Windows 10: help me create an script to run games on high performance

Everytime I run an open world game with balanced power plan, it's sucks. Sure, the easy way it's just to use high performance power plan for everything. The thing is, this waste more energy in the long run. Every time I try to use high performance when I'm playing, I forgot to switch back to balanced when I close the game. The whole reason why I want to create a script to do this it's because I try many thing to make open world games run on balanced mode with no frametime issues, caused by cpu clock slowing down once in a while. I use v-sync, my monitor it's 60hz. Balanced power plan only works properly if I let the game fps free (fast sync or v-sync off). So, about the script, I basically want to run the game through the script making Windows switch to high performance power plan and than switch back to balanced when I close the game.

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help me create an script to run games on high performance

Everytime I run an open world game with balanced power plan, it's sucks. Sure, the easy way it's just to use high performance power plan for everything. The thing is, this waste more energy in the long run. Every time I try to use high performance when I'm playing, I forgot to switch back to balanced when I close the game.

The whole reason why I want to create a script to do this it's because I try many thing to make open world games run on balanced mode with no frametime issues, caused by cpu clock slowing down once in a while. I use v-sync, my monitor it's 60hz. Balanced power plan only works properly if I let the game fps free (fast sync or v-sync off).

So, about the script, I basically want to run the game through the script making Windows switch to high performance power plan and than switch back to balanced when I close the game.

 

help me create an script to run games on high performance

Open a command prompt and run this command:

powercfg /list

On my computer I get the following output:

Power Scheme GUID: 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e (Balanced) *
Power Scheme GUID: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c (High performance)
Power Scheme GUID: a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a (Power saver)

The asterisk indicates that "Balanced" is the active configuration.

Now, create a batch file with the following lines:

Code:

NOTE: In the first line specify the string associated with the "High performance" mode from the "powercfg /list" command. It may be different than mine. On the 3rd line, use that which is associated with "Balanced".

For the command to run your game, you may have to specify the full path. You may want to simply right-click a shortcut that you have for the game and select properties. On the "shortcut" tab, note the command in the "Target" field. Use that.

In theory, I think that should work. Try it and let me know!

 

help me create an script to run games on high performance

It's helps a lot. If you can find anything better, please let me know. I wanna see if I can just open the game switch to high performance, play it, close game game and then switch back to balanced.