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Also, batterymon showed that although it says both are in use, one battery will only be drawing < 100mw and the other is driving the system. So although windows reports both batteries are draining, only 1 is actually draining at full rate.

Try using a tool like batterymon which provides detailed battery information, including the amount of charge and rate of charge for each battery separately. My dGPU i7 showed that it splits the power evenly and charges both batteries up whenever they were both low, and would always charge the...

This isn't a solution at all. You're just using hibernate, which has existed for years on all machines. You're ultimately not using a feature that the machine hardware supports, because the vendors can't provide proper drivers. Not sure why folks think it is acceptable to use hibernate on...

I purchased the morning of as well, and Dell just bumped my delivery date from 10/29 to 11/8. Has anyone's venue 8 pro actually shipped? The device, not the accessories or anything else.

Yeah, really intrigued to know what settings allow you to get 7+ hours on a surface PRO and the screen on...

You need Origin client 9.1.14. There's an official client that was linked during the Beta that fixes the virtual environment issue. This is the origin client, so you have to remove your previous origin client and leverage this. Here's the link to the original forum post: EA Forums Scroll down...

It's the settings in windows 8 for "Microphone Boost", turn that down to 0.0dB and you should get proper audio from the microphone. Goto Desktop -> Swipe from right -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Sound -> Recording Tab -> Select the Microphone that is default device (the other should say...

also when hyperv is enabled the processor no longer speed steps or turbo boosts and gets locked to 1.7ghz, very annoying and kills battery life