PPD Dropped drastically?

[Slaughter]

Originally Posted by chrisk

Try downloading and doing a clean install of your drivers.

This seemed to do it! Thanks!

[Inik]

My 560 is doing the same thing!! I did a clean reinstall and it still drop to 2D! Is there a solution to this problem?

[stoanee]

Try this:
PowerMizer Manager | Some More Bytes

It was posted in chimp talk as a possible solution.

[Coffaholic]

Well, instead of creating another thread, this one seemed to be spot on.

Since getting my 560Ti (evga) I have noticed that after closing down the folding client, I MUST restart the system in order to get 3d clocks back. There is no way around it that i have been able to find. I have tried setting the power settings in the nvidia control panel, tried the app that stoanee suggested above, tried reinstalling drivers, reinstalling OS, reverting back to stock clocks....

Took some screenshots.

On Fresh Restart:


After Stopping the FAHgpu3 client:


I havent been able to google my way out of this one. If anyone has anything else I could try, i would be more than happy to.

Having an SSD boot drive, a full restart only takes 30s or so, but its still a hassle that shouldnt be there.

[Inik]

Stoanee suggested me an app : Nvidia Powermizer Manager.

It solved my problem with my Gigabyte 560 Ti.

Try it and let us know!

[Coffaholic]

I gave it a shot before posting. I set the options to Fixed Performance Level: Max.Perf/Min.PowerSave for both the battery and AC adaptor settings. Saved and restarted and it failed to lock the clocks at 3d just like the nvidia control panel power setting

[chrisk]

Try Rivatuner and check the force 3D clocks option (I have not used Riva in over a year, but that option/or a similar one helped me with a similar issue a long while back)

[stoanee]

Seems to be a bit of trouble lately with gpu folding. I used to run Rivatuner to force the gpu into 3d mode when the other methods failed.

[Coffaholic]

"EnablePerfLevelForcing" - is this the option you mean? Its in the Power user tab, RivaTuner\NVIDIA\Overclocking section. "Set this entry to 1 to unlock 'Force constant performance level' option." is the description. Sounds like what I need.

Once I made this change, it locked it on 3d clocks while sitting at the desktop, and remained that way after I exited a game....but as soon as I stopped folding again, it was the same ole story. It would throttle down to 2d clocks and would not kick back to 3d no matter what I tried (except for restarting the machine)

Seems odd that none of my efforts to lock the clocks have worked. Makes me think that something else may be wrong but everything else is working beautifully. Just this minor inconvenience of having to restart after folding before I'm able to do gpu intensive tasks.


Edit: So I uninstalled rivatuner, powermizer, and reverted the nvidia control panel to adaptive power...basically giving up for now, restarted my machine and started folding again. When I got home my gpu WU was finished (set -oneunit flag) and decided to fire up Kombustor to see if it magically fixed itself. Well...it did, lol. The clock switching is working fine without restarting windows after ending a folding session. I honestly cannot remember if I have tested the system after a clean finish of a WU, perhaps all the testing came by manually stopping a WU during its run. I fired up the client again, and stopped it once it hit a checkpoint. Fired up Kombustor and I'm stuck at 2D clocks again. Gonna let it finish and see if everything works again.

[Coffaholic]

So I have let a few WU's complete and ran Kombustor after each one, and the clock switching works properly between 2D, 3D and the lowest setting (drops clocks to 50\67\101). Odd that stopping a WU mid-run would prevent this.