Energy Saver not working properly?

[ben26]

Hi folks!
I'm new here, bought the Lasso yesterday, sorry if my English is bad or my question is stupid, but I'm searching for an answer:
Why is the energy saver feature starting to save energy even though there is a process running which I defined to be running on high performance?
I even tested making this process a "multimedia-player" and telling the energy save to deactivate if there's a multimedia-process running but it didn't change anything?!?
I'm really looking forward to an reply, BIG THANKS in advance!
ben

[Jeremy Collake]

It seems this is something that happens in some situations. We are investigating it, and correcting in the next update, which will come very soon (maybe today). I apologize for any trouble in the meantime. You can turn on 'Force mode' in the Options and it may help enforce the default application power profile you set.

[Jeremy Collake]

This was fixed in v5.1.0.36. The issue was that the core engine needed restarted, or the multimedia process restarted, before the new multimedia process would be identified and 'counted'.

[ben26]

Thank you! Unfortunately it still doesn't work. Even though an application that is set to high performance is running, it always goes back to energy save when I do not move my mouse for 5 seconds for example:(

[hanemach_gt]

That was it! I thought it was Power Profile timeout problem. Screen brightness was getting decreased after randomly brief period of time, but it seems like it stopped occurring since 5.1.0.36.

[Jeremy Collake]

Yes, I wish I had slapped this fix on out sooner.. really upsets me. However, haste makes waste, so once a mistake is made, gotta cautiously fix it, else you end up with more mistakes.

[ben26]

Sorry, but I don't understand the last two posts, my english is not the best, what are you trying to say? Did I configure something wrong?

[Jeremy Collake]

Sorry, but I don't understand the last two posts, my english is not the best, what are you trying to say? Did I configure something wrong?

I am sorry, I missed your post. Is the secondary issue you reported about a conflict between Default Power Profiles for processes and Energy Saver what you mean is not working, or are you speaking of the multimedia classified processes?

[ben26]

Hi,
I didn't classify any process as multimedia, this was only for testing.
I simply assigned one process to energy profile high performance, but even if it this process is running the energy save mode kicks in after 5 seconds not moving my mouse.

[Jeremy Collake]

Hi,
I didn't classify any process as multimedia, this was only for testing.
I simply assigned one process to energy profile high performance, but even if it this process is running the energy save mode kicks in after 5 seconds not moving my mouse.

Yes, that is by design. When you move your mouse again, the system should return to the power profile you set for that running process. I may add an additional toggle to disable when processes that have their own default power profiles set are running.

[Jeremy Collake]

@ben26: What I recommend for now is marking any default power profile process as also a 'Multimedia process'. This won't hurt anything. Alternatively, if you turn on Forced Mode, it would force the power profile to stay in place. I am debating the best way to handle user set default application power profiles and Energy Saver. Anyway, like I said, when you move your mouse, it should return to the application default power profile, so it's sort of a matter of whether you want Energy Saver on when these processes are running. Classifying them as Multimedia processes then setting that exclusion in the Energy Saver dialog will suffice quite fine for now I think.