New vBios, performance q's

Hey folks.
I've been noticing some games perform a little less than I would expect. I took a look at GPU-z, and it's showing the clock speeds at 700/1000 still, but my card doesn't seem to go above 500/1000 during WoW (haven't checked with other games). What's up with that? Is that supposed to happen with the v93 vBios?

 

Are you using chas' OD edition, or the standard gary one?

 

Matters zero. The clock settings are exactly the same.

 

Gary's version.

 

500/1000 are the UVD, video clocks. That means you have a video open, whether it's in your browser or not. If you want to watch videos and still play WoW, just disable all GPU acceleration. Disable hardware acceleration on flash and don't use DXVA on any of your video players.

 

Disable powerplay in the catalyst control centre when you're playing games. It'll run the gpu @ full speed.

 

No need for this at all... And also disabling PowerPlay also disable OverDrive. It's not a suggestion I would ever give to anyone.

 

It doesn't turn off overdrive. It eliminates throttling and disables power saving features associated with the GPU. It has NOTHING to do with overdrive.

The reason you wouldn't give that to anyone is because you most likely don't know what you're doing.

 

My mistake, OverDrive is fine. Disabling PowerPlay is still a stupid suggestion. A laptop without power saving measures is a useless laptop far as I'm concerned.

His issue has NOTHING to do with disabling PowerPlay. That's not the culprit and there is absolutely no reason why he needs to disable it.

 

Ok...

Well, I suggested turning off powerplay for when he's playing games only. Then the GPU would be running at 700gpu / 1000mem which is what he wants in the first place.

The reason that his GPU is running at 500 / 1000 has EVERYTHING to do with powerplay. If it didn't have anything to do with powerplay, then why is his GPU downclocking to 500 when he's in 3D mode??

 

He is watching a video. It's not a PowerPlay issue. PowerPlay is not broken, it's working as it's supposed to be. There is absolutely no reason to turn it off. If he wants to watch a video and game at the same time, for whatever reason he may have, just disable GPU acceleration or DXVA. Disabling PowerPlay would work, but it's not the solution I would ever recommend when he could just close his youtube tab on his browser.

 

There are no videos playing. The only program I have running outside of WoW is my Antivirus which runs in the background. I will disable hardware acceleration and get back to you.

Just disabled hardware acceleration and it worked, 700/1000.
Thanks for the advice folks.

 

Then there is something wrong with your WoW setup. The 500/1000 clock setting is most definitely the UVD video setting. WoW does not register as a video for the PowerPlay setting. So there is something else going on.

I don't know what it is, couldn't even guess to tell you. But something is wrong.

 

I've seen Steam trip up the UVD detection, and some cutscenes get detected as videos.

 

Was thinking of that, but still wouldn't see why 500/1000 would be fixed after a cut scene video.

 

Maybe the drivers detect WoW's graphics to be no better than Disney animated graphics, and downclocks.

 

Where did you find this option exactly..?

 

I went to YouTube, clicked on a random video, right clicked the video, hit settings, then the monitor looking tab, there's a checkbox for "Enable Hardware Acceleration".

 

Are Bios same for both G53 & G73 laptops ?
or they have different bios ?

How do we know if theres a new bios out & we need to update ?

Thanks