HELP: Drastic FPS drop when switch to high performace

[Parker25poo]

So someone told me to get the most performance out of my desktop, to switch it to high performance. I usually kept it on balanced as I would hit 60+ FPS in games.

Today when I put it in high performance, FPS dropped to the low 20's on every game I tried. Very weird in my opinion but hey I am here to learn. :$

Is going from Balanced to High performance supposed to do this? I have always had a laptop and had kept high performance on, and I understand that to play games. After reading the increase in performance people were getting on desktops, I thought I would go for it, but my results were completely opposite 😕 No other OC programs in the background, or anything to effect hardware what so ever.

I have a AMD FX 8370 (watercooled) , MSI 970 series MB, 16gbs ram, ASUS Strix GTX 970, and a 950 watt Corsair PSU.

CPU max load never hits above 45c degrees
GPU temps 36 idle max I have seen is 69 degrees
Power load is at 65% my PSU when under full load

Anything is appreciated for help on this issue

 

[sm625]

Step 1) Open a command prompt and cd to your desktop

2) Type

powercfg -list > plist.txt

then press enter.

This creates a text file on your desktop which lists the GUIDs of your power profiles.

3) Open the file plist.txt and copy the GUID of the balanced profile.

4) On the command line, type

powercfg -query

then add a space

then paste GUID

and then type

> pbalanced.txt

then press enter.

5) In the file plist.txt, copy the GUID of the high performance profile.

6) On the command line, type

powercfg -query

then add a space

then paste GUID

and then type

> phiperf.txt

then press enter.


Now you will have two text files that contain the two power configurations in question. You just have to compare them to see what's different. You can post the differences here and we can try to figure out what it means, or you could google.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Wondering if selecting "High Performance" power profile, shuts off Cool N Quiet and therefore Turbo on the AMD CPUs, so they no longer Turbo higher, but just sit at max base clock.