Windows 11 power plan

[%a]

Hey so in,
Settings > System > Power
it has 3 options
Best power efficiency, balanced, best performance what is the best mode to select for gaming? smooth FPS etc.

[Viking2121]

Well It don't matter to much, but of course the best performance option will keep CPU clocks up so the FPS could have the potential to be smoother, though in testing it really don't matter much.

[Omega]

Balanced, otherwise it will use a lot more power at idle for no real gain. The performance benefits of performance mode are miniscule.

[GunsForBucks]

Typically I go with best performance.

Rather have it zipping along rather than "oh I gotta speed up now"

Also some games that don't hyperthread well and use one core a lot of the time you want it maxed.

Mostly notice when maybe hiding in cover and not moving then suddenly wanting to jump out suddenly. Typically if the action is fast all the time it will keep itself up there on lower settings anyway. But like Kerbal Space Program you see a difference keeping it maxed.

[[☥] - CJ -]

They pretty much just change a couple things, how long it takes for the monitor to turn off when idle, or when the PC to goes into sleep mode etc so on

High/Best Performance is fine.

You could always test the performance of games between the 3 power plans, but yeah.

Smooth FPS depends more on your actual hardware than what power plan is used.

[Omega]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

They pretty much just change a couple things, how long it takes for the monitor to turn off when idle, or when the PC to goes into sleep mode etc so on

High/Best Performance is fine.

You could always test the performance of games between the 3 power plans, but yeah.

Smooth FPS depends more on your actual hardware than what power plan is used.

Biggest difference would be that it will always run the CPU at max non-boost clock speed by default. This behavior can however differ per CPU.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

None of them. You are supposed to click the option to make your own. Then base it off of High Performance. Then edit it so the HDD timer is set to 0 / None

If all you see are those 3 options; power saving, balanced, high performance;; this tells me you did not install the official chipset drivers. Because on most Desktop Motherboard once you've done that and restart Windows, you should have power profiles in there from Intel or AMD.

[Viking2121]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

None of them. You are supposed to click the option to make your own. Then base it off of High Performance. Then edit it so the HDD timer is set to 0 / None

If all you see are those 3 options; power saving, balanced, high performance;; this tells me you did not install the official chipset drivers. Because on most Desktop Motherboard once you've done that and restart Windows, you should have power profiles in there from Intel or AMD.

No you don't, AMD no longer has a power plan for 2000 series and up, Intel only has an intel specific profile with the e core CPU's.

And if in settings on Windows 11, you do not see them profiles, its just a slider with 3 options.

Maybe actually doing some research or first hand experience would help, other than that idk what you problem is with spreading mis-information, Causing more problems, typical...

[Rod]

Max power/perf in windows and nvidia for gaming. You said gaming not battery. I dont care about idle power if its gaming dont idle power off problem solved.

I will find any in the bios like c states and disable them as well.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Viking2121:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

None of them. You are supposed to click the option to make your own. Then base it off of High Performance. Then edit it so the HDD timer is set to 0 / None

If all you see are those 3 options; power saving, balanced, high performance;; this tells me you did not install the official chipset drivers. Because on most Desktop Motherboard once you've done that and restart Windows, you should have power profiles in there from Intel or AMD.

No you don't, AMD no longer has a power plan for 2000 series and up, Intel only has an intel specific profile with the e core CPU's.

And if in settings on Windows 11, you do not see them profiles, its just a slider with 3 options.

Maybe actually doing some research or first hand experience would help, other than that idk what you problem is with spreading mis-information, Causing more problems, typical...

You can still run powercfg.cpl to get the same Power Options control panel with the full functionality that was in Windows 7. Settings is a very dumbed down interface for power profiles.

[YoSoyJosh]

Originally posted by Viking2121:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

None of them. You are supposed to click the option to make your own. Then base it off of High Performance. Then edit it so the HDD timer is set to 0 / None

If all you see are those 3 options; power saving, balanced, high performance;; this tells me you did not install the official chipset drivers. Because on most Desktop Motherboard once you've done that and restart Windows, you should have power profiles in there from Intel or AMD.

No you don't, AMD no longer has a power plan for 2000 series and up, Intel only has an intel specific profile with the e core CPU's.

And if in settings on Windows 11, you do not see them profiles, its just a slider with 3 options.

Maybe actually doing some research or first hand experience would help, other than that idk what you problem is with spreading mis-information, Causing more problems, typical...

You dont get it. They have to chime their opinion no matter what

[Blaagh]

there is no GAIN for gaming.. you will not see any improvement picking high performance.

when the pc runs games it goes to full power

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Viking2121:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

None of them. You are supposed to click the option to make your own. Then base it off of High Performance. Then edit it so the HDD timer is set to 0 / None

If all you see are those 3 options; power saving, balanced, high performance;; this tells me you did not install the official chipset drivers. Because on most Desktop Motherboard once you've done that and restart Windows, you should have power profiles in there from Intel or AMD.

No you don't, AMD no longer has a power plan for 2000 series and up, Intel only has an intel specific profile with the e core CPU's.

And if in settings on Windows 11, you do not see them profiles, its just a slider with 3 options.

Maybe actually doing some research or first hand experience would help, other than that idk what you problem is with spreading mis-information, Causing more problems, typical...

Classic Control Panel anyone?

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Blaagh:

there is no GAIN for gaming.. you will not see any improvement picking high performance.

when the pc runs games it goes to full power

That is because Game Mode by default invokes High Performance, and even if not the CPU will still speed up based on demand.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Game Mode generally doesn't do anything unless a full screen 3D hardware accelerated app is running, in which case you would want high performance power profile to always run in such a case as that. It's not just about cpu clocks; the different profiles have different settings for sleep/hibernate, display timer, drive timers, etc. If you select anything other then high performance then you want to edit the profile and turn off all the stupid junk, sleep, hibernate, screen turning off, drive sleep timer; etc.

[%a]

when i went to best performance my FPS went to 60FPS on balanced it was 55.