Power-profiles always switches back to balanced mode after some period of time

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hi there,

I can’t force power-profiles-daemon to keep performance mode, it always switches back to balanced. It happens always, only period of time differs. It’s super-annoying while playing FPS games (I play Quake 3 Arena). I’ve been searching the web but the only thing I found is like ‘wait for kernel update’ but it persists since I remember. Can someone advise what to do with it? I didn’t notice temp spikes or something, it reaches 60-65 degrees.

inxi log: http://ix.io/4L6C

dzyndzla@LENOVO-T490-E:~$ powerprofilesctl 
* performance:
    Driver:     platform_profile
    Degraded:   no

  balanced:
    Driver:     platform_profile

  power-saver:
    Driver:     platform_profile

EDIT: it has just switched back to balanced while writing this post :slight_smile:

dzyndzla@LENOVO-T490-E:~$ powerprofilesctl 
  performance:
    Driver:     platform_profile
    Degraded:   no

* balanced:
    Driver:     platform_profile

  power-saver:
    Driver:     platform_profile
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I take it all back, this page will be more useful: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/power-profiles-daemon#power-profiles-daemon

Especially the Operations on Intel-based machines section.

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Thx for that, I gave up with trying that to solve and just I switched to linux-zen and it works :slight_smile: However, it seems it’s configuration thing as it works on zen.

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Well hey, at least you’re better off than you were before :wink: