Windows 10: should i set the game to high performance mode

i have an alienware 17 r5 laptop which has switchable graphics which are nvidia geforce gtx 1080 and intel card

when i play some games i will get the geforce overlay popup in the upper right telling me to press alt and z if i want to use geforce experience in game. the popup shows when i launch the game. if that popup shows then that should mean that the game is using the nvidia card

however in some games there is no overlay popup in the upper right. when that happens i am not sure which graphics card the game uses. some games are stupid and they try to use the intel card and the game will slow down and freeze. that has happened to me before with one game and there was no overlay popup for that game when i launched it. i had to force that game to use the nvidia card by setting the game to high performance mode in the graphics setting which is under display settings in windows and after that the game worked ok

should i always set the game to high performance mode when i dont get the overlay popup when i launch the game just in case the game is stupid and it tries to use my intel card?

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Lauching games forcing power plan to be set in High Performance mode


I think I may have found the culprit in my case: Avast Antivirus.

I'm assuming this is a change to their "Game Mode". I went to Performance>Game Mode>Settings. Then under Performance there is a "Trigger high performance" which says "switches power plan when you play to prefer performance at the cost of battery".

Thanks for adding a new feature that require I waste time on fixing it, Avast!

 

High Performance Mode icon dissapeared

Hi

Last Sunday i've updated my Windows 10 and i lost my high performance mode icon in the toolbar hidden icon it was a yellow plane like icon and the icon is not airplane mode. some suggestion where it might be gone?

Thanks

 

Lauching games forcing power plan to be set in High Performance mode


Hello All,
Long time stalker, but first time poster. I have a new rig Intel i7 7700K, Asus Prime Z270AR, Samsung Evo 850 1Tb, Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200MHz 16Gb Ram, EVGA Geforce Gtx 1080 SC. I have been dealing with an issue where launching a game forces the power plan to change from "Balanced" to "High Performance" mode. Additionally, while in "High Performance" mode, speedstep does not work and my CPU clock speed is stuck at 4.45GHz. Has anyone run into this issue? Thanks in advance!