Plugging in your laptop for more FPS
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What it does
Gaming with the charger plugged in instead of on battery — and making sure Windows is not in a battery-saver power mode.
The honest verdict
On a laptop this is one of the biggest free FPS swings there is, and it is completely real. Running on battery, the laptop deliberately throttles the CPU and GPU hard to save power and heat — you can lose a third or more of your frames versus plugged in. Plug in the charger, set Windows to its 'Best performance' power mode, and in the laptop maker's app (like Armoury Crate or Lenovo Vantage) pick the performance or turbo profile. The frames come back instantly, and you can switch it all back the moment you unplug. If your laptop still feels slow while plugged in, that is a separate thing — usually heat (clean the vents, raise the back for airflow) or the game running on the integrated GPU instead of the dedicated one.
How Compy treats it
Where it genuinely fits a rig, Compy can recommend it — applied with a snapshot first and a one-click rollback after, like every change it makes.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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