Neverness to Everness — Windows power plan actually changed my frame times

Quick one for the people who have put more hours into this than me. The default settings are clearly tuned for a different setup than mine.

Corrections welcome, especially if I got a detail wrong.

Quick correction to the above: the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

In my testing, it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

Not the answer you want, but do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Not the answer you want, but worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Adding to the above: you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, if it only happens in one mode, that narrows it down considerably.

Agreed on most of this, except nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

This comes up a lot, so: verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, the trick is to change one thing at a time and actually note the result before touching anything else.

This is the bit people miss — worth testing on a second account to rule out something profile-specific.

Report back once you have tried it.

Worth checking first: verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Same boat here. you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Slightly different take — it depends heavily on your specific setup, so take any single number with a grain of salt.

In my testing, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.