[Resolved] Gaming while FW battery is above maximum allowed charge tanks GPU power

It's not just the game, it's the entire computer that slows down. I was on a Discord call at the time, and they said my voice went robotic as soon as it happened. This issue happens intermittently and doesn't appear to have any specific trigger that I can tell.

I can't figure out what's happening. I've checked:
  • TDP (ryzenadj)
  • Thermals
  • RAM
  • CPU
  • GPU
  • btop to see if processes were eating my system capactiy, and it doesn't appear so
Solution
tl;dr: with battery lifetime saver is active, every once in a while the EC will forcibly set the charging state to "unplugged" causing a massive performance hit. Disabling this feature and manually setting the charge lower than 100% will prevent this.

Note that as far as I can tell, this isn't a bug, it's an intended feature πŸ™„ and should therefore affect all FW16 users
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