Battery is sub-par for Triton 500

retroceptor

Hello all,

I remember when I first bought the Triton 500 (RTX 2060 version) in Febraury and I know for a fact that when I went battery only it estimated about 5-6h of use (no gaming).
It knew how to switch to Intel GPU, I could see that in Windows taskbar.

Now if I do the same I get about 2h, again with the RTX GPU inactive, I can  see it's inactive, which is great.
I'm also going 25% brightness and with the most Power Saving battery mode. How the hell do I get only 2h and before, in February ~6h with less optimal settings?

Is GSync to be blamed here? I cannot find any info about this in BIOS or otherwise (I do have that old school BIOS, no UEFI how come?)

Thanks!

JackE

Go to the elevated command prompt.  Enter 'powercfg /batteryreport'. Then return to the desktop. Open file explorer. Then search for' battery-report.html' in the c:\windows\system32\ sub-folder. Double-click to open it in the browser. Compare design capacity with full charge capacity. Post screenshot if possible. Jack E/NJ

retroceptor

Ok, I have this:

CHEMISTRY	LION
DESIGN CAPACITY	82,080 mWh
FULL CHARGE CAPACITY	83,615 mWh
CYCLE COUNT	-

retroceptor

and this one:

JackE

>>>I do have that old school BIOS, no UEFI how come?>>>

How come? It's because you have a new school UEFI bootstrapper without a Legacy BIOS option --- the wave of the future.  BTW, your battery seems super-fine. Whatever you're doing now on battery alone simply ain't the same as what you were doing on battery alone back in Feb.  Jack E/NJ

retroceptor

Cheers for the answers JackE.

Well I only watch come Youtube and browse sites, nothing fancy, same as before. Windows 10 does have a battery usage info screen (just like on Android phones) and every time I checked there it was Chrome who had 30-50% of battery usage, rest of the apps between 1-5%.

Still, I do find the 2h estimate very bad as it's an 80WHr battery and this review (rtx2060 version) seems to mirror my experience from February -->

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3393157/acer-predator-triton-500-review-with-geforce-rtx.html 

"With its 82-watt-hour battery, the Predator Triton 500 comes in just under 6 hours of playback time. Overall we’d rate it at decent. It’s a little lower than comparably sized powerful laptops, but still quite good. "

JackE

Watch what's going on in Task Manager for unnecessary background processes that are chewing up battery charge with inordinate amounts of CPU and Disk usage. Perhaps you've got some non-Microsoft antimalware running that you really don't need with Defender and MSRT already on the machine. Also set Control Panel's power plan back to balanced mode or power saver mode if it's in performance mode. Doesn't seem like you need it. Jack E/NJ

Commodore_1995#

You can also check whether the cause of the battery time decreases, whether it is some program or service that you have currently installed:

Uncheck all and take the test!

retroceptor

Have been away for the last 3-4 days, but thanks guys, i'll check task manager out.

As far as battery settings I always go for the Batter Saving option when on battery.

Commodore_1995#

Post the result here!