My acer swift x SFX14-41G is draining battery so fast( 2 hours of battery)

dcuri

My notebook used to have almost 8 hours of battery life during balanced power mode, and now it has only 2 hours aproximately. i used to disable the battery drivers and nvidia drivers in the device manager and enable them again, and it solved the problem for a period, but now even this isn`t solving it.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/684508/my-acer-swift-x-sfx14-41g-is-draining-battery-so-fast-2-hours-of-battery

Your Swift model, according to some web reviews, comes with a large 59 Wh battery and big 90W power adapter. Check if that is what you have. Run Windows Battery Report in the command prompt

powercfg /batteryreport /output %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\battery_report.html

Double click on the report on your Desktop and check what the last Full Charged Capacity (100%) reads if this is only 30 Wh your battery wear is 50%, which is normal after 2-3 years heavy use. You probably should replace it next year.

Don't play games on battery only with your powerful NVIDIA card but always have your power adapter plugged in. If somehow you drained the battery close to zero charge (Power Plan should be set to hibernate below 8 or10%) it may have damaged a cell so check your advanced Power Plan settings.

billsey

Also, and perhaps more importantly, look at what you have running and how that might affect battery life. In almost all cases where the life changes fairly abruptly it's because an app or driver starts using a lot more power. Look especially at what's using the network, at how bright the screen is set to and what might be reading and writing to the drive a lot.