HP Victus 15 has a short two-hour battery life even when on the lowest power settings

[Redaktion]

Despite its large 70 Wh battery pack, the Victus 15 lasts for just a fraction of most other gaming laptops when running on battery power. Runtimes are so short that there could potentially be a bug with the numerous power profile settings.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/HP-Victus-15-has-a-short-two-hour-battery-life-even-when-on-the-lowest-power-settings.677981.0.html

[VictusUser]

I just got the Ryzen 5600h and RX5500m GPU Victus. I easily get 8+ hours for browsing and normal use. There is possibly a bug I believe on the intel nvidia version? Or maybe let windows update to it's heart's content initially after which results should be different.

[VictusUser2]

I have the I5 12500H with RTX 3050 , The Quiet mode is working perfectly fine , It limits the Processors Turbo and Nvidia Graphics Powerdraw , i can get around 5 to 6 hours with Office usage

[victus1516tx]

Very similar with my victus laptop. I using 12500h gtx version, battery drain very fast and fan louder when using quiet mode. Im not sure is this bug or defect. Please inform me if you have an update.

[mel_c]

I have 15-fa0031dx  nvidia/intel  gtx 1650/core 5 12450H  I'm also experience short battery life. I have set OMEN to eco, and I also change Processor Power Management -  Maximum Processor State to 30%. Windows did update the firmware/bios to F12  on HP website just say bios update F11, nvidia and intel gpu drivers are old like always. 

[mcy]

I have Victus fa0116tx i5-12500h/GTX1650. The battery life is awful, 2 hours for just Office. Additionally their display also seems awful. I got my display constantly blinking after 1 week of usage. I brought it to service center and got replacement just to get a same problem. Going to the service center again tommorow.

[Victus user]

I have a Victus notebook 15 with a Ryzen 5 5600h and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, I have been using this laptop for 6 months now and I had the same issue of very short battery life of about one and half to two hours until yesterday when I changed the Nvidia control panel settings. I put the power management mode to optimal power and my battery life doubled. Try it out if it works for you.

[durmus]

I have a Victus notebook 15 with a Ryzen 5 5600h and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, I have been using this laptop for 6 months now and I had the same issue of very short battery life of about one and half to two hours until yesterday when I changed the Nvidia control panel settings. I put the power management mode to optimal power and my battery life doubled. Try it out if it works for you.

I have the same laptop and the problems exist like fast battery consumption . I can not find the power management mode in nvidia control panel. Can you share with me?

Thanks in advance.

[melmotonteiro]

Got a Victus 15 like two weeks ago, with i5-12500H and RTX 4060 and I rapidly noticed that the battery was also draining way too fast (less than 2 hours).

What I found to work with me was:

- terminate all applications that could be unnecessarily draining energy (in my case, aplications for mouse, keyboard and headsets that I only use at home)

- if using Opera GX, set to battery saving

- set the battery definitions to battery saving. use all the recommendations, namely lowering the refresh rate of the monitor (from 144 Hz to 60 Hz)

- in NVIDIA control panel, set battery setting to maximum performance

This resulted in duplicating or triplicating the battery life, while using normal apps like browser (including playing videos) and Spotify

[Ahmed Muhammad]

So I tested all the solutions in this thread but still could not fix my extreme drain of Battery on my HP Victus laptop. But I came up with the perfect solution. My Victus was new and even on idle state, the discharge rate was almost -20W. If you have the same problem, follow the steps below.

• Recalibrate the battery (but it still does not solve the problem fully)
• Clean installation of Windows 11 (not from the hp cloud recovery app, download windows 11 from the official Microsoft website, this the most important step)
• Do not download any NVIDIA or HP apps (Update the drivers from NVIDIA website and download only the specific drivers for your device. DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY EXTRA HP SUPPORT ASSISTANT APP OR WHATEVER. Just update the drivers directly from HP website)
• You May Download HP OMEN GAMING HUB (in my case, it even game me better battery life, BUT MAKE SURE TO DISABLE HP OMEN OVERLAY FROM THE TASK SCHEDULER APP ON WINDOWS).

After following all these steps, even when I have Microsoft edge running and writing this post, my discharge rate right now is less than -10W. AMAZING IKR. I attached the ss of my discharge rate rn. Hope this fixes your problem :)