Question Laptop runs slow when not charging

[dongermain]

I use my laptop for gaming mostly, and I recently found out that whenever it's unplugged, some games become almost unplayable. My laptop charger broke recently so now it no longer actually charges my laptop, just keeps it powered. I was told to change my battery settings to high performance which I did, but from what I can tell it has made no difference. Any help with this would be appreciated, I plan on just leaving it plugged in while i'm running games once I get a new adapter, however I'm sure there will be times when i'd like to run games and I am not near a power source.
Don't know if my specs are relevant to this issue but here they are:
running windows 10
GTX 1050 Ti
i7-8750H
8gb ram

 

[jojesa]

Changing the Power settings will not work in your case.
Your battery is not capable of delivering the power (Watts) your system needs while playing games or doing any task that will load the GPU.
Your CPU uses from 35-45W and GPU could use up to 70W while gaming, most laptops batteries cannot handle that power draw.
The ones that do will drain the battery mighty fast.

 

[dongermain]

Changing the Power settings will not work in your case.
Your battery is not capable of delivering the power (Watts) your system needs while playing games or doing any task that will load the GPU.
Your CPU uses from 35-45W and GPU could use up to 70W while gaming, most laptops batteries cannot handle that power draw.
The ones that do will drain the battery mighty fast.

To see if I understand, does this mean that my laptop has to run slower now to prevent its battery from draining?

 

[jojesa]

To see if I understand, does this mean that my laptop has to run slower now to prevent its battery from draining?

No, the battery cannot not deliver the power (Watts) your system requires while your GPU is at full load.
GPUs require a significant amounts of power to operate while gaming.
You whole system (GPU, CPU, motherboard, display, etc) could draw more than 120W while gaming,
if the battery was allow to deliver that power by itself and discharge at that fast rate it will overheat and it could burn or even catch on fire.
To avoid that your system safety features will throttle to a lower clock speed.