firefalcon

I'm bumping this again with an update: This time last week, I made a full re installation of Windows 10, and up until today, the GPU was working fine again. Now, as it stands, the GPU is starting to exhibit the same behaviors as mentioned above. Hope someone can help me out on this, as the warranty for this laptop is expired, and I can't really afford a new one.

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Update 2: I tried doing another test on the Overclock, in Overwatch with the same settings, below are the Afterburner monitoring results. This shows very clearly what exactly the GPU does in most situations in Overwatch: 2-3 mins of fairly typical game load (45-70%) and reasonable temperatures, kind of peaks and stays around 85° Celsius for a good 20 seconds, and then the abnormal temperature limit kicks on at about half way through the 6 minute game session, deciding that it HAS to go down to 55° Celsius for no apparent reason. Hope this Afterburner screenshot gives more context.

Update: so here are the screenshots of GPU-Z + Afterburner for Overwatch, running at stock GPU speed, then Overcloked at 720p on low settings. As you can see on the "Capture 1" image, for the first couple of minutes, the graphics card is running very normally, with high load 80-100%. After that, the core clock lowers itself and GPU load is cut to make sure the chip isn't exceeding 55°. Normal clock speed here should be 1189MHz, but ended up being at 1098MHz for practically the whole game, once again with abnormally low GPU load. Capture 1: On the "Capture2" image, you see a similar Overwatch test, with an Overclock of 135MHz on the core, and 400 MHz on the memory. Here, the GPU took until the very end of the game I was playing to do its shenanigans, where its load lowered quite substantially during the "Play of the Game" sequence to try and reach 55°. Otherwise, for some reason, it held load quite high, sometimes lowering the core clock speed by about 70-100 MHz. Although an improvement, I'm pretty certain that had the game carried on, I would have been seeing the GPU desperately try to reach below 55° again for the rest of that game. Capture 2: So yeah, this is the situation at hand. Would be very glad if someone could decipher the info here and through that find a fix. PS: Memory usage also was stable on both runs, though you can't see it on the screenshot.

Heya there, I'm writing to ask about some issues I've been having with my laptop's graphics card, What essentially happens is that after about 2-3 mins of load, the GPU has been setting its thermal limit to 55 degrees Celsius in most game (more on that further below). Another thing that occurs then is that the laptop's fan is always on at what sounds like maximum speed while this is occuring. I've checked MSI Afterburner, and another weird occurence is that the core clock is constantly locked at 1098MHz while the GPU is idle and I'm sitting and looking at the desktop. Now, the game I play most these days is Overwatch, where the laptop very clearly tries its damndest to keep the GPU below 55°, lowering my frames/second from the 100-110 mark to the 40-50 mark. Load on the GPU drops from around 45-60% to a low 25-45%. On DOOM (OpenGL mode), the laptop doesn't seem to lower its temperature as low, instead trying to keep it to a maximum of 70° Celsius. Clock speed in that game tend to hit the maximum allowed by any overclock I set, but often dip back down in intense sequences in game, once again, to keep to that 70°. FPS in DOOM has gone from a usual 60-70 FPS, to now around 50 FPS, given the settings I'm using. I've combed around the PC and GPU settings for any sort of fix (checking power settings in both Windows and the Nvidia Control Panel, resetting overclocks done with MSI Afterburner,), but nothing seems to fix the issue, besides a driver reinstallation, which used to fix the issue for about 24 hours each time I did it, but now simply doesn't anymore. Looking at GPU-Z diagnostics, Voltages seem to be fine (although they lower themselves once that anomalous temperature limit kicks in), so I think I can rule out anything to do with a faulty power converter or PSU. The laptop in question is an Acer Aspire VN7-791 series. I've tried rolling back drivers, making sure the vBios is up to date, same with the BIOS itself, ect. Other specs include an i7-4720HQ and 8GB of DDR3 RAM. The laptop is two years old, and I've not done any Vbios modifications or any related "boosted" overclocking on the GPU. Essentialy the graphics card in here has not been tampered with and has been kept within its overclocking limits in MSI Afterburner. No artifacting is occuring, so the graphics card for sure isn't dead. If anyone can help me out, I would be incredibly grateful ! Cheers, Owen. PS: I'll get in some screenshots from GPU-Z and Afterburner soon(ish), in case those may help identify any issues.

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