High performance power plan missing from Win10 2004, did you update?

[kpv]

Hello,

I am possibly running into problems since I am still on 1803, Live 11 and couple of plugins are supposed to be run on 1909 or later builds. Users have been reporting that high performance power plan gone missing from 2004 build, others say its still there. Will it even matter? If high performance plan was created on earlier built, will it be maintained on 2004?

I have not found much discussion about this, even though its been a while since 2004 was released. Did you run into CPU problems by updating to 2004? Figuring out driver combinations for optimal DPC latency when my laptop was new in 2018 is something I am not looking forward to doing again if 2004 changes many things under the hood.

I'd really appreciate any input. Lenovo support has not been particularly helpful, as they were hearing about this problem for the first time.

[xbow]

Do you have relatively new hardware? It could be that your hardware/chipset/drivers/bios do not support the kind of fine-grained power settings that we expect to find in Windows power plans. I recently got a Lenovo T14s AMD, which does not have a "high performance" power plan either, just a general one. I can create a new power plan, but it is useless because there are no meaningful settings to tweak in the advanced settings.

Instead, when you click the battery icon in the taskbar tray, there is just a generalized slider which you can set to low/balanced/high performance.

If you want more control, there are three party apps that allow you to set clock speeds, voltages etc. (but I have not tried them extensively).

EDIT: I have an older Laptop with an i5 CPU that still has the old power plans. That's why I think this is related to hardware and drivers rather than a specific version of Windows.

[kpv]

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. I made this thread because high performance is missing from the new laptop provided by my employee. Could you comment on weather or not this has had any affect on how your laptop performs for audio?

[xbow]

Thank you for the reply, I appreciate it. I made this thread because high performance is missing from the new laptop provided by my employee. Could you comment on weather or not this has had any affect on how your laptop performs for audio?

I did not have time to test this extensively or with large projects. But my first impression: after disabling some stuff that interfered with my DPC latency (which you can read about here: https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon), I did not notice any audio dropouts even at low-power settings.

So with a current-gen, powerful CPU I would not expect any issues unless you go crazy with a dozen instances of CPU intensive plugins.

But as I said, I didn't yet have the time to explore this in-depth.

[Pictus]

Do the tweaks and use
https://coderbag.com/product/quickcpu

[chk071]

It's a laptop thing. The additional energy plans were missing on my laptop too.

It's easy to re-add them though. Just create a new energy plan, choose "Based on", or something similar, and then choose the high performance energy plan. As far as I know, you get exactly the same energy plan as with the high performance plan then.

[kpv]

Thanks for the replies. I updated as recommended and the already created high performance plan on 1803 was still available.