Windows 10: Add or Remove Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10

How to: Add or Remove Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10

How to Add or Remove Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10


Starting with Windows 10 Spring Creators Update version 1803 build 17101, Microsoft introduced a new Ultimate Performance power plan scheme.

A new power scheme – Ultimate Performance: Demanding workloads on workstations always desire more performance. As part of our effort to provide the absolute maximum performance were introducing a new power policy called Ultimate Performance. Windows has developed key areas where performance and efficiency tradeoffs are made in the OS. Over time, weve amassed a collection of settings which allow the OS to quickly tune the behavior based on user preference, policy, underlying hardware or workload.

This new policy builds on the current High-Performance policy, and it goes a step further to eliminate micro-latencies associated with fine grained power management techniques. The Ultimate Performance Power plan is selectable either by an OEM on new systems or selectable by a user. To do so, you can go to Control Panel and navigate to Power Options under Hardware and Sound (you can also run Powercfg.cpl). Just like other power policies in Windows, the contents of the Ultimate Performance policy can be customized.

As the power scheme is geared towards reducing micro-latencies it may directly impact hardware; and consume more power than the default balanced plan. The Ultimate Performance power policy is currently not available on battery powered systems.

While Microsoft has restricted the new Ultimate Performance power plan to only be available for the Windows 10 Pro for Workstations build 17101) and later.

This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Ultimate Performance power plan scheme in any version of Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Add "Ultimate Performance" Power Plan in Windows 10 by using Command
• Option Two: To Add "Ultimate Performance" Power Plan in Windows 10 by Importing POW file
• Option Three: To Remove "Ultimate Performance" Power Plan in Windows 10

EXAMPLE: Ultimate Performance power plan added and removed










OPTION ONE [/i] To Add "Ultimate Performance" Power Plan in Windows 10 by using Command

*note This option is only available in Windows 10 version 1803 and later.
1. Open a command prompt.

2. Copy and paste the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61
3. You can now close the command prompt if you like.



4. Users on the PC will now be able to select the "Ultimate Performance" power plan as their active power plan.





OPTION TWO [/i] To Add "Ultimate Performance" Power Plan in Windows 10 by Importing POW file

*note You must be signed in as an Option One will not work for you.
1. Click/tap on the download button below to download the Ultimate_Performance.zip file.
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2. Save the Ultimate_Performance.zip file to your desktop.

3. Unblock the Ultimate_Performance.zip file.

4. Open the Ultimate_Performance.zip file, and extract (drag and drop) the Ultimate_Performance.pow file to your desktop.

5. Open an elevated command prompt.

6. Type the command below into the elevated command prompt, and press Enter to import the power plan. (see screenshot below)
*Arrow powercfg -import "Full path of .pow file"

*note Substitute Full path of .pow file in the command above with the actual full path of the Ultimate_Performance.pow file from step 4.

For example: powercfg -import "C:\Users\Brink\Desktop\Ultimate_Performance.pow"




7. When finished, you can close the elevated command prompt if you like.

8. Users on the PC will now be able to select the "Ultimate Performance" power plan as their active power plan.





OPTION THREE [/i] To Remove "Ultimate Performance" Power Plan in Windows 10
1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), click/tap on the Power Options icon.

2. Click/tap on the Change plan settings link for the Ultimate Performance power plan. (see screenshot below)

*note If the Ultimate Performance power plan is currently selected as your active plan, then you will need to select (dot) a different plan to be your active plan first.



3. Click/tap on the Delete this plan link. (see screenshot below)



4. Click/tap on OK to confirm. (see screenshot below)



5. You can now close the "Edit Plan Settings" window if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Choose a Power Plan Scheme in Windows 10
• How to Create a Custom Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Export and Import a Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Delete a Power Plan in Windows 10
• How to Restore Missing Default Power Plans in Windows 10

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Add or Remove Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10  

I'd be interested keep me posted please?

What Ultimate is suppose to do, that's different from High Performance is cut out/reduce micro latencies .

So another possibility is it forces Windows to use the HPET timer over system timer, if present in BIOS.

 

High Performance Power Plan and Ultimate Performance Power Plan.

What is the real difference between the High Performance Power Plan and Ultimate Performance Power Plan?

 

Windows 10 Performance Power Plan Not Working

Hello Nik, *Smile

Are you using the Ultimate performance power plan?

Add or Remove Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10

 

High Performance Power Plan and Ultimate Performance Power Plan.

The second link says you can enable it anyway, so I'd try it if you think your rig might benefit. It just gives the hardware all the power it can use.

But do read everything about it first. More here including benchmarks and feedback:

https://www.slashgear.com/windows-10-pro-ultima...

https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=...

https://www.tweakhound.com/2018/05/08/windows-1...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/15/17015674/mic...

 

Add or Remove Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10  

Now that I updated my system to RP ring powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61 worked great for me