HELP: Drastic frame drop when switching 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

 

[Annisman*]

Wait, what high performance mode are you talking about ? Whatever it is if it worked fine before just switch it back.

 

[kasakka]

I think he means Windows power options. If you check the different settings on different plans you'll notice that the "high performance" seems to basically disable variable clock speeds (both minimum and maximum are set to 100%) as well as a few other options.

Just use balanced as it seems to have more sensible defaults and adjust the settings if needed.

 

[BSim500]

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.

False information. The maximum clock rate should be the same on both. All "max perf" does it cause the CPU to run hotter when idle. You won't see any "under load" improvement as both Intel & AMD's "underclock when idle" power management have long sorted out the early performance reduction issues from over a decade ago.

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. :$

Control Power -> Power Options -> Change Plan Settings -> Advanced Power Settings, and under "Process Power Management", make sure "Maximum Processor State" is 100%.

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.

That's probably the worst thing you could to any laptop! Set it back to "Balanced" - it'll run the same speed but your battery life will probably double when not playing games. As long as Maximum Processor State is set to 100% in Balanced, it'll already run full speed without disabling idle state energy saving features.

Edit: They really should rename "High Performance" to a more honest "Battery Crippling" or "Unwanted Room Heater" to match it's actual function.

 

[KingFatty]

Maybe the high performance setting causes the laptop to get hot enough under idle conditions such that, when you play the game, it's just too much heat and the laptop itself applies its own throttling to the cpu and gpu combo, resulting in low scores?

Maybe try adding a laptop cooling pad, or something that lets the laptop stay cooler. Putting on balanced would also let the laptop cool down when it's not under load, so that it's cooler when it goes under load.