Processor power management windows 8.1?

[Moiz Mian]

Anyone with a surface pro running 8.1 able to change the minimum and max processor state? For some reason I can't find that setting. I just noticed my processor is running at the full 1.7ghz. The modification really helped my battery life before

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Hmm. Check the tray and the settings for the applications to be displayed under the tray. You can probably also check the Control Panel.

 

[Moiz Mian]

Well. i can go into the battery power profiles from the system tray, and then i can view advanced options, but when i click porcessor power management, i only see the option for system cooling policy. The min/max setting is gone!

 

[juan6996]

Go to the desktop control panel. Then search "power options". Then click on your enabled power plan and change advanced settings. Then click "change settings that are currently unavailable" then click on processor power management, and finally choose the max level for battery and or plugged in. I have mine set to 20% max, but it doesn't feel slow at all.

 

[Moiz Mian]

Go to the desktop control panel. Then search "power options". Then click on your enabled power plan and change advanced settings. Then click "change settings that are currently unavailable" then click on processor power management, and finally choose the max level for battery and or plugged in. I have mine set to 20% max, but it doesn't feel slow at all.

I've checked there. it's still not there

 

[chezm]

Go to the desktop control panel. Then search "power options". Then click on your enabled power plan and change advanced settings. Then click "change settings that are currently unavailable" then click on processor power management, and finally choose the max level for battery and or plugged in. I have mine set to 20% max, but it doesn't feel slow at all.

works on my Pro 2, excellent thanks!! Just adjusted to try out 50% max. Good suggestion

 

[Moiz Mian]

Ughh, yea I had done this a long time ago, and my battery life went up by like 50%. Now the setting is gone. And from what I can tell under task manager. It's not downclocking. So something weird is going on for me

 

[ERFrizki]

it just recently happened to me too.
i can't control minimum/maximum processor speed unlike before.

i wonder why is this happening...

 

[Moiz Mian]

it just recently happened to me too.
i can't control minimum/maximum processor speed unlike before.

i wonder why is this happening...

I figured it out, it's a bad registry setting or something that broke it. I did a refresh which brought it back. Unfortunately it downgraded me to 8.0 and then i had to update to 8.1. In the process I lost all my installed apps :'( All files were still intact though

 

[garak0410]

I've never had this option...ever. Refreshed, got a 256GB Model (passed my 128 model down), no setting and even after 8.1, still not there.

 

[Moiz Mian]

I've never had this option...ever. Refreshed, got a 256GB Model (passed my 128 model down), no setting and even after 8.1, still not there.

That's odd. Yea, i dunno what's up with the setting and why it randomly dissapears/appears for certain people. But do you have a 256 SP2? If so, don't worry about it! Your battery is already better than anything we can achieve with SP1 settings haha

 

[garak0410]

That's odd. Yea, i dunno what's up with the setting and why it randomly dissapears/appears for certain people. But do you have a 256 SP2? If so, don't worry about it! Your battery is already better than anything we can achieve with SP1 settings haha

I've got the original Surface Pro (not 2) with 256GB...they still offer them on the Microsoft Store.

 

[jywang]

The processor min and max is disabled if you have Hyper-V turned on. Hyper-V is automatically turned on if you install Visual Studio 2013 with Windows Phone SDK.

With Hyper-V on, the CPU is always running at full speed. I removed Hyper-V using Add/Remove features and my CPU is back running at slower speed.

John

 

[Moiz Mian]

The processor min and max is disabled if you have Hyper-V turned on. Hyper-V is automatically turned on if you install Visual Studio 2013 with Windows Phone SDK.

With Hyper-V on, the CPU is always running at full speed. I removed Hyper-V using Add/Remove features and my CPU is back running at slower speed.

John

I don't have it anymore, but in case I want to download VS 2013 with WP SDK, can I turn off hyperV and still use VS?

 

[jhoff80]

The processor min and max is disabled if you have Hyper-V turned on. Hyper-V is automatically turned on if you install Visual Studio 2013 with Windows Phone SDK.

With Hyper-V on, the CPU is always running at full speed. I removed Hyper-V using Add/Remove features and my CPU is back running at slower speed.

Again, as I said in your other thread, I think you're incorrect here. It's a reporting issue, not that the CPU is constantly at max speed.

 

[Moiz Mian]

Again, as I said in your other thread, I think you're incorrect here. It's a reporting issue, not that the CPU is constantly at max speed.

I don't think so, when I noticed that I lost my min/max setting, i know for sure that the last time I changed it was to 75%. After I noticed that the setting was gone, I checked task manager, and saw the CPU was hovering around 1.2-1.7ghz. Now that I have the setting back to 75%, it idles at 0.78Ghz.

 

[fosormic]

The processor min and max is disabled if you have Hyper-V turned on. Hyper-V is automatically turned on if you install Visual Studio 2013 with Windows Phone SDK.

With Hyper-V on, the CPU is always running at full speed. I removed Hyper-V using Add/Remove features and my CPU is back running at slower speed.

John

Disabling Hyper-V did the trick for me, thanks John. Yes you can use VS without Hyper-V but you will not be able to use the device emulators (Windows Phone or Windows RT emulation).

I agree that Performance Explorer does show an incorrect CPU speed and that CPU-Z is more accurate. After having "uncovered" this setting, I throttled my cpu to 75% max and CPU-Z keeps reporting as usual, but now Performance Explorer shows the CPU at 70% or so - constant. So, at least its inaccuracy is constant.

 

[mahirgul]

Thanks

 

[JaiMento]

I've got the original Surface Pro (not 2) with 256GB...they still offer them on the Microsoft Store.

As far as I know, there is no 256GB version of the Surface Pro 1.

 

[Derausgewanderte]

As far as I know, there is no 256GB version of the Surface Pro 1.

there is. I believe it was originally released first for the Japanese market.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-holiday-offer-surface-pro-256-gb-for-949-7000024191/
this article mentions Japan....

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043...-surface-pro-variant-aimed-at-businesses.html

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