Drop in FPS when playing games

Hello,

I have a MSI GS60 and for a while now I've been having an FPS drop when playing on battery. This is usual because I set a limit on it with the NVIDIA GeForce Experience Battery Boost feature. Recently I took off the feature but I still have low FPS on battery. What's worse is that even when I plug in the charger while playing whatever game, the FPS still stays at a lower rate than usual. The only way to get the FPS at a normal rate is to have the charger plugged in before I start up the program which I forget to do sometimes.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this? I've tried to look at all the performance settings that I know of. On my previous laptop changing the settings in the power options in the battery icon on windows made a difference but the GS60 does not make a difference making me believe there is another program that was pre-loaded that is causing this limitation.

Thank you for your time.

 

This is normal and you can't squeeze any fps out of battery at all.
The battery is weak on power wattage thus only the critical components such as processor receives priority.
Battery pack provides 50W while AC adapter provides 150W so there's 100W difference here.

 

Alright, but when I plug back in the charger, my FPS does not improve, but rather stays at the same rate as if the charger was not plugged in. That cannot be normal right? Do you know a fix to that?

 

If ur battery power is less than 30% than it may be that Hybrid Power can't be activated even when u plug it back in.

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What's the battery level at the time of plug in?
Have you exited the game then re-run it?
Please verify.

 

The battery level was as high as 95% a few times. I have exited the game and re-ran it to fix it, which it does. But is there a fix where I don't have to exit the game? This happens when I play League of Legends which I cannot quit mid-game.

 

Current state is like this.
"At current performance state -> high perf battery state, it cannot be changed even though an extra amount of power (from AC) becomes available, until the system is released from high-perf battery state then it can switch to high-perf AC state.

It is possible that it can be enhanced so it can switch smarter but it is up to MSI entirely.