Für Vista und 7 gibt`s eine Neuerung. Dabei kommen im anspruchsloseren Spiel, bezogen auf die mögliche Grafikkartenleistung, verschienene Leistungslevel zur Anwendung, welche Strom sparen können.
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3D Settings Pages
-Power Management mode
Many NVIDIA graphics cards support multiple performance levels so that the PC
can save power when full graphics performance is not required. To provide more
control over these power management capabilities, NVIDIA has added the Power
Management Mode control. The control consists of two settings–Adaptive and Prefer
Maximum Performance.
Adaptive: This is the default setting in which the graphics card monitors GPU
usage and seamlessly switches between modes based on the performance demands
of the application. This allows the GPU to always use the minimum amount of
power required to run a given application, and can allow even older 3D games to
run in lower power modes if the game does not require full 3D performance.
NVIDIA recommends this setting for best overall balance of power and
performance.
Prefer Maximum Performance: This setting lets you maintain the card at its
maximum performance level when 3D applications are running regardless of GPU
usage. This option can be set Globally (for all 3D applications), or an application
profile can be created under Program Settings to set the preference for a particular
3D application.
This feature is supported only on select GeForce 9 Series and later GPUs and applies
only to DirectX and OpenGL?based applications.