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    A little tip for those gpu sometimes downclocks to low power 3d while gaming

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by dougbrad82, May 7, 2010.

  1. dougbrad82

    dougbrad82 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,
    Not sure how known this is, but its a useful little tip that works for me. when sometimes after long period of gaming, my gpu would downclock to low power 3d mode and stay there. usually i have to restart my laptop at this point. but it turns out you can reset the gpu driver by going into device manager and disable your video card, then enable it again. this will enable it to go into high power 3d mode again, and you can continue gaming without restarting the laptop. this works fine on my asus m50sv with nvidia 9500m. hope someone finds this useful.
     
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  2. tuηay

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    Sure that it is not caused by overheat? It sounds more like a issue then tip :D
     
    tuηay, May 7, 2010
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    No moar restarts :D. Thanks dude!!
     
    ZP=WIN, May 7, 2010
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  4. HTWingNut

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    Yeah, sounds like it's overheating and downclocking to protect it. However, it is probably a glitch that it won't reset once temps are safe.

    tuηay - Is that a lemming in your avatar?
     
    HTWingNut, May 7, 2010
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    key001 Notebook Evangelist

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    they could check the clocks with gpu-z to see if it's downclocking or sth else

    looks like an alien from XCOM after he got headshotted
     
    key001, May 8, 2010
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    dougbrad82 Notebook Consultant

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    not an overheating issue with me, my temps never go above 76 for the gpu. the downclock to low power 3d happens also sometimes when i start a game. also occasionally when i resume from hibernate, it will be stuck in low power 3d. rather than having to restart in those cases, the tip above resets the driver so it can go into high power 3d mode or reset powermizer if its stuck at a certain mode.

    edit: and there other cases in these forums where the gpu randomly downclocks to low power 3d mode despite not overheating.
     
    dougbrad82, May 8, 2010
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    Hmm, am having a problem with powermizer getting stuck in maximum clock hence, the cooling fan runs continuously on my laptop. Have never disabled the video drivers before... can you tell me what happens? Am getting sick and tired of having to reboot. Thanks.
     
    DaveVelo, Apr 16, 2011
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  8. tuηay

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    Heey!! I've just saw this! Actually, I have no idea about what it is, it is my Xbox avatar, which I've found over at Xbox.com :) I like the look tou :cool:
     
    tuηay, Apr 16, 2011
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    awesome! no more restarts when stuck in low-3d coming out of hibernate! great tip, +rep to you sir :)
     
    crazymofo156, Apr 16, 2011
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  10. tuηay

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    And for me bumping this therad in order to reply HTWingNut? :D
    J/K.
     
    tuηay, Apr 16, 2011
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