The one utility I actually liked was MSI True Color. There's still a few things you wouldn't be able to do (like display overdrive control, all-in-one monitoring, etc) but it's minimal and for the most part, useless. This is Bios/EC specific.įor monitoring use the whole suite, GPU-Z, CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWinfo, the choice is yours. I own a GS65 and I use RW portable to change the battery charge limit, but I had to see exactly which address of the EC was being written to, test, etc. Simple mode is also a quick fix, but tbh the fan curve is the real way to go.īattery control is the tricky part (as if the other parts weren't).

It is a bit limited because it only has 1 profile, but changing your curve is super easy and fast. Takes time and is complicated in a different way. This is for both undervolting/overclocking. It is not as simple as the profiles in dragon center, yet way more powerful + undervolt) Use throttlestop for CPU control (but learn to use it properly. the 'HEAVIEST' game she may play is either The Sims franchise or Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare/Battle For Neighborville), does she REALLY need the Dragon Center? If she is just a 'casual' gamer (mainly games you can do in a web browser or 'Android-based' games. I did some research and things are pointing to the Dragon Center being the culprit.

The error it threw back was something about a 'Dxgkrnl.sys' error. Only thing that can be done is a forced reboot with the power button.Ībout 10 days ago, she had a Blue Screen of Death, just sitting on her desktop. Cursor won't move, keyboard unresponsive, Alt-Tab doesn't work, Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. Thing is a BEAUT, but there's one little problem.Įvery now and then, the whole system will freeze when left unattended. It came with Windows 10, but she upgraded to Windows 11 when she was able.

So, roommate has a MSI GF65 Thin 9D laptop. She decided screw it and slapped Linux Mint 20.3 onto it and, besides a hiccup with nVidia drivers (user mistake, I forgot we needed to do SYSTEM updates before drivers), it's working like it did on Windows 10, if not better. She did a fresh install of Windows 11 (from a flash drive) and it made the performance WORSE. UPDATE: Seems to be the laptop didn't like Windows 11.

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