So I got this gaming laptop (Dell inspiron 15 7000 gaming - 12gb ram, 1060 6gb nvidia graphics, SSD and HHD). I used it to mainly play LSPDFR which worked fine, I played on my battery which lasted a little over an hour before the battery saver came on (20%). I downloaded medics fire and ems pack recently and it started to drain my battery a lot more. I removed the pack and put in a back up (gtav directory) I had put on my other hard drive before adding the fire and ems pack as a back up and I played it just like I had it before the fire and ems pack and it still seems to drain my battery pretty fast, about 15 mins of playing it went from 98% to 69%. It never used to do this. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do or any fixes out there?

18 minutes ago, sheepdog6024 said:

So I got this gaming laptop (Dell inspiron 15 7000 gaming - 12gb ram, 1060 6gb nvidia graphics, SSD and HHD). I used it to mainly play LSPDFR which worked fine, I played on my battery which lasted a little over an hour before the battery saver came on (20%). I downloaded medics fire and ems pack recently and it started to drain my battery a lot more. I removed the pack and put in a back up (gtav directory) I had put on my other hard drive before adding the fire and ems pack as a back up and I played it just like I had it before the fire and ems pack and it still seems to drain my battery pretty fast, about 15 mins of playing it went from 98% to 69%. It never used to do this. Anyone have any suggestions on what I can do or any fixes out there?

I would recommend plugging the laptop into a wall socket when gaming. Your laptop's battery is not going to be able sustain the amount of power the CPU and GPU want, and of course when you're gaming or doing a more strenuous task on said laptop your laptop's CPU and/or GPU will want more power than say just browsing the web. So, instead of playing with only the battery connected you're going to need to plug the laptop into a wall socket with the charger.

7 hours ago, Jman5625 said:

I would recommend plugging the laptop into a wall socket when gaming. Your laptop's battery is not going to be able sustain the amount of power the CPU and GPU want, and of course when you're gaming or doing a more strenuous task on said laptop your laptop's CPU and/or GPU will want more power than say just browsing the web. So, instead of playing with only the battery connected you're going to need to plug the laptop into a wall socket with the charger.

But that’s the problem I used to play on battery all the time playing lspdfr and I would be able to go for about an hour off of a full battery till it hit about 20% and I got the message saying low battery.

Could be where and tear from all the charging and discharging 

I realized my battery was set on "best performance" not on "best battery life". Something must have changed it. Appreciate the answers.