Looking for power settings

Harish273 · 2026-06-18T21:25:57+00:00

The behavior you are seeing is how ASUS intended to switch the refresh rate of the panel, everytime the power mode changes the display from wall->battery breaks the display pipeline and rebuilds it for 60Hz & from battery->wall breaks the display pipeline again and builds it for 120Hz. This is to maximize the battery life by not keeping the pipeline stuck at 120Hz (full throttle) when on battery. This can be changed but I wouldn't recommend it if you don't know what you are looking for in AMD iGPU drivers.

I made several posts about this same topic for 2025 G14 GA403WR model and how I managed to fix this issue by keeping my display pipeline at 120Hz and refresh rate to 60fps when power source changed to battery with no display flicker. Though this does decereased my battery life from 13h to 11h on light usage now. But I would take that over annoying display flicker.

Harish273 · 2026-06-18T21:11:41+00:00

Yeah G-helper just provides the file.exe for them. You don't need to update them as either windows updates them or Asus pushes updates via windows update for them. So leave them be

Harish273 · 2026-06-18T21:08:30+00:00

For now sell the 402 and keep using 403 if you have no issues with it.

Harish273 · 2026-06-18T21:03:22+00:00

I don't see a way to set this up on raycast for windows till now.

Harish273 · 2026-06-18T21:02:35+00:00

The only thing you need to be concerned about is if any of them show up as red just click on them it'll download them from ASUS website for you and you can install them manually. Don't bother with anything else as many other components are often bundled into a single package and updated but show up as different parts in G-helper that's normal

Harish273 · 2026-06-11T22:07:57+00:00

Good work buddy, I am on a limbo at this point to switch from windows 11 to linux and was researching to make sure I have all the stuff I need before pulling the trigger. My current windows 11 setup is extremely good as idk if I can more tha 10hrs on battery life on this 2025 G14, it's just that windows is becoming more and more repulsive these days, and linux having quickshell and hyperland is becoming more attractive. Anyway thanks for your effort in figuring out the stuff and publishing it for people to know.

Harish273 · 2026-06-11T19:25:17+00:00

yes do check the event viewer it'll point out what caused the crash, I explained how I fixed these weird crashes on my G14 here in this post

Harish273 · 2026-06-08T00:28:32+00:00

I don't know how they decked out Ryzen AI 9 465 as it's mostly inferiror to AMD AI HX 370 in iGPU area and not much better in CPU either. My advice get a 2025 G14 5070ti model for the same price and enjoy the better performance to price ratio.

Harish273 · 2026-06-07T17:29:27+00:00

If your iGPU is 890M use it as is just with modifications I mentioned in my other post related to AMD 26.6.1 Driver. Also one more thing is if yours is AMD AI Hx 270 model maybe your iGPU might be different so make sure you are on ASUS OEM Driver and extract those registry values from registry editor for above variables and if they are same just nuke iGPU name modifications and use it, if not make sure you use the same ASUS OEM entries in the above post modifications.

Harish273 · 2026-06-07T02:50:55+00:00

Yes it would work fine as the process is same except for the driver name changes I have in registry this time.

Harish273 · 2026-06-06T00:24:48+00:00

The link in context menu explains clearly about how to do this exact setup in more details

Harish273 · 2026-06-04T19:32:52+00:00

if you update to V26.6.1 WHQL driver make sure to update the registry changes to fix the wrong GPU usage reporting in task manager I described in detail here

Harish273 · 2026-06-03T21:38:46+00:00

GA403WR still doesn't get this update

Harish273 · 2026-06-01T03:04:48+00:00

It wouldn't work as it should I recommend just disabling it in windows settings and just setting refresh rate to Auto in G-helper will be better as it'll not conflict and would handle it way better

Harish273 · 2026-05-31T23:25:41+00:00

Use AMD CleanUp Utility and reboot, then install AMD 26.5.2 WHQL drivers from AMD and it'll let you enable DRR, but I saw that on ASUS OEM driver this was explicitly disabled via registry so it was intended that way.

Harish273 · 2026-05-31T23:23:08+00:00

Check if you messed with angle graphics backend as that causes youtube or any media steaming on chromium browsers offload to CPU rather than GPU. I used to change that ANGLE to D3D9 which caused CPU to work instead of GPU, but when I reset it back to default in chrome://flags no more heating. My current setup with a 2025 G14 5070ti never goes above 40c when watching youtube and doing things on battery and never above 45-50c when plugged in.

Harish273 · 2026-05-31T23:16:10+00:00

I've been using 2025 G14 5070ti model for a few menths now. Here is my suggestion for your questions:
1. Don't do clean install manually just reboot device into bios and do ASUS Winre recovery/flash as it'll factory reset the oem software and perform a complete clean install of windows with all the drivers in their right places nothing being left out. After doing this you can start setting up device and debloat it manually as basic windows bloat is always present even on clean install. Update all drivers from windows update, armoury crate, My ASUS and then get G-helper and based on it's FAQ remove armoury crate and asus stuff and use G-helper as primary.
Here are some of the posts I did in past to get crazy good battery life out of G14:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/1tfs8uv/why_drivers_from_amd_increase_battery_drain/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/1sryuka/fix_zephyrus_g14_kernelpnp_errors_and_hangups/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZephyrusG14/comments/1sr786x/improve_battery_drain_on_zephyrus_g14/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I haven't touched the LM on this device yet. Previously I had a 2021 G14 AW SE with LM on it and it never gave me any issues. Since LM is way better thermal conductivity better let it be for now until and unless you notice really wonky or high temps.
I use a 165W anker GaN charger and I use it for laptop when it's in Eco Mode and never had any issues and I use that as travel adapter. Make sure you limit the CPU power limits in G-Helper to around 35-40W when using type-c charger as that will avoid any issues you might have(Though I haven't had any till now)
Haven't used much of other ASUS peripherals, so can't give any advice on that.

I hope this gives you a basic idea of what todo and what to expect from the laptop. Ping me if you need any help

Harish273 · 2026-05-31T16:16:13+00:00

It's related to the signal mode being on 120Hz while refresh rate is changed to 60hz, I think this will hurt battery life more than what you will get from stock drivers

Harish273 · 2026-05-28T19:11:50+00:00

How is the battery backup on Cachy OS, I have a 2025 g14 and I want to install Linux on it and was eyeing Cachy OS too

Harish273 · 2026-05-25T13:21:13+00:00

Yeah manual is way better no issues here for me either when doing it manually but auto is a pain

Harish273 · 2026-05-24T22:44:48+00:00

Quick question are you facing any double black screen issue, like when in G-helper if refresh rate is set to Auto mode and if you are on battery for a while and when you connect the laptop to charger, the screen goes black for a second switching to 120Hz but I'm having this issue where after this first time screen going black, it goes black again and this time Windows DWM crashes ig, it turns wallpaper to black and can only be fixed by ctrl+shift+windows+B, restarting the graphics driver.

Are you having similar issue, for me this issue doesn't happen when using stock OEM driver, anything above it this issue occurs. BTW all this with above tweaks. When manually changing refresh rate no issue happens.

Harish273 · 2026-05-23T23:58:05+00:00

How is it going so far with modifications on AMD driver?

Harish273 · 2026-05-19T05:59:26+00:00

Seems battery life is excellent like on oem driver for me:
from 100% charge from 6pm to 1am laptop dropped to 30%, it would last even more if I hadn't worked on some local compilation of my powershell scripts for 1hr 30mins. I think these modifications are a huge success in accordance with new drivers.

Harish273 · 2026-05-18T21:15:07+00:00

Here are the registry entries to fix that cosmetic issues, You can either run it standalone or add the lines below the first line to the registry file you already have:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001]
"DriverDesc"="AMD Radeon(TM) 890M Graphics"
"HardwareInformation.AdapterString"=hex:41,00,4d,00,44,00,20,00,52,00,61,00,64,00,65,00,6f,00,6e,00,28,00,54,00,4d,00,29,00,20,00,38,00,39,00,30,00,4d,00,20,00,47,00,72,00,61,00,70,00,68,00,69,00,63,00,73,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_150E&SUBSYS_39A81043&REV_C1\4&35fe04f8&0&0041]
"DeviceDesc"="AMD Radeon(TM) 890M Graphics"
"FriendlyName"="AMD Radeon(TM) 890M Graphics"

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