Using the ispace 2 Feature to Optimize Battery Life and Performance on Handheld Devices

One of the features that comes in really handy with the ispace 2 is Auto TDP, which allows us to manually set our frame limiter to a certain value. This can be useful for getting better battery life by setting your frame limiter to let's say 30 FPS with certain games. For instance, if we wanted to run this at a 15 watt TDP running an indie game, Auto TDP would likely bring that power consumption down to around 9 watts of power. This is definitely not the case with Star Field, but it just shows how useful Auto TDP can be in reducing power consumption.

Now that we're going to be shooting for 45 FPS with Star Field, let's take a look at our settings. We're running at 1200p so 1920x1200 low with FSR enabled again. As you can see in the menus, uh, that TDP or the CPU package power drops down quite a bit but once we enter gameplay, you'll see it needs to kind of adjust itself to get that 45 FPS lock. But once it does that, it's actually pretty steady and if you keep an eye on that CPU package power, you'll see that it jumps up to around 28 watts in some spots, and then drops back down to around 23 watts.

When using Auto TDP, we can save quite a bit of battery life compared to locking the frame limiter at a higher value. For instance, if we were locked right there at 26 Watts trying to run this at 45 FPS with no Auto TDP, it's going to pull as much as it can up to 26 Watts basically all the time even in the menus. I think it drops down just a bit around 21 Watts. But with Auto TDP, it really does help out.

As we navigate through the game, you'll notice that Auto TDP makes adjustments on the fly to keep our power consumption at an optimal level while still maintaining a smooth gaming experience. This feature is especially useful in outdoor sections of the game where the frame rate can be more variable, but even in indoor areas, it helps to keep our power usage under control.

One section of the game that I wanted to show you here is just kind of outdoor exploration. We're using the same settings as before: 1200p low with FSR enabled and Auto TDP. And yeah, even during outdoor exploration, we can get this to pretty much lock at 45 FPS feels really good like this.

Of course, performance across the board isn't always the same. During space exploration, you're only going to pull around 20 watts of power at 45 FPS. But when you go back to Jameson, which is kind of our home base for right now, it really does fall in its face with the same settings: low 1200p, Auto TDP, and we can see that we're getting up to around 31 watts and we can't hit 45 FPS even at 800p. We only get an average of around 41 at 30 Watts here with the ineo too.

Based on my testing, I'm going to chalk this up to being unoptimized right now. I think we will see better performance in this area in the future, especially with more optimizations from the game developers Bethesda and driver optimizations from AMD. For now, my sweet spot is 16 Watts with a boost up to 18 at 1200p low on this device. And if you don't mind running at 800p, you can just set it at 15 watts and have a really good time at 30 FPS.

Experimenting with Performance Mods

I've actually been experimenting with some performance mods from Nexus mod with this game on different handheld devices, I've been seeing a little increase in performance but nothing super major. As soon as we get something that's going to make a real difference, I'll be making another video showing you some optimizations that you can do to run this a lot better on lower-end hardware.

If you have any questions about my experience with the ispace 2 feature or Star Field performance on handheld devices, please let me know in the comments below. And as always, thanks for watching!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at how well Starfield runs on the eye and neo2s if you're not familiar with the eye and neo2s basically what we've got here is a 7-inch 1200p display it looks really good it's an IPS display ryzen 7 7840u with rdna3 graphics and this one just happens to have 32 gigabytes of RAM running at 7 500 Mega transfers per second as we know Starfield is a brand new game to the market so I wanted to test that on a lot of different handhelds I've already made a video of this running on the steam deck and the Rog Ally had a lot of people asking about the eye and neo2 so I figured I'd go ahead and show you how it performs here and right now we're at 1200p low we are using FSR and I've got the TDP set at 16 Watts with a little boost up to 18 watts and overall at 1200p locked at 30 FPS 16 Watts the eye in the O2 can definitely run this game really well very enjoyable experience definitely looks a lot better than running at 800p or 720 and that faster Ram really does help out with this rdna3i GPU but it does have its limitations unfortunately with Starfield on the 7840u Apu even at higher tdps it's really hard to run this at a constant 60 FPS even at 800p now we can get real close but what I want to do here was run this at 1200p I wanted to get a good looking picture decent frame rate and I know 30fps isn't appealing to a lot of people but one thing to keep in mind here is that the Xbox series X actually only runs this at 30 FPS of course we've got a higher resolution on that device but we're working with a lot less power here in the imeo 2s and I have to mention it but it's still really early for the AMD drivers and game optimizations right now so in the future we will see a nice little boost in performance but until then I want to see how well it runs on this device and keep in mind with the newest ispace update Aya Space 2 we do have something known as smart TDP which is something we will be testing out in this video but to do that I actually want to move over to my game capture so we can get a better look at everything okay so I just wanted to plug in a game capture to give you a closer look here and as you saw at 16 Watts on the ineo 2s with that boost up to 18 30 FPS 1200p is actually good to go with Starfield on this device but it does have more to offer if you're familiar with these ieneo devices you know we have ispace and with the newer updates ispace 2.0 they've actually added something really awesome that seems to function much better than any other way that I've seen it implemented so far and that's called smart TDP with these Ionia devices otherwise known as Auto TDP so uh the ineo 2s can actually go up to 33 Watts here but if we go any further it's going to enable Smart TDP basically what this is going to allow us to do is set a desired frame rate so we'll do that in just a second but we're going to go ahead and enable this now we can set our desired frame rate we can go up to 60 basically anywhere in between 30 to 60 or we could do unlimited if we want to now for Star field I don't think we're going to be able to run this at 60fps with a maximum of 33 Watts on this 7840u powered handheld we can definitely try it but I'd say around 45 FPS it's kind of a nice little sweet spot and with smart TDP enabled what it's going to do is try to give us enough power to the CPU and GPU up to that limit of 33 watts to run these games at 45 FPS or whatever we have this Frame limiter set to this can also come in really handy for getting better battery life by setting your frame limiter to let's say 30 FPS with certain games that way for instance let's say we wanted to run this at a 15 watt TDP running an indie game if we just set it manually it's going to get real close to that 15 watt TDP with smart TDP enabled there's a chance it would only really need 9 watts of power to run that game now that's definitely not going to be the case with uh star field here but I just kind of wanted to show you that with the ispace 2 comes in really handy so now we're going to be shooting for 45 FPS with star field with a Max TDP up to 33 watts and anywhere in between there all right so first up we've got an indoor section I wanted to show you the settings here we are at 1200p so 1920 by 1200 low with FSR enabled again we're using Auto TDP and as you can see in the menus uh that TDP or the CPU package power drops down quite a bit but once we enter gameplay you'll see it needs to kind of adjust itself to get that 45 FPS lock but once it does that it's actually pretty steady and if you keep an eye on that CPU package power you know we've got a couple enemies on screen right now I did see it jump up to 28. it'll go back down to around 23 and we'll still have that 45 FPS lock but it's a little all over the place I mean that's how Auto TDP works when you need it it'll throw more at it but you know in the time frames that you have that higher TDP versus the lower you can save quite a bit of battery life for instance you know if we were locked right there at 26 Watts trying to run this at 45 FPS with no Auto TDP this is going to pull as much as it can up to 26 Watts basically all the time even in the menus I think it drops down just a bit around 21 Watts so with auto TDP it really does help out now coming around this corner it's going to adjust itself drop down a bit and then go right back up to 45. that's how it works and it does work quite well on these Ionia devices with ispace too but there's another section that I wanted to show you here and that's just kind of outdoor exploration I know this planet is a bit dark but we are using the same settings here 1200p low with FSR enable and yeah I mean even during outdoor exploration we can get this to pretty much lock at 45 FPS feels really good like this and of course there are other sections in the game and performance across the board really isn't the same split space exploration you're only going to pull around 20 watts at 45 FPS during battle you'll see it jump up to around 26 but when we go back to Jameson which is kind of our home base for right now it really does fall in its face same settings low 1200p Auto TDP and you can see we're getting up to around 31 watts and we can't hit 45 FPS even at 800p we only get an average of around 41 at 30 Watts here with the ineo too and I've done a lot of testing with this game on different Hardware I'm going to kind of chalk this up to being unoptimized right now I think we will see better performance in this area in the future so what I've been doing here in this area is just locking it at 30 FPS now we're really hard pressed to run this at 60fps on an APU right now but uh you know with more optimizations from the game developers Bethesda and driver optimizations from AMD I think we will see much better performance on these devices very soon but until then I think my sweet spot is 16 Watts with a boost up to 18 1200 P low on this device and if you don't mind running at 800p you can just set it at 15 watts and have a really good time at 30 FPS with this game but that's gonna wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching I've actually been experimenting with some performance mods from Nexus mod with this game on different handheld devices I've been seeing a little increase but nothing super major as soon as we get something I will make another video showing you some optimizations that you can do to run this a lot better on Lower End Hardware if you've got any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watchingforeign hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at how well Starfield runs on the eye and neo2s if you're not familiar with the eye and neo2s basically what we've got here is a 7-inch 1200p display it looks really good it's an IPS display ryzen 7 7840u with rdna3 graphics and this one just happens to have 32 gigabytes of RAM running at 7 500 Mega transfers per second as we know Starfield is a brand new game to the market so I wanted to test that on a lot of different handhelds I've already made a video of this running on the steam deck and the Rog Ally had a lot of people asking about the eye and neo2 so I figured I'd go ahead and show you how it performs here and right now we're at 1200p low we are using FSR and I've got the TDP set at 16 Watts with a little boost up to 18 watts and overall at 1200p locked at 30 FPS 16 Watts the eye in the O2 can definitely run this game really well very enjoyable experience definitely looks a lot better than running at 800p or 720 and that faster Ram really does help out with this rdna3i GPU but it does have its limitations unfortunately with Starfield on the 7840u Apu even at higher tdps it's really hard to run this at a constant 60 FPS even at 800p now we can get real close but what I want to do here was run this at 1200p I wanted to get a good looking picture decent frame rate and I know 30fps isn't appealing to a lot of people but one thing to keep in mind here is that the Xbox series X actually only runs this at 30 FPS of course we've got a higher resolution on that device but we're working with a lot less power here in the imeo 2s and I have to mention it but it's still really early for the AMD drivers and game optimizations right now so in the future we will see a nice little boost in performance but until then I want to see how well it runs on this device and keep in mind with the newest ispace update Aya Space 2 we do have something known as smart TDP which is something we will be testing out in this video but to do that I actually want to move over to my game capture so we can get a better look at everything okay so I just wanted to plug in a game capture to give you a closer look here and as you saw at 16 Watts on the ineo 2s with that boost up to 18 30 FPS 1200p is actually good to go with Starfield on this device but it does have more to offer if you're familiar with these ieneo devices you know we have ispace and with the newer updates ispace 2.0 they've actually added something really awesome that seems to function much better than any other way that I've seen it implemented so far and that's called smart TDP with these Ionia devices otherwise known as Auto TDP so uh the ineo 2s can actually go up to 33 Watts here but if we go any further it's going to enable Smart TDP basically what this is going to allow us to do is set a desired frame rate so we'll do that in just a second but we're going to go ahead and enable this now we can set our desired frame rate we can go up to 60 basically anywhere in between 30 to 60 or we could do unlimited if we want to now for Star field I don't think we're going to be able to run this at 60fps with a maximum of 33 Watts on this 7840u powered handheld we can definitely try it but I'd say around 45 FPS it's kind of a nice little sweet spot and with smart TDP enabled what it's going to do is try to give us enough power to the CPU and GPU up to that limit of 33 watts to run these games at 45 FPS or whatever we have this Frame limiter set to this can also come in really handy for getting better battery life by setting your frame limiter to let's say 30 FPS with certain games that way for instance let's say we wanted to run this at a 15 watt TDP running an indie game if we just set it manually it's going to get real close to that 15 watt TDP with smart TDP enabled there's a chance it would only really need 9 watts of power to run that game now that's definitely not going to be the case with uh star field here but I just kind of wanted to show you that with the ispace 2 comes in really handy so now we're going to be shooting for 45 FPS with star field with a Max TDP up to 33 watts and anywhere in between there all right so first up we've got an indoor section I wanted to show you the settings here we are at 1200p so 1920 by 1200 low with FSR enabled again we're using Auto TDP and as you can see in the menus uh that TDP or the CPU package power drops down quite a bit but once we enter gameplay you'll see it needs to kind of adjust itself to get that 45 FPS lock but once it does that it's actually pretty steady and if you keep an eye on that CPU package power you know we've got a couple enemies on screen right now I did see it jump up to 28. it'll go back down to around 23 and we'll still have that 45 FPS lock but it's a little all over the place I mean that's how Auto TDP works when you need it it'll throw more at it but you know in the time frames that you have that higher TDP versus the lower you can save quite a bit of battery life for instance you know if we were locked right there at 26 Watts trying to run this at 45 FPS with no Auto TDP this is going to pull as much as it can up to 26 Watts basically all the time even in the menus I think it drops down just a bit around 21 Watts so with auto TDP it really does help out now coming around this corner it's going to adjust itself drop down a bit and then go right back up to 45. that's how it works and it does work quite well on these Ionia devices with ispace too but there's another section that I wanted to show you here and that's just kind of outdoor exploration I know this planet is a bit dark but we are using the same settings here 1200p low with FSR enable and yeah I mean even during outdoor exploration we can get this to pretty much lock at 45 FPS feels really good like this and of course there are other sections in the game and performance across the board really isn't the same split space exploration you're only going to pull around 20 watts at 45 FPS during battle you'll see it jump up to around 26 but when we go back to Jameson which is kind of our home base for right now it really does fall in its face same settings low 1200p Auto TDP and you can see we're getting up to around 31 watts and we can't hit 45 FPS even at 800p we only get an average of around 41 at 30 Watts here with the ineo too and I've done a lot of testing with this game on different Hardware I'm going to kind of chalk this up to being unoptimized right now I think we will see better performance in this area in the future so what I've been doing here in this area is just locking it at 30 FPS now we're really hard pressed to run this at 60fps on an APU right now but uh you know with more optimizations from the game developers Bethesda and driver optimizations from AMD I think we will see much better performance on these devices very soon but until then I think my sweet spot is 16 Watts with a boost up to 18 1200 P low on this device and if you don't mind running at 800p you can just set it at 15 watts and have a really good time at 30 FPS with this game but that's gonna wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching I've actually been experimenting with some performance mods from Nexus mod with this game on different handheld devices I've been seeing a little increase but nothing super major as soon as we get something I will make another video showing you some optimizations that you can do to run this a lot better on Lower End Hardware if you've got any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watchingforeign hey what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at how well Starfield runs on the eye and neo2s if you're not familiar with the eye and neo2s basically what we've got here is a 7-inch 1200p display it looks really good it's an IPS display ryzen 7 7840u with rdna3 graphics and this one just happens to have 32 gigabytes of RAM running at 7 500 Mega transfers per second as we know Starfield is a brand new game to the market so I wanted to test that on a lot of different handhelds I've already made a video of this running on the steam deck and the Rog Ally had a lot of people asking about the eye and neo2 so I figured I'd go ahead and show you how it performs here and right now we're at 1200p low we are using FSR and I've got the TDP set at 16 Watts with a little boost up to 18 watts and overall at 1200p locked at 30 FPS 16 Watts the eye in the O2 can definitely run this game really well very enjoyable experience definitely looks a lot better than running at 800p or 720 and that faster Ram really does help out with this rdna3i GPU but it does have its limitations unfortunately with Starfield on the 7840u Apu even at higher tdps it's really hard to run this at a constant 60 FPS even at 800p now we can get real close but what I want to do here was run this at 1200p I wanted to get a good looking picture decent frame rate and I know 30fps isn't appealing to a lot of people but one thing to keep in mind here is that the Xbox series X actually only runs this at 30 FPS of course we've got a higher resolution on that device but we're working with a lot less power here in the imeo 2s and I have to mention it but it's still really early for the AMD drivers and game optimizations right now so in the future we will see a nice little boost in performance but until then I want to see how well it runs on this device and keep in mind with the newest ispace update Aya Space 2 we do have something known as smart TDP which is something we will be testing out in this video but to do that I actually want to move over to my game capture so we can get a better look at everything okay so I just wanted to plug in a game capture to give you a closer look here and as you saw at 16 Watts on the ineo 2s with that boost up to 18 30 FPS 1200p is actually good to go with Starfield on this device but it does have more to offer if you're familiar with these ieneo devices you know we have ispace and with the newer updates ispace 2.0 they've actually added something really awesome that seems to function much better than any other way that I've seen it implemented so far and that's called smart TDP with these Ionia devices otherwise known as Auto TDP so uh the ineo 2s can actually go up to 33 Watts here but if we go any further it's going to enable Smart TDP basically what this is going to allow us to do is set a desired frame rate so we'll do that in just a second but we're going to go ahead and enable this now we can set our desired frame rate we can go up to 60 basically anywhere in between 30 to 60 or we could do unlimited if we want to now for Star field I don't think we're going to be able to run this at 60fps with a maximum of 33 Watts on this 7840u powered handheld we can definitely try it but I'd say around 45 FPS it's kind of a nice little sweet spot and with smart TDP enabled what it's going to do is try to give us enough power to the CPU and GPU up to that limit of 33 watts to run these games at 45 FPS or whatever we have this Frame limiter set to this can also come in really handy for getting better battery life by setting your frame limiter to let's say 30 FPS with certain games that way for instance let's say we wanted to run this at a 15 watt TDP running an indie game if we just set it manually it's going to get real close to that 15 watt TDP with smart TDP enabled there's a chance it would only really need 9 watts of power to run that game now that's definitely not going to be the case with uh star field here but I just kind of wanted to show you that with the ispace 2 comes in really handy so now we're going to be shooting for 45 FPS with star field with a Max TDP up to 33 watts and anywhere in between there all right so first up we've got an indoor section I wanted to show you the settings here we are at 1200p so 1920 by 1200 low with FSR enabled again we're using Auto TDP and as you can see in the menus uh that TDP or the CPU package power drops down quite a bit but once we enter gameplay you'll see it needs to kind of adjust itself to get that 45 FPS lock but once it does that it's actually pretty steady and if you keep an eye on that CPU package power you know we've got a couple enemies on screen right now I did see it jump up to 28. it'll go back down to around 23 and we'll still have that 45 FPS lock but it's a little all over the place I mean that's how Auto TDP works when you need it it'll throw more at it but you know in the time frames that you have that higher TDP versus the lower you can save quite a bit of battery life for instance you know if we were locked right there at 26 Watts trying to run this at 45 FPS with no Auto TDP this is going to pull as much as it can up to 26 Watts basically all the time even in the menus I think it drops down just a bit around 21 Watts so with auto TDP it really does help out now coming around this corner it's going to adjust itself drop down a bit and then go right back up to 45. that's how it works and it does work quite well on these Ionia devices with ispace too but there's another section that I wanted to show you here and that's just kind of outdoor exploration I know this planet is a bit dark but we are using the same settings here 1200p low with FSR enable and yeah I mean even during outdoor exploration we can get this to pretty much lock at 45 FPS feels really good like this and of course there are other sections in the game and performance across the board really isn't the same split space exploration you're only going to pull around 20 watts at 45 FPS during battle you'll see it jump up to around 26 but when we go back to Jameson which is kind of our home base for right now it really does fall in its face same settings low 1200p Auto TDP and you can see we're getting up to around 31 watts and we can't hit 45 FPS even at 800p we only get an average of around 41 at 30 Watts here with the ineo too and I've done a lot of testing with this game on different Hardware I'm going to kind of chalk this up to being unoptimized right now I think we will see better performance in this area in the future so what I've been doing here in this area is just locking it at 30 FPS now we're really hard pressed to run this at 60fps on an APU right now but uh you know with more optimizations from the game developers Bethesda and driver optimizations from AMD I think we will see much better performance on these devices very soon but until then I think my sweet spot is 16 Watts with a boost up to 18 1200 P low on this device and if you don't mind running at 800p you can just set it at 15 watts and have a really good time at 30 FPS with this game but that's gonna wrap it up for this video really appreciate you watching I've actually been experimenting with some performance mods from Nexus mod with this game on different handheld devices I've been seeing a little increase but nothing super major as soon as we get something I will make another video showing you some optimizations that you can do to run this a lot better on Lower End Hardware if you've got any questions let me know in the comments below and like always thanks for watching\n"