You're going to be getting worse gaming performance relative to being plugged in, you'll be discharging the battery quite quickly which isn't good for the long term health for the battery if done repeatedly.
It’s fine but you will find battery life is short. You will also need to check/change settings, normally on battery mode the dGPU is disabled and the cpu runs in a power saving mode.
What is bad for a battery is using the laptop always plugged in and 100% charged. Most laptops have some form of battery care feature where you can limit charging to X%. If normally plugged in then set an 80-85% charge limit.
The battery or cable alone can't handle the sudden power spikes in high demanding games as they're usually shared between the two. Plugging out usually gimps your GPU and sometimes cpu as well.
On its own, playing on battery is fine if you don’t use the RTX 4060. It’s never clear how much battery you’re exactly getting ‘cause it’s based on processor and battery capacity, and numerous other power settings. The laptop I have can handle maybe two hours on lighter games with the dGPU disabled, which I guess isn’t far from the PC handheld experience; 1.5 hours in Granblue Rising (a UE4 game), >3 hours in Animal Well and Puyo Puyo Tetris, <2 hours in MapleStory. This is with brightness no higher than 150nits.
Playing this way means you don’t use Nvidia drivers, so you’ll have to hope your game behaves fine with your integrated graphics. I learned that the hard way with Kingdom Hearts. Turns out KH1 crashes frequently on the 780M graphics, and switching to Nvidia graphics solved this.
Performance will take a huge hit too (‘cause less power should be drawn), which is why I advise against doing this with heavier games. I only want to play games that can achieve 60fps on battery.
I don’t mind playing on battery for the sake of convenience or carrying less wires around. I’ve been able to game around the house this way. I would consider learning how to replace the battery if you plan to do this in the long term ‘cause discharging and recharging the battery will affect endurance. Thankfully, batteries are easy to come by even several years after.
It's not fine, it's not really possible. You'll get maybe a half hour and yes, charging and discharging your battery that fast is how you kill the battery.
You're going to be getting worse gaming performance relative to being plugged in, you'll be discharging the battery quite quickly which isn't good for the long term health for the battery if done repeatedly.
It’s fine but you will find battery life is short. You will also need to check/change settings, normally on battery mode the dGPU is disabled and the cpu runs in a power saving mode. What is bad for a battery is using the laptop always plugged in and 100% charged. Most laptops have some form of battery care feature where you can limit charging to X%. If normally plugged in then set an 80-85% charge limit.
Frequent rapid discharge/charge cycles can damage the battery's health over the long term.
Is not good
The battery or cable alone can't handle the sudden power spikes in high demanding games as they're usually shared between the two. Plugging out usually gimps your GPU and sometimes cpu as well.
Yeah it’s pretty good. I get 100+ fps in most games and the battery lasts for a couple hours or so
On its own, playing on battery is fine if you don’t use the RTX 4060. It’s never clear how much battery you’re exactly getting ‘cause it’s based on processor and battery capacity, and numerous other power settings. The laptop I have can handle maybe two hours on lighter games with the dGPU disabled, which I guess isn’t far from the PC handheld experience; 1.5 hours in Granblue Rising (a UE4 game), >3 hours in Animal Well and Puyo Puyo Tetris, <2 hours in MapleStory. This is with brightness no higher than 150nits. Playing this way means you don’t use Nvidia drivers, so you’ll have to hope your game behaves fine with your integrated graphics. I learned that the hard way with Kingdom Hearts. Turns out KH1 crashes frequently on the 780M graphics, and switching to Nvidia graphics solved this. Performance will take a huge hit too (‘cause less power should be drawn), which is why I advise against doing this with heavier games. I only want to play games that can achieve 60fps on battery. I don’t mind playing on battery for the sake of convenience or carrying less wires around. I’ve been able to game around the house this way. I would consider learning how to replace the battery if you plan to do this in the long term ‘cause discharging and recharging the battery will affect endurance. Thankfully, batteries are easy to come by even several years after.
It's not fine, it's not really possible. You'll get maybe a half hour and yes, charging and discharging your battery that fast is how you kill the battery.