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    Why is Powermizer so stupid?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by mew1838, Oct 1, 2009.

  1. mew1838

    mew1838 Team Teal

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    What causes Powermizer to downclock the GPU, is it the lack of activity or the lack of games running in the background. It constantly downclocks my GPU when watching videos in full screen and causing severe lag. Surely Nvidia isn't this stupid?
     
    mew1838, Oct 1, 2009
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    Galdere Notebook Consultant

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    Turn it off then.

    The lag is probably caused by something else anyway.
     
    Galdere, Oct 1, 2009
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    Nope the lag is because the GPU downclocks to 160/100 which is totally fine with me as long as I am not actually watching a video. I mean, how can it not recognize that I am watching a video which requires GPU processing? I don't want to turn it on and off everytime I want to watch youtube, cnn streams, etc2.
     
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    Decoding videos doesn't require that much work from the cpu. Even completely at it's lowest setting my 9600m decode 1080p h264 without a hitch. The source of your problem is somewhere else: Flash is not GPU accelerated, so Nvidia powermizer has nothing to do with this. Something is hogging your CPU cycles.
     
    Ayle, Oct 1, 2009
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    The video is smooth when not in full screen. Thus my t9600 is working fine.
     
    mew1838, Oct 1, 2009
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    Are you saying it plays fine when you have Powermiser disabled?
     
    namaiki, Oct 1, 2009
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    ZP=WIN Notebook Consultant

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    yes he is. i have the same computer and problem.
     
    ZP=WIN, Oct 2, 2009
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