Asus Smart Gesture getting CPU to 3GHz

I bought a new Asus Ux303ln laptop and the touchpad drivers (asus smart gesture) gets the cpu frequency up to 3GHz everytime I scroll with 2 fingers. This seems to be using alot of power and I only get about 4 hours of battery life while browsing the web.

I have tried updating the drivers to a newer version I found on Asus website, version 3.012 but it still has the same problem. Since I don't know for certain which brand of touchpad I have on this laptop (the windows device manager calls it "ASUS touchpad"), I have tried both synaptics and Elantech drivers, but neither one of them will install.

I have also tried to limit the CPU's maximum speed at power settings to 99% but once I scroll it seems to reset to 100%...

Does anyone know how to block Asus smart gesture from getting my cpu to 3Ghz? Or if there is anyway to install a better driver, the only gesture I need is 2 finger scrolling.

Thank you!

Hdplsa

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 113

You can uninstall the software. Honestly though its unlikely going to extend your battery life by any measureable amount. – Ramhound – 2015-04-03T15:53:59.353

Answers

You can add a DWORD value with Regedit to disable that behaviour:

In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASUS\ASUS Smart Gesture

Add the DWORD AutoSetMaxPower, set it to 0 and reboot.

Maxime.J

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 146

1+1 My laptop fan was always running, this fixed it! – Kshitiz Sharma – 2016-07-11T20:36:42.517

So what exactly does this do? And can you explain how it works? – router – 2019-02-04T14:28:47.873

It's a builtin feature of the driver, when it's enabled (and it is by default), it will set the CPU maximum speed to 100% whenever you scroll with the touchpad. See there => https://www.geek.com/apps/asus-says-100-cpu-utilization-is-required-for-smooth-scrolling-on-laptops-1608457/ But maybe it's not relevant anymore today with the newer versions.

– Maxime.J – 2019-02-05T15:11:51.267

I had the same problem but I resolved it by:

Uninstalling Asus smart gesture from windows 10
Reboot Windows
Download and installing drivers Version V11.5.16.2 from this site - http://www.asus.com/support/Download/3/589/0/21/41/
Reboot Windows
Go to System-->Device Manager-->Mouse and pointers-->Driver-->Update Driver Windows installed Asus Touchpad and Asus Smart Gesture.
Reboot Windows

From that moment I don't have problems with high CPU usage when scrolling

Lukcinek

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 11

Why blocking the turbo mode of the CPU, let it boost, you are loosing performance.

Instead of crippling your CPU's performance by disabling it's turbo, I would advice you to uninstall that soft, and try a newer version of the "ASUS touchpad" software for a similar laptop (or an refresh model of it). It's probably a known bug and they will fix it soon.

My answer was correct as OP said he fixed it with a newer version.

Neil

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 461

This is a behavior that ASUS refused to change, according to this post. One option is to use 3rd party touchpad drivers. For a temporary solution that resets the power management setting, you can see my answer.

xgdgsc

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 976

Just copy (and overwrite) all file in folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ASUS Smart Gesture\Win10_AP\x64" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\ASUS\ASUS Smart Gesture\AsTPCenter\x64"

If explorer tells you that they are in use, go to taskbar and kill "ASUS Smart Gesture ...." tasks. The "Loader" task must be first.

Mehdi Imani

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem and I fixed it this way.

Uninstall the existing Asus Smart Gesture
If you have an ELAN touchpad then first download and install the latest driver from this link
Download and install the latest Asus Smart Gesture from here.

router

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 101

links not working anymore :( – Jurosh – 2017-10-29T19:32:57.883

For me what solve was uninstalling the Smart Gesture that windows installed automatically, FIRST installing from my notebook model ASUS site the ATK driver and THEN the most up-to-date ASUS Smart Gesture driver.

Allan Veloso

Posted 2015-04-03T15:00:27.063

Reputation: 261