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How To Enable The Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10

The document discusses how to enable the Ultimate Performance power plan in Windows 10. It describes the Ultimate Performance plan as optimizing the existing High-Performance plan to reduce micro-latencies and allow hardware to use maximum power. It provides instructions for enabling the plan by selecting it from Power Options in Settings or by using a command if it does not appear as an option. The document cautions that enabling this plan will significantly increase power consumption.

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How To Enable The Ultimate Performance Power Plan in Windows 10

The document discusses how to enable the Ultimate Performance power plan in Windows 10. It describes the Ultimate Performance plan as optimizing the existing High-Performance plan to reduce micro-latencies and allow hardware to use maximum power. It provides instructions for enabling the plan by selecting it from Power Options in Settings or by using a command if it does not appear as an option. The document cautions that enabling this plan will significantly increase power consumption.

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How to Enable the Ultimate

Performance Power Plan in


Windows 10

UPDATED OCT 21, 2022, 9:50 AM EDT | 2 MIN READ

To enable the Ultimate Performance Plan, open the Power Options window in the
Control Panel and select it from the list of power plans. If the Ultimate Performance
Plan doesn't appear as an option, you can enable it with a command.

Microsoft has added an “Ultimate Performance” power scheme to Windows 10 April


2018 Update. It’s built upon the High-Performance power scheme but tries to eke out
every little bit of performance possible. Here’s how to enable it.
What is the Ultimate Performance Power Plan?
The Ultimate Performace power plan is designed to give an extra boost to high-power
systems (think workstations and servers) by optimizing the High-Performance power
plan. It’s geared toward reducing or eliminating micro-latencies associated with fine-
grained power management techniques. A micro-latency is just the slight delay between
when your OS recognizes that a piece of hardware needs more power and when it
delivers that power. Although this may only be a fraction of a second, it can make a
difference.

The Ultimate Performance plan eliminates the polling of hardware to see if it needs
more juice and lets the hardware to consume all the power it needs. Also, any power-
saving features are disabled to improve performance even more. Because of this,
machines that operate on battery power aren’t given this option by default, as it can
consume more power and kill your battery much faster.

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While you may be thinking this would be great for gaming rigs, don’t get your hopes up.

The Ultimate Performance plan improves speed on systems where hardware continually
goes to and from an idle state. But when you’re running a game, all your hardware
already works together to populate the environment around you. The only real
improvement might come upon initial startup, and you might only see a boost of a
couple of frames per second. However, if you are running video editing or 3D design
software that are putting occasional heavy loads on your hardware, you might see more
of an improvement.

There is an important caveat here. Enabling this plan will increase the amount of power
your system consumes, so if you do plan on using this profile on your laptop, make sure
you are plugged in at all times.

How to Enable the Ultimate Performance Power


Plan
Hit Windows+I to open the Settings app and then click the “System” category.
On the System page, click the “Power & Sleep” tab on the left. On the right, click the
“Additional Power Settings” link under the “Related Settings” section.

In the window that pops up, click “Show Additional Plans” and then click the “Ultimate
Performance” option.
If you’re using a laptop, this option may not appear under this section.

What to Do if You Don’t See the Ultimate


Performance Plan
On some systems (mostly on laptops, but also on some desktops), you might not see
the Ultimate Performance plan in your settings app. If you don’t, you can add it with a
quick Command Prompt or PowerShell command. The command is the same for either
shell, so use whichever one you want.

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You’ll need to open the Command Prompt or PowerShell with administrative privileges.
For Command Prompt, hit Start, type “cmd” into the search box, right-click the
Command Prompt result, and choose “Run As Administrator.” For PowerShell, hit
Windows+X and choose the “Windows PowerShell (Admin) option.”

At the prompt, type (or copy and paste) the following command and then hit Enter:

powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61

If you already have the Power Options window open, you might have to close and
reopen it before you see the plan appear, but it should be there.

If you don’t want to see the plan anymore, you can remove it from the Settings app.
First, switch to a different plan. If you try to delete a plan you’re currently using, you can
run into errors.

Next, click the “Change Plan Settings” link to the right of the plan and then click “Delete
This Plan.”
The Ultimate Performance plan is only really useful in specific cases, but it can make a
difference if you’re trying to squeeze every last bit out of your system.

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