Nitro 5 AN515-56 Acer's battery charge limit reduces your fps?

Kenny1234
Kenny1234 Member Posts: 6

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edited January 2022 in Nitro Gaming
Hi, so i just got this Acer Nitro, and I enabled the battery charge limit in care center to prolong my laptop's battery life. But as soon as I enable it and leave it down to 80%, the performance of my laptop dropped dramatically, it feels slow, sluggish and fps in all of my game is really bad (literally unplayable). Is it true that this feature do this? The battery icon shows that it is "80% available (plugged in)" and the battery light near the monitor is off, am I doing anything wrong? Thanks a lot in advance

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  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,292 Pathfinder
    @Kenny1234 battery charger limit should not affect the performance. Try to update the BIOS first to see it helps.
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  • Erick-Acer_Retired
    Erick-Acer_Retired Member Posts: 503 Seasoned Practitioner WiFi Icon

    Hi @ Kenny1234Please mention your model name of unit 
  • Kenny1234
    Kenny1234 Member Posts: 6

    Tinkerer
    Hi @Acer-Erick this is my laptop's model: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-56

  • Kenny1234
    Kenny1234 Member Posts: 6

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    @AnhEZ28 it decrease my fps in-game and the overall performance of the laptop, everything feels sluggish. When I disable the feature and charge it up to 100%, everything goes back to normal. Side note: the battery icon says that it is "80% available (plugged in)"
  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,292 Pathfinder
    @Kenny1234 try to reinstall Acer Care Center App or update the BIOS.
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  • Kenny1234
    Kenny1234 Member Posts: 6

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    @AnhEZ28 I did reinstall Acer Care Center App, but how do I update the bios?


  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,292 Pathfinder
    @Kenny1234https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/8878?b=1 here in BIOS/Firmware section
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  • Kenny1234
    Kenny1234 Member Posts: 6

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    @AnhEZ28 "Upgrading your system BIOS incorrectly could harm your Acer product. Please proceed with caution." is this a good choice to make? And which one should I choose? There are multiples

  • AnhEZ28
    AnhEZ28 ACE, Member Posts: 4,292 Pathfinder
    @Kenny1234 it will be safe if you keep your laptop plugged in during BIOS update and do not power off. You can take the latest one which is 1.08.
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  • Kenny1234
    Kenny1234 Member Posts: 6

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    @AnhEZ28 ty for the help, I will try it 
  • mhasandx
    mhasandx Member Posts: 47 Devotee WiFi Icon
    did you find any solution yet?

  • blizboiz
    blizboiz Member Posts: 2 New User
    edited June 2022
    Maybe you can try changing Power Management in Nvidia Control Panel and set it to Prefer Maximum Performance. This solution worked for me.  In my case, The game will stutter as soon as the battery's LED light appear orange and get back to normal when it disappear and repeat the step. By change this option (My assume) Looks like the laptop will ignore about maintaining battery's power (of course your battery still drain while performing heavy task such as gaming) but at least no stutter FPS (Unless your battery is lower than 50% then the problem will occur again).

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