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Integrated ragphics rendering artifacts that disappear When the battery is below 20%
I'm seeing strange graphical artifacts and flickering on my laptop's integrated graphics, but they completely disappear whenever the battery drops below 20 percent. This seems backwards since I'd expect issues to get worse at low battery, and I'm wondering if this points to a power management setting, a driver quirk, or something wrong with how the GPU is being throttled at different charge levels.
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The reason you might see artifacts and flicker is that DPST can, in some instances, interfere with the display's refresh cycle or cause the GPU to behave erratically as it tries to manage power. Some users have also found success by turning off Panel Self Refresh in the Intel Graphics Command Center, which is a related power-saving feature .
When the battery falls below 20%, Windows may automatically enter a more aggressive power-saving mode, forcing the GPU into a lower-performance state where the issue disappears.
