RelariisTheParadox

When you say "Disable windows automatic install driver", do you mean device driver installation, or a different automatic driver installation? Cause if its device installation, that would affect a lot of other drivers on my laptop, which I wanted to avoid doing if possible [if you read the OP]. If it's some other ADI, then can you explain how to do that please&thanks?

Haha that's ironic that you stumble upon this for the opposite reason I've presented it [meanwhile no one who's come for the same reason has responded in ~a month -_-]. Laptop is Acer Nitro Spin 5, also a 2 in 1, like yours, but mine does have fans and a GTX 1050 that I can't fully utilize because of DPTF, and I have an laptop cooler for when I'm doing more demanding gaming. Perhaps I'm also running some special Acer version of W10 which is why it doesn't display? I don't think installing fresh Windows 10 is a good idea though since I also use my laptop for digital art, drivers for which I may lose without Acer's installation [cannot confirm myself, just a risk I'd prefer not to take]. You can see below, there is no options for disabling it in the Edit Power Settings Control Panel section. The Power Options branch is no better, as it does display a DPTF section, but no disabling, only wattage management, which doesn't seem to affect anything because it still throttles down past what's displayed. I'd like to avoid BIOS tweaking for the time being as long as I still have warranty on the machine, but I guess thanks for the info anyways.

Hi all, I recently found out that Intel DPTF kills performance on ultrabook CPUs with the dumb thought process that "85C is too hot to touch on an ultrabook, but 70C is A-Okay", and with my laptop that uses an i5-8250u which needs a measly 25W of power to get to full 3.4 Ghz performance across all 4 cores (at ~80C), DPTF seems to think 8W 800 Mhz (~65C) is better anytime outside of the 30 sec short turbo boost. That makes the difference between 32 and 60fps averages in games. [Apparently some laptops come with power plan settings to configure the levels of DPTF, but mine didn't] After finding this out and uninstalling the "Processor Participant", I found out it reinstalls itself pretty frequently, and I read that because of that, people recommend changing the write permissions of the folders it uses, C:\Windows\System32 & C:\Windows\System32\drivers, but that didn't sound right to me. Am I mistaken in thinking that taking off write permissions for the folders would keep other drivers from installing/updating there as well? Is there a way to keep specific drivers uninstalled without modifying the permissions for all of them? If it helps the specificity, the only part of DPTF that needs to stay uninstalled is the Processor Participant which uses WdfCoInstaller01011.dll and dptf_cpu.sys, though the other "devices" of DPTF use the CoInstaller as well, so I'm not sure if that's necessary to keep deleted. Anyone have input/advice?

I guess the weight for a tablet makes sense, but I think people who would be paying enough attention to detail to look for something high-spec in a convertible would know what they were getting themselves into, and pay attention to weight and size dimensions. For example, I could've gotten 15.6" etc ones, but with mine I went with a 14", cause that was probably all I would need. It just kinda seems ridiculous to me that you can't make something that panders to a versatile user without making them buy 2-4 different devices. But hey, maybe that's just capitalism. Also, something I forgot in the OP was that these 2 in 1's that have these low specs, cost as much as standard laptops that are twice as powerful. I think that was one of the main issues I had with the predicament; why does it cost so much to make it a flipping [literally and figuratively] touch screen? And if Lenovo really does have such a hard patent on their angle, how come HP and Dell have been jumping on that bandwagon >.>?

{Hello world. I'm a noowbie to LTT Forum} So earlier this year, I got myself a Lenovo Flex, cause I needed a laptop for school, and I also wanted to do digital art more often [cannot use wacom tablets for the life of me], and I got the best one I could find for under $1K, which had an i7 6500U and a Nvidia 940m [and 8gb ram plus 1tb HDD {so sue me}], so some casual gaming is still possible. Half a year or so later, I constantly see new laptops being released and talk of new AMD APUs and such being planned for laptops, and I remember a link popping up to some HP convertible latpop that had and A10. I know one person who has a 2 in 1 that has an i5 quad core [which i cant find anywhere online, but it exists so *shrug*], but no dedicated GPU, and that was the most powerful CPU I'd seen in them. That got me thinking about the lack of quad cores and the 940m being the most powerful GPU I could find in convertible laptops that I saw, and I wondered to myself, why does it seem that all 2 in 1 laptops seem to make compromises in CPU and GPU power, with almost none having higher than dual cores [not counting virtual threads], and no "decent" dedicated GPUs, with the dGPUs being rare already. Does anyone know of counter examples to this situation, or know the reason why they seem to have such limits? Why cant you have a decently powerful computer that has a touch screen that folds over itself? All non hostile input is welcome~