest settings, but they will play it).