Posts by PLC

or it may be a oversight/design flaw when completely on battery the CPU runs full power if needed when full battery and AC plugged in same thing when no battery and AC plugged in same thing its possible that Sony did not test the...

also the battery charging power drain to the CPU seems to stop when the battery is around 88% full the flashing charging light goes out and all 3dmark scores are at their highest again

ok i think i figured it out its mostly CPU slowdown i tried the 3dmark03 instead of 3dmark2001... it breaks up CPU score and 3dmark score AC power only my scores were 2700 Battery charging scores were 2550 so this is...

gollum do me a favor: -set power settings to ALWAYS ON -go to PowerPlay Tab and disable it these options will disable speedstep and core/mem changes now try it again with 3dmark 2001 scores should be the same under these...

gollum any word on tests yet? if your battery is charging up and not 100% yet it should display lower 3dmark scores than normal

can other S170 with 9700 owners please test the battery charging theory? run down your battery to 50% while using ALWAYS ON power setting and test your 3dmark scores (doesnt matter which program) then plug in your AC adapter so...

I FOUND the culprit to the strange drops in 3d video performance on the S170 with 9700 Radeon!!!!! Its a very wierd bug that took me several hours of testing.... here is my best explanation maybe someone can put it into more...

no idea how are u switching between omega and stock drivers? vaio recovery media doesnt allow specific driver install does it?

after installing omegadrivers you need to open display properties go to LCD-PANEL properties set it to scale to resolution but keep aspect ratio now it wont look fuzzy and distorted

didnt have powerplay in original out of box setup however i do believe that SONY's special VAIO POWERMANAGEMENT control tab under power properties was accessing the POWERPLAY abilities as under LCD it has power saving feature...