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
Graded real. 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. …
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 full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 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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