Changing plan does not change plan in ASUS ROG Armory

[LavaTiger99]

When changing plan with cli (atrofac-cli.exe plan silent) does not seem to change in the ROG Armory settings.

Is that expected behavior? Is there a way to verify if it is actually changing it?

[cronosun]

Is that expected behavior?

I think so... Armory Crate and atrofac are two independant applications that both communicate with the asus-driver. The asus-driver seems to be stateless (and has no read-method to get the chosen plan) and only Armory Crate seems to store the chosen plan (at least that's how I think it works - since I don't have the source code for the asus-driver and Armory Crate I cannot verify that).

Is there a way to verify if it is actually changing it?

Plan alone without changing the fan curve... I don't know... of cource if you change the fan curve you should hear it :-)

[LavaTiger99]

Thank you!

[bloodmage0]

Is this true? Applying profiles via Atrofac do not seem to change power plans displayed in "Power Options" in windows. This was confirmed by disabling boost in "Power Saver" mode and switching between the "Silent" and "Performance" default profiles in Atrofac. I have tried starting Atrofac manually with admin privileges but it does not change it. Fan settings are applied though.

edit: This is on G14 R9 GTX2060

[cronosun]

Is this true? Applying profiles via Atrofac do not seem to change power plans displayed in "Power Options" in windows

It should do the same Armory Crate does; as far as I know Armory Crate doesn't change Windows power plans either (I cannot verify that since I uninstalled it).

[bloodmage0]

Is this true? Applying profiles via Atrofac do not seem to change power plans displayed in "Power Options" in windows

It should do the same Armory Crate does; as far as I know Armory Crate doesn't change Windows power plans either (I cannot verify that since I uninstalled it).

Thanks for replying! With Armory Crate, switching between the silent and performance profiles changes the power options in real time (between power saver and high performance). If one of the power option profiles disables boost, then Armory Crate can control boost via its own profiles. I was hoping to use Atrofac to automatically disable boost on the silent fanless profile to ensure low temperatures.

Edit: This also means that people who have removed Armory Crate are actually using whatever power plan windows has decided to use, which could lead to a performance issue if someone last used power saver.

[zllovesuki]

@bloodmage0 I'm working on a golang fork that tries to do what atrofac is doing but also switch the Power Options in Windows

[cronosun]

@zllovesuki : Great to see. I will integrate that functionality into the next atrofac version (when I find the time).
(https://github.com/zllovesuki/ROGManager/blob/master/system/thermal/powercfg.go).

[bloodmage0]

Nice! Looking forward to trying your new works. Thanks a lot for taking the time to develop these software!