Dolphin Lags on Battery Mode Only

[Black Shadow]

Hi, I've been using Dolphin for a few months now and I've been able to run it amazingly. However, last night after unplugging my charger while playing, Dolphin started to lag. I can now only get around 20-30 Fps when running Dolphin on battery mode, this was never an issue before.

Things I've tried:

Configuring Dolphin in my GPU's Control Panel
Switching to High Performance mode (I've always been able to play fine on Balanced mode though...)
Setting Dolphin's priority to high
Switching from OpenGL to Direct3D and vice versa (Direct3D seems to be giving me somewhat better results, but in certain parts of the game it's lagging where it normally wouldn't. I've been able to use both just fine at first)
Checking what my CPU is running at when I run Dolphin. It's running at a reasonable rate and there's not much of a difference when I plug in the charger, yet the charger seems to make it not lag...
Lowering the graphics settings
Checking to see if PCSX2 runs normally, and for some reason it is. Dolphin's the only thing that seems to be acting up.
Deleting all Dolphin versions and getting them again

My GPU's driver was recently updated, and that actually improved a problem I had with 5886's exclusive fullscreen mode, and everything else seemed to be working fine. Other than that it ran beautifully for the past few months, until last night when I unplugged my charger while playing it. I'd rather not have to keep my laptop plugged in when it doesn't need charging just to play on Dolphin :/. Any solutions?

Windows 8.1 x64
Processor/CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4700HQ CPU @2.40GHz 2.40GHz (Turbo boost to about 3.5, it seems to use it on battery mode too)
Video Card/GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 860m
Memory/RAM: 16.0 GB
Dolphin Revision Currently Using: 652 Netplay/5886

[cyrax33]

That is because since you are on a laptop you have to be plugged in order to run Dolphin at max, if you do so you will throttle. Search for Laptop Performance Guide on the search bar and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[KHg8m3r]

This: https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-unofficial-laptop-performance-guide

[Black Shadow]

(03-28-2015, 12:49 AM)cyrax33 Wrote: That is because since you are on a laptop you have to be plugged in order to run Dolphin at max, if you do so you will throttle. Search for Laptop Performance Guide on the search bar and you'll see what I'm talking about.

But that still doesn't explain why I was able to run Dolphin great for the past few months at first, not being plugged in was never an issue before. I've already checked the laptop performance guide :/ .

[KHg8m3r]

I remember reading that a Nvidia Driver update forced their battery saving mode to always turn on when on battery.

[Black Shadow]

(03-28-2015, 01:13 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: I remember reading that a Nvidia Driver update forced their battery saving mode to always turn on when on battery.

That's interesting. If that's the case, it would make the most sense since my driver was updated only a few days ago. Odd that PCSX2 still functions properly on battery though. Is there a way to configure that to turn that off?

[cyrax33]

(03-28-2015, 01:27 AM)Black Shadow Wrote:

(03-28-2015, 01:13 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: I remember reading that a Nvidia Driver update forced their battery saving mode to always turn on when on battery.

That's interesting. If that's the case, it would make the most sense since my driver was updated only a few days ago. Odd that PCSX2 still functions properly on battery though. Is there a way to configure that to turn that off?

Dolphin is more demanding than PCSX2 thus requiring more power. There might be a way to disable the feature while on battery but I wouldn't know since Nvidia sends out updates from time to time and is not recommended.

[Aleron Ives]

(03-28-2015, 01:27 AM)Black Shadow Wrote: Is there a way to configure that to turn that off?

If nVidia forced it in a driver update, you'd probably have to roll back your driver to the last version before the update and then not update again.

[Forgottenkey]

(03-28-2015, 01:27 AM)Black Shadow Wrote:

(03-28-2015, 01:13 AM)KHg8m3r Wrote: I remember reading that a Nvidia Driver update forced their battery saving mode to always turn on when on battery.

That's interesting. If that's the case, it would make the most sense since my driver was updated only a few days ago. Odd that PCSX2 still functions properly on battery though. Is there a way to configure that to turn that off?

Just go to GeForce experience settings and turn off battery boost setting, forgot exactly what its called but youll know when you see it. Had this problem a while ago.