One easy way to help conserve power is to lower the screen brightness, at least as much as you can while still having a palatable gaming experience. Bright ideaĪs well as taxing your components, games can also sap your battery, and when you run out of juice, it is, of course, game over. Microsoft’s Xbox One controller is, unsurprisingly, fully natively supported in Windows and the best choice in that respect, although the PS4 controller works just fine as well.
Many games play really well with a gamepad, once you’re acclimatized and some are even best with a pad. Rather than trying to get by playing games on the keyboard, or indeed with the keyboard and a portable mouse – which can be difficult when space is at a premium, say, on a cramped train table – invest in a console gamepad (or just use your existing one if you already own a console). It’s also possible to close background processes, but be careful not to shut down anything critical to the operation of Windows (if you aren’t sure of what something does, leave well alone). Close all running apps, and you can also look at the Task Manager (press Ctrl-Alt-Delete together, then click on Task Manager) to see which apps are using the most CPU, memory and disk space. Alternatively you may prefer to use a free utility like CCleaner or similar we’ve got you covered with options on that front.Īlso ensure that you aren’t using any other apps or services you don’t need when playing a game, as they will eat resources the game could otherwise use.
You can clean house, and make your Windows notebook run a bit faster, by firing up Disk Cleanup (simply type that into the Cortana/search bar, next to the Start button on Windows 10, and click on the icon to start it). Over time, your laptop – or indeed any PC – slowly accumulates more and more detritus which makes it more sluggish, as you install more games and software.
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