orozer0 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} orozer0) wrote,@ 2008-04-25 22:17:00 |
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omfg im a dumbarse :/
Okay so for the past year I've been basically bitching to people about how slow my laptop is becoming, and even contemplated buying a desktop comptuer because I suddenly had the follow restrictions:
Cannot watch an MKV/MP4 H264 AMV or fansub with a resolution greater than 704 x 400.
Cannot edit an AMV with anything except MJPEG.
Cannot do common things with my laptop while a virus scan is happening.
Well one year later, this very moment, I've discovered the problem: Acer laptops have Acer ePower management and there is this option which asks you to specify CPU power when the battery is at certain level. And I see that I somehow, probably accidentally have low setting - pretty much 0% of total CPU potential activated when battery is at 100%. So I drag the bar right across to the right to "high power" and suddenly everything is working great. I don't even get a delay when I try to skim through a large file in VLC player.
I kinda knew I did something like this, been talking to people who were able to view these things on a pentium 3 or 4 and I'm on a dual core 1.
Well err I guess at least I saved a lot of electricity and the bill could have been a lot higher :/ No more avis for me \o/ *watches lag-free Attack of the Otaku for the very first time*
Okay so for the past year I've been basically bitching to people about how slow my laptop is becoming, and even contemplated buying a desktop comptuer because I suddenly had the follow restrictions:
Cannot watch an MKV/MP4 H264 AMV or fansub with a resolution greater than 704 x 400.
Cannot edit an AMV with anything except MJPEG.
Cannot do common things with my laptop while a virus scan is happening.
Well one year later, this very moment, I've discovered the problem: Acer laptops have Acer ePower management and there is this option which asks you to specify CPU power when the battery is at certain level. And I see that I somehow, probably accidentally have low setting - pretty much 0% of total CPU potential activated when battery is at 100%. So I drag the bar right across to the right to "high power" and suddenly everything is working great. I don't even get a delay when I try to skim through a large file in VLC player.
I kinda knew I did something like this, been talking to people who were able to view these things on a pentium 3 or 4 and I'm on a dual core 1.
Well err I guess at least I saved a lot of electricity and the bill could have been a lot higher :/ No more avis for me \o/ *watches lag-free Attack of the Otaku for the very first time*
