Low Performance on Battery even with High Performance selected

[setsunafray15]

Bought a new ASUS TP550LJ Laptop. Runs great when plugged in with High Performance selected. Use it to play SC2 and what not... getting 60-100fps.

When unplugged however, it drops to 15-60fps and I also made sure high performance was selected for power plan. Configed NVIDIA properties to be High Performance too.

Contacted ASUS and the tech said thats just the way my model of laptop is built. Performance will drop when not plugged in. He suggested trying power4gear.

Does anyone know if that Utility is any good or another way around it?

 

[popatim]

It may not even be a way around the problem. Many laptops reduce power consumption when unplugged automatically. My gamin laptop reduces gpu clocks and shuts down half the gpu cores.

 

[jaguarskx]

Nothing you can really do since that is how dedicated GPUs are designed to operate when using the battery.