Asus Smart Gesture getting CPU to 3GHz
I bought a new Asus Ux303ln laptop and the touchpad drivers (asus smart gesture) gets the cpu frequency up to 3GHz everytime I scroll with 2 fingers. This seems to be using alot of power and I only get about 4 hours of battery life while browsing the web.
I have tried updating the drivers to a newer version I found on Asus website, version 3.012 but it still has the same problem. Since I don't know for certain which brand of touchpad I have on this laptop (the windows device manager calls it "ASUS touchpad"), I have tried both synaptics and Elantech drivers, but neither one of them will install.
I have also tried to limit the CPU's maximum speed at power settings to 99% but once I scroll it seems to reset to 100%...
Does anyone know how to block Asus smart gesture from getting my cpu to 3Ghz? Or if there is anyway to install a better driver, the only gesture I need is 2 finger scrolling.
Thank you!
You can add a DWORD value with Regedit to disable that behaviour:
In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASUS\ASUS Smart Gesture
Add the DWORD AutoSetMaxPower, set it to 0 and reboot.
This is a behavior that ASUS refused to change, according to this post. One option is to use 3rd party touchpad drivers. For a temporary solution that resets the power management setting, you can see my answer.
I had the same problem but I resolved it by:
- Uninstalling Asus smart gesture from windows 10
- Reboot Windows
- Download and installing drivers Version V11.5.16.2 from this site - http://www.asus.com/support/Download/3/589/0/21/41/
- Reboot Windows
- Go to System-->Device Manager-->Mouse and pointers-->Driver-->Update Driver Windows installed Asus Touchpad and Asus Smart Gesture.
- Reboot Windows
From that moment I don't have problems with high CPU usage when scrolling
Why blocking the turbo mode of the CPU, let it boost, you are loosing performance.
Instead of crippling your CPU's performance by disabling it's turbo, I would advice you to uninstall that soft, and try a newer version of the "ASUS touchpad" software for a similar laptop (or an refresh model of it). It's probably a known bug and they will fix it soon.
My answer was correct as OP said he fixed it with a newer version.