How to enable the High performance power plan It uses more energy, but should increase the performance of Live (and other CPU intensive programs). If your power plan is set to 'Balanced' or 'Power saver' and you're experiencing issues like audio crackles, dropouts or other negative performance issues, we recommend switching to the 'High performance' power plan. Your PC manufacturer may even have their own custom power plans. Windows sets all computers to a “Balanced” power plan by default but there are also “Power saver” and “High performance” plans. Using the High performance power plan (Windows)
