Turn on FxSound, no music is playing, standby state, CPU and GPU power consumption increase by 4 watts each.
FxSound v1.1.20.0
Notebook, Windows 11 23H2
AMD 7840HS CPU with Radeon 780M Graphics
AMD Software Adrenalin Edition 23.11.1
The top half of the screenshot shows the power consumption when FxSound is turned on, and the bottom half is the power consumption when FxSound is turned off.
It’s not related to the EDGE browser, I just temporarily closed it. Turning EDGE on or off has no effect on the results. However, after turning off FxSound in the bottom right corner of the taskbar, the power consumption significantly decreases. I have tested it multiple times and confirmed this.
Ok, please make screenshots with running ms edge, aida64 & task manager on the front of your desktop with fxsound is on and off mode, because i’m can’t confirm this.
No need for more screenshots, you can confirm this issue with AIDA64 on your computer, turn off FxSound you can see a decrease in power consumption.
other people have also reported high power consumption issues
Hi @JDF2008,
Apologies for the delay in my reply; I was, quite simply, asleep.
I pinned my standard troubleshooting list to the top of the forum, it would be helpful if you could go through that first to perform some basic tweaking, e.g. installing the latest version, disabling Exclusive Mode, and the likes.
True.
Here’s a compilation of the threads on this topic, in chronological order:
Thank you for your reply. I have checked and my computer supports modern standby S0 low-power mode.
Essentially, this is a bug and I hope it can be fixed.
You can use AIDA64 on the Win11 23H2 system to verify this issue.
HWINFO also shows voltage only. Screenshots from current version of aida64.
The sensor of power consumption depends on computer hardware.
But, if i run any chromium-compatible browser - the minimum voltage of CPU goes up by 0.1-0.3V.