cards whether it is for gaming or just multimedia purposes. I
have always been using their desktop version of graphic card
until recently when I am forced to use their mobile version of
graphic card on a laptop due to travel reasons.
So what is the problem here? There should be none since I am
pretty satisfied with their previous card so changing to a
mobile graphic card should not present any problems. I was
wrong. There seems to be a little culprit hiding in the driver
of my mobile version graphic card. Visit
mizer.html">Disable Powermizer to know more about Nvidia
Powermizer and how to solve the problem.
Like most things there is a good and bad side to it. Same goes
to this culprit I mentioned call Nvidia Powermizer. For some
user they might not even notice the effect of Nvidia Powermizer
and it might even be good for them. Why? it is because Nvidia
Powermizer will help you prevent your graphic card from
overheating after some period of usuge. Nvidia Powermizer also
helps in saving some battery life on your laptop when your
graphic card does not seem to need so much performance out of it.
So what is so bad about Nvidia Powermizer? Nvidia powermizer is
bad for gaming. You will experience the drop in performance all
of a sudden usually after about half an hour of gaming. This is
annoying when you are in the mist of battle. There is no way to
make your mobile graphic card go back to the full performance
again unless you restart your computer or restart the graphic
card from the device manager. So that basically means you have
to get out half way from your game.
I notice this effect more often when I am in a hotter country
since your laptop will be in higher temperature to start with.
If you are not gaming then you will not even notice this effect
at all. By gaming I am talking about graphic intensive 3D games
like Crysis, Far Cry 2, Warhammer 40K Dawn of War 2 and any
other older games that will stress your graphic card.
Note that thie Nvidia Powermizer effect is only a problem to
Windows Vista users as you can swith off Nvidia Powermizer in XP
just by going into the graphic card driver. If you are a Vista
user you can head over to
mizer.html">Disable Powermizer to learn how to stop this
Nvidia Powermizer.
