GiMeSpace Power Control Pro

When you want to save battery life on a laptop or save energy and have a cool and quiet computer it is best to use that "Power Saver" energy scheme. However, sometimes you want to use the full power of your computer when loading programs or performing specific CPU intensive tasks. Not even the "Balanced" energy scheme allows you to have the best of both worlds.

This program is switching automatic between low and high power energy plans depending on the load of the CPU, which programs you are using, if the system is idle or overheated. This way you will always save energy when no power is needed, but also make all power available once the system needs it. The program itself has been made in such a way that it has no impact on the CPU load at all, so you only save more energy by running it.

On the top part of the GiMeSpace Power Control window you can select the 3 power schemes you want to use. Iit can be the system default schemes or custom schemes. It is recommended to use the "Balanced" as the high power scheme. "Balanced" provides more dynamic CPU frequency adjustments then the "High Performance" scheme: You get more often higher boost frequencies in the "Balanced" scheme. However if you need more continues high frequencies you better select the "High Performance" scheme or “Ultimate” scheme. For the low scheme you can select "Power Saver" if your high scheme was "Balanced" or "Balanced" if your high scheme was “Performance”. The Lowest scheme should always be "Power Saver" to make sure boost frequencies are not used so the CPU can cool down when overheated, idle or on battery.

Next you can adjust the CPU loads that triggers a switch between the schemes. The low setting is the percentage that will cause a switch to the low power scheme if the CPU load drops below this number. Around 15 to 20% usually works well. The high setting is the percentage that will cause a switch to the high power scheme if the CPU load goes above this number. Around 70 to 80% usually works well. Please note that once a switch to the high power scheme has been made the CPU load drops automatic because there is more CPU capacity available on a higher frequency.

If you want to save more energy and battery life or if you want to make more power available to the foreground programs then you can select that option. It will set background processes in eco mode on low priority so not to waste too much cpu time. It is also possible to auto-detect background processes that need more cpu power and boost them as well. Then there is also an option to request boosted programs and processes to run only on performance cores.

In the power profiles tab you can specify which programs need to run under which power schemes and optionally also specify core affinity and process and I/O scheduling priority.

In the Edit Hidden Settings tab you are now able to change all the settings of all the power schemes, even the settings that are normally hidden.