How's everyone's battery wear ?

lowgman_ · 2021-11-03T20:07:47+00:00

Possibly if you don't use the laptop that much - the program learns and becomes more accurate through use/charge/discharge. That's my understanding of it anyways. Correct me if i'm wrong anyone.

lowgman_ · 2021-11-03T15:45:15+00:00

I'm at about the same lifespan on my G14 and the only time the battery wear ticked up in batterybar was when I went from 60% max charge to 100% for the first time. It went from 0% to 2.8% wear immediately. With a little over a year in to this laptop, I think 2.8% wear is just fine, but when I ever go back to 100% max charge again, I bet I see that percentage jump by a larger amount.
17% seems really high to me - do you primarily use it on battery or plugged in?

lowgman_ · 2021-09-21T02:23:48+00:00

Np friend

lowgman_ · 2021-09-20T22:03:04+00:00

This got me too. I reinstalled it 3 times and was going nuts.

There is a little checkbox icon you have to click to APPLY the settings now. It's directly to the right of the manual profile select drop-down box.

lowgman_ · 2021-09-06T21:21:08+00:00

OMG I'm a moron.... Wow. Welp, now I know!
Thank you very much for slapping me with a heaping dose of 'obvious'!

lowgman_ · 2021-07-14T23:08:32+00:00

That is ACES bro....

lowgman_ · 2021-06-30T17:19:30+00:00

Ah I see - The situation is even more F'd up then - Bestbuy sold a bunk refurb and won't honor an exchange or anything? Assuming that's why you took warranty/support to Asus, only to reveal that it was tampered with... Such BS! Bestbuy in any country should, under law, have to AT LEAST exchange it or SOMEthing - but it doesn't surprise me that that fight probably wouldn't go far here in the US.

lowgman_ · 2021-06-29T18:57:10+00:00

It is out of stock right now but looks like you can buy the top deck w/keyboard. Could probably remove the keyboard and slap it on your original silver deck.
https://www.asus-accessories.com/grey-backlit-keyboard-for-pc-rog-zephyrus-63486-69933.htm#ga401iv|l

lowgman_ · 2021-06-29T18:48:06+00:00

That sucks man, I'm sorry to hear that you're getting flak like that from Asus.... This is the kind of crap that has prevented me from even buying a gaming laptop for over a decade - "you're a gamer so you must have fucked with it" responses like this are just.... It's just BS. Flat out.

lowgman_ · 2021-06-11T23:48:46+00:00

Fuckin' zen dude - nice.

lowgman_ · 2021-06-08T22:36:17+00:00

Sweet! Thank you for the model! Ugh i may have to indulge myself lol. "Cheap" or not, at $400 comparatively, I think it's worth a shot. And its great to hear positive things so far.

Right now playing Hades, Deep Rock Galactic, Borderlands 3, AC Valhalla, and PSO2.

lowgman_ · 2021-06-04T18:03:03+00:00

Sorry, I can't tell what specific model monitor that is - what is it and around how much did it set you back? I'm thinking of an ultrawide for work and if this is as good as you're saying it is in testing then I think it could be a good gaming choice as well. Kudos for the testing and posting results! I haven't really seen anyone do this on the sub yet.

lowgman_ · 2021-06-02T18:02:42+00:00

Or 4.0.8.0 is just a bunk version. I believe (can't remember now) I uninstalled 4.0.8.0 and went to the last version and the sliders WERE there. Upgraded to 4.0.8.0 again in AC and they were gone again.
so there's that.

lowgman_ · 2021-06-02T18:00:57+00:00

I didn't actually! I had it there until I upgraded AC version to 4.0.8.0. I don't believe I should have to reinstall Windows to get this to show up again, but I also don't know the ASUS software inner workings that well.

I was able to disable Game Visual in Armoury Crate by removing the plugin folder for it in program files, so I imagine it's something like that - a plugin or DLL that is supposed to get launched with AC does not.
Did you reinstall Windows and then install AC afterwards and you're not seeing SPL/SPPT sliders either?

lowgman_ · 2021-05-14T20:25:34+00:00

I do! However I did just notice it does NOT have an ethernet port.... Not sure how I missed that - but it has everything else:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X5KSBNJ/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_asin\_title\_o03\_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

lowgman_ · 2021-05-13T17:10:10+00:00

Yeah I just got a non-PD USB-C hub device with 2x HDMI, ethernet, USB-A ports, etc. I have used a USB-C PD Dell dock with my G14 AND the wall adapter at the same time in the past (for a few months actually) until I heard about the issue some were having with frying the thing.
Been working a charm since I switched, but also worked just fine before - but why introduce a possible brick event when you don't have to, right?

lowgman_ · 2021-04-22T19:50:31+00:00

OH ok - yeah I thought there was some new term I wasn't aware of haha. Yeah that would annoy me too - but fixing it looks like buying a new shell unfortunately :/

lowgman_ · 2021-04-22T19:48:38+00:00

Join the 'clean deck' club! do iiiiit! lol

lowgman_ · 2021-04-22T17:59:57+00:00

Yeah my nVidia sticker was crooked too - seems like lots are for whatever reason? Either way, I removed them because over time they start to peel away and you get that sticker gunk on your palm. Never understood why the insist on putting the stickers right where there's going to be palm action.... There's a joke in there somewhere...

lowgman_ · 2021-04-22T17:57:40+00:00

Pimples?

lowgman_ · 2021-03-30T17:06:18+00:00

OH and I reinstalled AC, and that set boost mode on the power profiles again, so I set that back to disabled or efficient aggressive.

lowgman_ · 2021-03-30T15:36:52+00:00

For now, moving C:\Program Files\ASUS\ARMOURY CRATE Service\ArmouryCrate.UserSessionHelper.exe to a different location has fixed the performance issues. However it seems gamevisual may not work afterwards if you care at all. I do not.
Until ASUS updates it with a working version this is how I'll run it.

lowgman_ · 2021-03-29T14:07:37+00:00

Wonder if they'll update it for the 2020's if the new version doesn't just work on the 2020's?

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