New Alienware 14: Screen brightness issue

Hi Everyone,

I recently got my Alienware 14 with all options (windows 8, 64-bit). Everything seems to work fine excepted the screen brightness that is driving me nuts.

I explain myself here :

1) Whenever I am playing a video game and the battery goes to a low level, my screen brightness suddenly changes to 0 % while I want only the power button to be flashing until i am plugging my computer (i guess that is one of the point of Alien FX)

2) Once the brightness is at 0 % (because of the battery level as mentionned above), I plug the computer and then the brightness goes to the "brightness percentage" I have been setting up in "power options" for "Plugged-in", which is normal.
My problem here is that when the battery is not low anymore (for example 70 %) and that I unplug my computer, the brightness goes down to 0% because of the above issue ! So every single time I need to manually reset my brightness level for "on battery" in "power options".

Thus, because of the first issue (point 1), I am having the second issue that does not make sense (my power options settings should not be definitely changed automatically by the computer and the brightness put 0% as default).
This is annoying me a lot as I am playing everyday on my Alienware.... but I did not find any way to fix this.

So I would really appreciate if someone from this Alienware community could help me on this.

Thank you so much !!!

PS: My brightness is set up at 44 % in both "on battery" and "plugged in". The adaptive brightness is disabled. The dimmed display brightness is at 44 % as well. "Low battery notification" is Off and " low battery action" is on "do nothing".

 

Did you change the settings on Windows and inside the Command Center?

 

None of these systems were made to game on battery. You need to stop gaming on battery.

 

.....as J.Dre states, gaming on battery, especially when the battery is at a very low level is not recommended for best experience!!

 

Hi L-Porras,

Which options should i change exactly ?

The only settings i have modified are the following ones :
Brightness is set up at 44 % in both "on battery" and "plugged in". The adaptive brightness is disabled. The dimmed display brightness is at 44 % as well. "Low battery notification" is Off and " low battery action" is on "do nothing".

 

Thank you guys for your replies. I understand your points, and i guess i will stop playing on battery.
The only thing i do not get is why the my brightness is changed automatically and that i need to change it manually. On top of that, if my battery is full (for any reason), i should at least start on battery and plug the computer whenever needed without having to change again the power settings manually after it gets to 0% brightness.

Moreover, the mouse stops working !!!

So my question is the following one: do you guys have the same issue ? I am sure that once or twice you had to plug your laptops while on gaming modes...