Power Settings on Windows 7.

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#1 Roman_UG
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So, apparently going from balanced to high performance made me gain a huge FPS increase in every game.

Crysis 2 on balanced ran at 20-30 FPS on medium at 1920x1080

Now all high at 50+ FPS

Maxed out Metro 2033, 30+ FPS when before I could only play at medium and a low res.

Seriously, I was wondering why my performance was so bad with my specs, and nobody told me to change power settings. I just stumbled across it because my display driver sometimes stopped working and one guy told me to change the settings.

And I closed a bunch of background tasks.


Also, is 70c for an HD 6870 an OK temperature while gaming? How long can it stay at those temps?

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#2 SoraX64
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70c is perfectly normal on a 6870 (I have mine OC'ed and it sometimes gets up towards 80c without problems).
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#3 TheMistique
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power settings is more for laptops..
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#4 gmaster456
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I think maybe closing down the background tasks is whats giving you the extra performance.
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#5 Roman_UG
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Are you sure? My performance sky rocketed, no exaggeration. Went from Crysis 2 at all medium 1920x1080 30 FPS to all high 1920x1080 40+ FPS I can now run Metro 2033 all maxed at 1920x1080 30 FPS from medium at the same FPS. It just feels ridiculous that it was all backgroud tasks, never knew it was such an impact.