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Process Lasso / Re: Power plans and CoreParking...

« Last post by polymono on May 11, 2013, 01:32:04 PM »

G'day.

OK, so, I tried what you suggested. But it's not improved the situation.

Let me be clear about what I did: I made a new plan, which copied the "Power Saver" profile. Then, I changed the "High Performance" plan so as to exactly match the "Power Saver" plan. Exactly alike, in all categories. No differences whatsoever in the settings. They are duplicates in all ways I am able to change.

But there is still the same substantial performance difference between the two profiles / plans!

I even made sure to change the initially hidden settings... the ones hidden until you click the "Change the settings currently unavailable" button.

What should I take this to mean? The "High Performance" plan has exactly the same settings as the "Power Saver" plan, yet the laptop behaves very differently under them. Still using the "High Performance" plan, performance is bad, and not nearly as sharp and quick as the "Power Saver" plan.

Maybe I need to do the reverse? Like, copy in the other direction?

Or, maybe there's far more settings that control the behaviour of the plans, but which aren't shown in the options area.

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Process Lasso / Re: Power plans and CoreParking...

« Last post by edkiefer on May 11, 2013, 12:32:51 PM »

I don't have a direct answer as don't use that app but here is what I would do to nail down what is going on .

make a custom power profile in windows . you can copy either power saver one and start editing it to the high performance setting it uses .

That is only way I can think, add one by one the higher performance settings into your custom one to find which is problem and use that profile for that app .

Before you edit look and compare settings between power saver and high performance .

Of course if you just want power profile to switch to power saver you can do that with PL, just set it up in option app power profile .

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Process Lasso / Power plans and CoreParking...

« Last post by polymono on May 11, 2013, 11:57:59 AM »

G'day, I'm trying to get my "High Performance" power profile to behave more like my "Power Saver" profile. In the standard Windows power plans area, I've tried to duplicate the settings from the latter plan, into the former plan, but it's made no difference.

This sounds like the reverse of what you think, but in several programs, particularly SketchUp 8, the "Power Saver" profile is so much faster, and more responsive, than the "High Performance". In fact, I'd say the "Power Saver" profile is perfect, but the "High Performance" is slow whilst using some programs in particular. For example, when using the select tool, and drawing out a lasso box in SketchUp, there is a terrible delay when using the "High Performance" power profile. But not at all using the "Power Saver" plan.

Since getting this behaviour, I've formatted and just found that it recurs, formatted again, with it still recurring.

I'm hoping someone here can offer some advice. It sounds like something caused by core parking, and I do have an i7 Asus laptop, running Windows 7. I stumbled onto BitSum when Googling for solutions for the issue.

I've run the stand-alone ParkControl64 program, thinking that core parking could have something to do with it, but the Enabling and Disabling parking seems not to have made a difference. That said, the visualisation / graphs of the % of parking seems very different in the two power profiles. In the "Power Saver" plan, the columns all "fill" at a roughly equal rate, and sit at a roughly equal level. But in the "High Performance" plan, the columns are vastly uneven, with one filling vastly more than the others, and the levels all very varied.

I found the same with power plans in the proprietary Asus "Power4Gear" software which came with my laptop, which just does exactly what the Windows power plans do, but with a fancy GUI. I've since uninstalled it, but could reinstall.

Any ideas at all? I'm desperately keen to resolve this. I'd be grateful for any suggestions or thoughts. Will the "Process Lasso" program be more suitable to diagnose this? I look forward to hearing from someone.

Thanks everyone, P

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Process Lasso / Re: Process Lasso v6.0.3.23 beta config eaten

« Last post by edkiefer on May 11, 2013, 08:42:23 AM »

yes, I put it back to balance to see maybe it doesn't like my custom profile but same thing it doesn't change .

You know I noticed few days ago my profile was on high performance by default . maybe it switched and now out of sync . Though I just tried to change it to HP with a HP app running but it didn't switch or change .

I didn't change or add anything that would stop power profiles That I know of .
As I said I can even do it manually from PL menu so PL is able to switch it just for some reason app power profiles not working here .
Edit: uninstalled it went back to last official 6.0.3.4
that didn't work either ,neither did log app power profile .
went back to 6.0.2.8 and power profile switch ok
 
Did auto-update to beta 6.0.4.5beta
Ok, found issue . in configure app power profile , path method is not working , but if you enter the process name only "calc.exe" it does work . even though path shows correctly in ini .

On issue I am having is log app power profiles is not showing .setting is changing in ini but not showing change in action log window .It is working (changing power profile) .
Also log doesn't show PL info on startup version , company name etc like it used to .

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Process Lasso / Re: Process Lasso v6.0.3.23 beta config eaten

« Last post by BenYeeHua on May 11, 2013, 08:35:25 AM »

Strange power profiles don't work for me . on latest 6.4.0.5beta

The log setting for profiles are enabled .
I have graph open which shows profile . I launch app with HP profile set to switch . I check PL  graph and windows with it running and doesn't change from my profile (custom ).

I even removed said app and reentered it .

Don't using that function yet, will test it now.
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Working here, did you try other default power plans like Powersave, High Performance?
How about other software?

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Process Lasso / Re: Process Lasso v6.0.3.23 beta config eaten

« Last post by edkiefer on May 11, 2013, 08:18:42 AM »

Strange power profiles don't work for me . on latest 6.4.0.5beta

The log setting for profiles are enabled .
I have graph open which shows profile . I launch app with HP profile set to switch . I check PL  graph and windows with it running and doesn't change from my profile (custom ).

I even removed said app and reentered it .

Ok, checked few things but can't figure out the problem . PL is able to change power profile from main menu if I manually do it , so that part is working fine its just what app I have in the list don't seem to work . I add calculator as test base but can't get it to work .

Game mode works fine .

INI file looks ok , whatever I add shows up in PL root folder ini (not in config folder, that one is not updated and changing it doesn't affect it )

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Process Lasso / Re: Feature keystrokes

« Last post by bertie97 on May 11, 2013, 06:23:07 AM »

Just moved to 5b & my config is still intact.   
Power profiles seem to be switching Ok - events are being logged.
So far so good.

Just wanna to ask, did you has any plans for shortcut keys?
Like clicking Ctrl+Tab switch between All processes/Active processes, right click on that process, click T for Trim virtual memory, R for Restart process, P for Politely terminate, F for Forcibly terminate etc.

& ctrl+shift z for destructive format of all drives 

 - Like the idea for a shortcut to call proc terminations

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Process Lasso / Feature keystrokes

« Last post by BenYeeHua on May 11, 2013, 01:50:14 AM »

Just wanna to ask, did you has any plans for shortcut keys?
Like clicking Ctrl+Tab switch between All processes/Active processes, right click on that process, click T for Trim virtual memory, R for Restart process, P for Politely terminate, F for Forcibly terminate etc.

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Process Lasso / Re: Process Lasso v6.0.3.23 beta config eaten

« Last post by Support on May 10, 2013, 11:21:25 PM »

yes app power profile switching . I tested with my default power profile and run game I have it enabled (high performance) and alt-tab and checked no change .

Is it possible that this was simply a side effect of the failed configuration file? It appears to be working, now at least. I'll issue a new build some time in the next few hours.

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Process Lasso / Re: PL and gaming - wow.

« Last post by Support on May 10, 2013, 11:03:57 PM »

This latest beta build is really good. I see that the CPU load is really low and the temp for my two cares are in the 60s and 70s. Never had it that low before. What ever he did for this build of the beta is really good.

Thanks! It is not your imagination. I've rewritten large parts of the 'guts', and fixed a few efficiency issues. The end result is a product that *feels* very much faster, in addition to just being faster. I am still ironing out the new code, fixing bugs and such, but everything is looking really nice.