Fixing Your Windows Power Plan for Gaming

If your report flagged Power plan, Windows is running in a mode that can throttle your CPU and GPU to save energy — fine for everyday use, but it can cause exactly the kind of inconsistent frame times and stutter that feels like a network problem but isn't.

Check your current plan

Open Settings > System > Power & battery.
Look at the Power mode dropdown. On a desktop, you'll likely see options like Best power efficiency, Balanced, or Best performance.

Switch to a performance-oriented plan

For most gaming PCs, Best performance (or the older Control Panel's High performance / Ultimate Performance plan) is the right choice.

To find the older-style Power Options panel directly:

Press Win + R, type powercfg.cpl, press Enter.
Select High performance or Ultimate Performance if it's listed.
If Ultimate Performance isn't shown, you can add it by opening an Administrator Command Prompt and running: powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

One important exception

If you have a modern AMD Ryzen X3D CPU with two CCDs (Core Complex Dies) — common on chips like the 7950X3D or 9950X3D — the advice above doesn't apply the same way. These CPUs actually rely on the Balanced power plan (combined with Windows Game Mode) so Windows can correctly "park" the non-cache CCD during games. Switching to High Performance on these specific chips can disable that parking and reduce gaming performance, counterintuitive as that sounds.

If your report already flagged this as expected for your CPU, you don't need to change anything here — Balanced is genuinely the right setting for you.

After changing it

Re-run a LagInspector diagnostic to confirm the change registered, and see whether it improved your PC Performance score.