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Hello there. Something that I've seen many discussions about on the internet is limiting battery charge on BootCamp. From what everybody says, there seem to be only 2 ways to do this. One is to use a battery-limiting-app on macOS, which causes the limit to carry over to Windows. But this requires keeping macOS, which is annoying because I still have my original 128gb flash drive, and macOS takes 40gb of it, even on an old version. The second way is to use BCLM, setting a battery limit, and then installing Windows. This one overrides the SMC, so even after erasing macOS, the limit is kept on Windows. The only problem is that, if you wanted to, the only way to remove it is to reset SMC, removing the limit permanently. So, for me, neither of those are very convenient. And while I can live without the limit, I don't feel so good keeping my battery at 100% while playing games with the CPU at 100C. I think I might have found a way, which, at least on any post talking about Apple, hasn't been talked about, and I wanted to know people's opinion to see if it works for anyone else. What I did, was to go on Device Manager, and inside the "Batteries" section, right click on "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery", and disable it.
If you do that, (at least on my case) the battery disappears from the taskbar, and, while you can still use the laptop unplugged, plugging it doesn't seem to charge anything. To test this, I left my MacBook 10 minutes plugged, and after checking on Windows, it didn't seem to have charged. But Windows battery-meter sucks bad (at least on MacBooks), so I booted back onto macOS, and was pleased to find out it was exactly at the same percentage as before disabling the driver. On Windows, after re-enabling the driver, the battery seems to charge. So, I wanted to ask if anyone knew about this, and if it works well for them, or if I am just wrecking my battery by touching some obscure settings. Thanks in advance to anyone who might respond.
Hello there. Something that I've seen many discussions about on the internet is limiting battery charge on BootCamp. From what everybody says, there seem to be only 2 ways to do this. One is to use a battery-limiting-app on macOS, which causes the limit to carry over to Windows. But this requires keeping macOS, which is annoying because I still have my original 128gb flash drive, and macOS takes 40gb of it, even on an old version. The second way is to use BCLM, setting a battery limit, and then installing Windows. This one overrides the SMC, so even after erasing macOS, the limit is kept on Windows. The only problem is that, if you wanted to, the only way to remove it is to reset SMC, removing the limit permanently. So, for me, neither of those are very convenient. And while I can live without the limit, I don't feel so good keeping my battery at 100% while playing games with the CPU at 100C. I think I might have found a way, which, at least on any post talking about Apple, hasn't been talked about, and I wanted to know people's opinion to see if it works for anyone else. What I did, was to go on Device Manager, and inside the "Batteries" section, right click on "Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery", and disable it.
If you do that, (at least on my case) the battery disappears from the taskbar, and, while you can still use the laptop unplugged, plugging it doesn't seem to charge anything. To test this, I left my MacBook 10 minutes plugged, and after checking on Windows, it didn't seem to have charged. But Windows battery-meter sucks bad (at least on MacBooks), so I booted back onto macOS, and was pleased to find out it was exactly at the same percentage as before disabling the driver. On Windows, after re-enabling the driver, the battery seems to charge. So, I wanted to ask if anyone knew about this, and if it works well for them, or if I am just wrecking my battery by touching some obscure settings. Thanks in advance to anyone who might respond.