NVIDIA Cards and Auto-Detect Settings

[76561198827547584]

Hi All,

To ensure that auto detect is working properly on NVIDIA cards, here are the steps required:

1) Right click on the desktop and select "NVIDIA Control Panel"
2) Inside the control panel, navigate to "Manage 3D Settings"
3) Inside the "Global Settings" tab, set "Power management mode" to "Prefer maximum performance" as seen in the image below:

{LINK REMOVED}https://imgur.com/WIRb9mY

If this setting is not enabled, the benchmark can give random results depending on how the graphics driver has clocked the video card.

[boris-74]

Since when should i do that for a game? This gets more and more desastrous.

[lefty1117]

People will complain about anything these days

[vivas]

Originally posted by boris-74:

Since when should i do that for a game? This gets more and more desastrous.

yeah i agree, it took me at least 30 seconds to check that. Outrageous, it is 2018 you shouldn't spend that much time configuring something for a game.

[ZiN]

I see on the screenshot that you're applying this setting globally. I definitely don't want to do that, does this work as a program-specific setting as well?

[Paranoid Android]

I did this and disable vsync ingame to activate it in nvdia control pannel and the framerate is a little bit better

[Merzhin]

Originally posted by ZiN:

I see on the screenshot that you're applying this setting globally. I definitely don't want to do that, does this work as a program-specific setting as well?

This option only allows your graphic card to get the most power when using 3d softwares like games, so in no way it can harm your system, it's just to get the most from your gpu.

[Red]

don;t do this ( or at least just do this for the game but turn it off right after) . as your gpu will run at max eventhough whatever prog you are using is not demanding it.

[Red]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Redhunt:

don;t do this ( or at least just do this for the game but turn it off right after) . as your gpu will run at max eventhough whatever prog you are using is not demanding it.

Only during gaming, and why wouldn't you want max performance when you are playing games?

no one would remember to do that. Advice to turn on for Bard Tale 4 auto detect, then turn off when you're not playing BT4 is a pretty self-indulgent advice.

Better advice would be saying to wait for patch x.x.x which will be coming out in y.y.y.

[Red]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Redhunt:

no one would remember to do that. Advice to turn on for Bard Tale 4 auto detect, then turn off when you're not playing BT4 is a pretty self-indulgent advice.

You don't need to turn it off. Turn it on to max performance and keep it there. Why wouldn't you want max performance when playing a game?

cause max performance causes your gpu to work at max when you're not playing the game, like i mentioned before

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4x15ax/optimal_power_adaptive_or_highest_performance/

even this says this is the game's problem, if you have to do it.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3130/~/setting-power-management-mode-from-adaptive-to-maximum-performance

[Red]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Originally posted by Redhunt:

cause max performance causes your gpu to work at max when you're not playing the game, like i mentioned before

https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/4x15ax/optimal_power_adaptive_or_highest_performance/

Except for it doesn't. When you are not playing a game, the GPU idles to it's minimum clocks, uses less power, fan speeds are minimal. it only uses Max Performance when you are playing games.

if you use adaptive, or optimal power. Not maximum as per the original thread post.

[Red]

Originally posted by Eisberg:

Even the tool tip literally says
"Prefer maximum performance maintains the card at its maximum performance state when 3D applications are running regardless of GPU usage, which can increase power consumption"

so again, it only goes into Maximum Performance state when you are running 3D applications. Which is why my GPU doesn't run at Maximum performance outside of games, but only in games.

up to you to dream on

but to all others that read, please do not turn to maximum unless you can remember to turn it to optimal or adaptive when not playing this game

[vocab]

He's right, it only uses maximum power when you are running a game. However, if you use a browser or discord that has GPU acceleration enabled, it too will also use maximum performance. You can easily test this with afterburner. Beware of using optimal power for games. It has been semi broken for over 6 months with me reporting about it since forever ago.

[SeriousCCIE]

wow I adjust my power settings for my PC and the video card (if I didnt make a custom game profile already)... for every game I play.

I even have different overclock profiles that differ in just how agressive and crash prone the PC may be--some games don't crash as easily as others.

To hear that someone is upset that they need to change a setting that is just a part of what I do daily to make sure that I'm tweaking all that I can out of my system.... well. I had to wait for my atari jaguar to load stuff on the ferocious 2x cd rom toliet that sat on top of it. and my c64 I had to change the channel while things loaded and sometimes I forgot I was even trying to load something and then flipped back to channel 3 and saw it was waiting for me to insert disk 2 for like an hour.

kids these days. my disks became corrupt when I double sided them, and that's the way we liked it because our parents wouldn't buy us the $1 diskettes that were double sided and double density!

[noldor]

I have mine set to Optimal. I am Alpha testing an unoptimized game which uses 100% of my GTX 1050Ti board...resulting at 61°C temp. I'll try setting it to "Prefer maximum performance" and see what changes.

TQQdles™

[DEADPOO]

Originally posted by boris-74:

Since when should i do that for a game? This gets more and more desastrous.

Since when do we have to press Overdrive in some car to get better performance? Oh no, the horror!