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!
Best Answer
You can add a DWORD value with Regedit to disable that behaviour:
In
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASUS\ASUS Smart GestureAdd the
DWORD AutoSetMaxPower, set it to0and reboot.