whiteladder Posted February 19, 2024 Posted February 19, 2024 Ok so this is a very niche problem, but just in case anyone else comes across a similar issue. We had an old lenovo P50 laptop come into work to be scrapped, battery was charging slowly and wouldn't hold the charge very long, with a clean install of windows and latest drivers it was running dcs at 70 fps, admittedly with low graphic setting. Opening the nvidia control panel made this drop to less than 10 fps, and to only way to get it back to 70 fps was a fresh install of windows and the device drivers. What was happening was when the nvidia control panel was opening it was checking the battery, seeing a problem with it and setting the power consumption of the graphics card to low to try and allow the battery to charge( overriding the windows and nvidia battery settings set to performance and not power saving). When I removed the battery and ran the laptop on just the mains it went straight back to 70 fps. With the battery in back to 10fps So if you have an older laptop and the battery has seen better days it might be having an unforseen effect on your performance. 1
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