I think you may be onto something. I’m going to do some more testing and get back to this, but a quick check. I uninstalled “tlp” and “tlp-rdw” from my system completely, rebooted, and the clock speeds are a bit higher on average which is to be expected since the CPU isn’t sleeping as much, but what’s more interesting is that unplugged the power, letting the battery drain a bit, then plugging it back in does not cause the sudden drop to 400MHz clock speeds. I will need to do more testing.
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Unplugged, running on battery, clock speeds around 3.0GHz
I let the battery drain to 89%, then plugged in the power cable. The clock speeds all rose over the course of 20 seconds to 4.0GHz across all cores, then they rapidly fell off, down to 400MHz, and are slowly recovering.
I let the cpu “recover” over 30m, still running the game in the background, the CPU cores have settled on the following:
GPU utilization:
Power usage:
Temperature readings:
Battery stats:
Shutting off the game and re-launching it produces the same results. Going to try rebooting now.