Vivaldi changes windows power plan
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@Pathduck In windows I went to settings > system > display > graphics settings and chose classic app, then browsed for vivaldi, and set it as follows:
but Vivaldi, when active and in full screen mode, still changes the power plan from My Custom Plan to "High Performance!" β even though according to the this windows setting it should choose "Power Saving." I tried restarting Vivaldi.
Next I am going to remove Vivaldi from windows "graphics settings" and then, I am going to change multiple displays from "extend these displays" to "show only on 1. Then I am going to use My Custom Power Plan and configure My Custom Power Plan to put the computer to sleep after 1 minutes β and that way I'll be able to tell if my Custom Power Plan is still in effect when I go to Vivaldi full-screen. If my computer goes to sleep I'll know my plan is still in effect. If it stays awake for more than a minute that means windows has switched the power plant to "high performance" (which has the sleep timer set to "never").
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OK, when using a single screen, and My Custom Power Plan set to put computer to sleep after one minute, my computer did go to sleep after a minute of inactivity, even with vivaldi the active program, and full-screen. so the problem has something to do with having 2 screens. Yet I can't find anything in NVidia Control Panel to account for this power plan change, or in Windows, or vivaldi. I am going to update the Nvidia drivers to the latest and see if that helps (I have the next to the latest).
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Updated NVidia drivers but it didn't help.
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@nomenclator Just FYI I run a three-monitor setup and I've never seen this. Also Nvidia (GTX970). Something else must be going on, but no idea at this point what.
Do you have other Chromium-based browsers installed, like Opera or even Chrome? Does it happen with those as well?
EDIT: Are you running Avast by the way?
https://help.avast.com/en/av_free/17/performancegaming.htmlTrigger high performance (for laptop users): switches the power plan to the highest performance setting.
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@Pathduck said in Vivaldi changes windows power plan:
@nomenclator Just FYI I run a three-monitor setup and I've never seen this. Also Nvidia (GTX970). Something else must be going on, but no idea at this point what.
Do you have other Chromium-based browsers installed, like Opera or even Chrome? Does it happen with those as well?
EDIT: Are you running Avast by the way?
https://help.avast.com/en/av_free/17/performancegaming.htmlTrigger high performance (for laptop users): switches the power plan to the highest performance setting.
I have Avast installed and running but it doesn't seem to have a game mode (at Avast > performance >)
I'll start chrome and see what happens. I haven't updated Opera recently. I probably have a version that is about a year old.
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@Pathduck said in Vivaldi changes windows power plan:
@nomenclator Just FYI I run a three-monitor setup and I've never seen this. Also Nvidia (GTX970). Something else must be going on, but no idea at this point what.
Do you have other Chromium-based browsers installed, like Opera or even Chrome? Does it happen with those as well?
EDIT: Are you running Avast by the way?
https://help.avast.com/en/av_free/17/performancegaming.htmlTrigger high performance (for laptop users): switches the power plan to the highest performance setting.
I started chrome and I didn't have any problem with it causing the power plan to change.
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@nomenclator In the later versions of Avast it's called "Silent mode" or "Do not disturb" mode. If you have Avast, I'd say it's a big chance this is what's causing it.
What version do you have of Avast? I have the Premier, it looks like this, there's a maximise performance setting:
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@Pathduck That seemed to do the trick Pathduck. In Avast I turned do not disturb mode for Vivaldi to OFF and now the Windows power plan is not being changed from My Custom Plan to the "high performance" plan when a Vivaldi window is active and in full screen.
How did you figure this out.? Power plans are not "notifications" from third party apps.
What I have is Avast Free Antivirus by the way. It is configured with do not disturb set to ON for Chrome but its not causing any power plan changes for chrome. Or for Firefox.
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@nomenclator Glad it helped!
I just googled "change power plan for fullscreen applications" and it lead me to this:
https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/81665-power-plan-automatically-changing-game-launch.htmlWhen I read Avast there I had a "D'oh!" moment as I remembered this setting. In fact it caused issues with Irfanview, so I had to explicitly disable it. Actually this type of intrusive guessing of what the user wants and then silently overriding stuff is one of the reasons I'll probably not renew my license for Avast when the time comes.
As for Chrome+Firefox: Have you checked whether the "Maximize performance" setting is checked for those, under the "..." menu next to the On/Off button?
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@Pathduck said in Vivaldi changes windows power plan:
@nomenclator Glad it helped!
I just googled "change power plan for fullscreen applications" and it lead me to this:
https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/81665-power-plan-automatically-changing-game-launch.htmlWhen I read Avast there I had a "D'oh!" moment as I remembered this setting. In fact it caused issues with Irfanview, so I had to explicitly disable it. Actually this type of intrusive guessing of what the user wants and then silently overriding stuff is one of the reasons I'll probably not renew my license for Avast when the time comes.
As for Chrome+Firefox: Have you checked whether the "Maximize performance" setting is checked for those, under the "..." menu next to the On/Off button?
No, in the Avast "Do Not Disturb" window "maximize performance" is not checked for Chrome or for Firefox. However even though I have turned "do not disturb" OFF for Vivaldi, "Do Not Disturb" is still checked. Also, although 'change power plans" is specifically mentioned in the tenforums.com page you linked to, in my version of Avast it referred to so vaguely that it isn't clear what is being referred to. If I hover over "maximize performance" I get the balloon message "when full screen, run this app in high priority mode and switch Windows to high performance mode." It doesn't say "high performance power plan;" rather, it says "high performance mode." Like, I asked myself, "what, what is high performance mode?" There was no way for me to know it was high performance power plan that was being referred to by Avast. In my mind a "mode" is a vague term that could refer to anything. Avast didn't say power plan so I didn't think power plan.
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@nomenclator said in Vivaldi changes windows power plan:
No, in the Avast "Do Not Disturb window" "maximize performance" is not checked for Chrome or for Firefox.
Well, that explains why it doesn't trigger with Chrome or Firefox
However even though I have turned "do not disturb" OFF for Vivaldi, Do Not Disturb is still checked.
I assume you mean "maximize performance" there at the last bit? Try turning the knob for Vivaldi to ON but UN-check "maximize..." as I believe that's the setting which causes the issue. If you have the knob turned to OFF that setting isn't valid anyway.
Or just disable the whole "feature" in Avast if possible and don't worry any more about it. That's what I've done, I have no need for that one anyway.
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@Pathduck Sorry, that was one of my peculiar typos. I meant "maximize performance is still checked" but for some reason, that I don't understand myself, I substituted "do not disturb" for "maximize performance"β and I wrote "do not disturb is still checked."
I think that's what I'll do, disable the whole feature β I was a bit "disturbed" by the checkbox in Avast that says "automatically add new apps. Any app running fullscreen will be added to your Do Not Disturb list." Also very annoying was the fact that if you go to Performance > Do not disturb mode β bringing up the page where a number of apps are listed β and then you click the gear icon in the upper right to get to another page β also labeled "Do Not Disturb Mode," but containing checkboxes instead of ON-OFF swithes, including the "automatically add new apps" checkbox, there is no obvious way to get back to the previous window. No back-arrow, and clicking on "performance" on the left does nothing. You have to click the X in the left-hand corner to get back to the list of apps? I didn't expect that. The window with the checkboxes lbeled "do not disturb mode" completely covered, completely obscured, the window with the list of apps, labeled "do not disturb mode." Not the most elegant interface. However many of the free anti-malware programs that are available seem to be horribly inelegant. I tried one a while ago that was removing some executables without first asking permission to do so, even though I had it configured to "always ask."
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