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Sorry for late reply. It wouldnt surprize me that it could be that, i had just recently downloaded the latest driver and it blacked out my second monitor thats powered by a 630 GPU, i noticed that the NVidia software wasnt reconizing my gpu, so after about 10mins of troubleshooting i decided to contact NVidia support live chat. It turns out that the driver update is having issues and they told me to wait for the next update to come and dont use this latest drivers. So ya, as it turns out that i feel downloading their drivers is like gambling, when you download the latest driver its either going to work or its not. i have never ever needed to contact support from win2000 to win7, but since running win10 i have needed to contact NVidia about roughly 6-8 times just for random dum shit. I think NVidia doesnt truely care about quality anymore and because they are a massive corporation now they dont care for their customers, which is why i dont spend more then roughly 20mins troubleshooting things anymore i just contact them cause im sick and tired of the headaches.

You have a 1070, so have you tried different ports on the card? Could be a faulty port or cable. But this sounds like perhaps the GeForce software is hanging when its trying to load, i would perhaps contact NVidia's live chat and get them to connect to your PC to fix it, thats what i do. The way i see it, why should you be spending your time and money on troubleshooting problems like this, they take enough money from already make them earn their $$$. I had a similar problem, but once they uninstalled Geforce and reinstalled it, it seemed to work after that.

@Turismo98 Not saying that this could be 100% ur problem, but i have had this happen before, due to a malware attack. That is IF your system was running perfectly before you started uninstalling programs, or were you uninstalling software because things werent running right with your PC? Dont know what type of software that you were uninstalling, but if ur using crappy software, sometimes timebombs are intalled with them and when you go and uninstall there software, they turn around and mess with your settings. This exact same thing has happened to me on 3 different customers PC's. Now not that the answers really matter, but i would do a full system scan using malwarebytes, then a antivirus scan, then use CCleaner to clean up your registry files. If you have became a victim of a malware attack this will fix it. Or you might have to simply do what @Tabs said and reboot from a backup or restore point.

My best guess its because of office, i have found office to be one of the culprits on many windows occasion's. Anyhow i use 7-zip for the past 10+ years never had an issue and its actually easier and better then the normal winzip (if thats the software you're missing)

Love it!!! im gunna use that one day!!! Also i just downloaded this PDF, dunno if you have yet or not, i havent started reading it, but from what i glanced over it looks kind of interesting. privacy-business-resource-21-australian-businesses-and-the-eu-general-data-protection-regulation.pdf So its a start, its effective as of the 25th of May 2018

@AncientNerd Well said, im glad that someone that has had a work history similar to me, so now i hope people can see the truths. (Off Topic) I remember working for a place where we sold genuine and non-genuine parts, but the product/item would come out of the same manufacture. Example; Our company would have starter motors in a white box, and inside the white box we would have different OEM stickers that came inside the box, so if the customer wanted that starter motor as a non-genuine part, we wouldnt put stickers on it. But if they requested for a genuine part, then we would put the OEM sticker on the item, if it was lets say Toyota we would put a Toyota OEM sticker on it. When i question head office about this, they said all the parts come out of the exact same place where all alternators are manufactured. Now the only difference between the two items was the price and warranty given. OEM offered 3 to 5 yrs warranty + $50 to $150 more then the non-genuine. Where as non-genuine offered 6 months to a 1 year warranty + the price of them were between $50 to $80 buy price. So you could buy a non-genuine for a max price of $80 Or, you could buy genuine for max price of $240 But they were both the exact same part, lolz And im sure, you would of seen similar things like this too!

Yeah but you are mentioning about warranty and guarantee. Im saying take that out of the picture. What im trying to mention is that, you have a product physically in your hand, whether its a tv, dvd, laptop, what the case and its broken for what ever reason. Now the law stipulates that a company offering or selling products must provide a warranty or guarantee if the product is faulty in any way as its intended of use. What voids this warranty and guarantee is if the owner of the product touches or modifies their product. This i get and agree with, plus its standard law basically anywhere around the globe. But, i cant see how if a person/owner/end user what ever you would like to call it, has purchased a physical product, ie Linues's case a IMac, that he can not physically get it fixed. Im no lawyer, but im pretty sure there is some type of law stating that IF a company provides a product to consumers that can not refuse to repair it, like Apple has. Sure he touched it, so its not covered under warranty or any guarantee's he has to pay full price for the repair job. But refusing repairs, i highly doubt they are allowed to do that. Yes. I agree. Im only speaking from what i experience and when i talk with people (Normally under the age of 25-30) they under this believe that the EULA and ToS is law, and always comment "Oh, its in there ToS, so they have not broken any law". Just because something is written in the EULA or ToS doesnt mean its law. For example, an online gaming company had in their ToS that if you downloaded and played the game you werent allowed to have a refund. Now Australia authorities sued them just over $3 million because Australian law states under the Australian Consumer Act that us Australians have a thing called a 2 week cooling off period and have the right to be eligible to a refund with in a 2 week period of any transaction type for purchasing. So no matter what contract, EULA, TOS or anything else of what they say in there, matters. Also, i can not make a contract between us, if you borrowed $100 from me and i said to that you have 1 month to pay me back the full amount and if you dont then ill put a bullet through your head. Just cause i made that ToS, contract or EULA doesnt mean its law, cause i dont have the right to be putting bullets through peoples heads, lols. And im just trying to tell people just because its stipulated in a contract or EULA or ToS, it doesnt mean its law. Those contracts are only policies that coincide within the law of practice. So i believe once the younger generation start to understand this they might start to stand up and start pushing back on these bully tactics, lead from the bigger corporations, which is what i was referring to mostly in my OP. But after reading your post its basically where im at the moment trying to start to get people or get the ball rolling, to understand the differences between whats a company policy is and what law is. And as far as im aware, like you stated too, that law needs to hurry the hell up and start fixing this tech bulliness before its too late.

No, how in the hell i miss that, lolz... reading it now!

Which is why i said within reason, just because you have FULL insurance doesnt mean that you can drive in the bush, as that is an entirely different kind of insurance. These types of things happen as well and people sometimes dont understand this.

Well must be a country thing, cause we can insure anything here in Australia (within reason)

In this is the exact reason why they are doing what it is they are doing, now i dont know if you had watch that entire court issue, but this is where and what the leaders were trying to point out. This practices arent allowed and never been allowed with anything else. Now im not an avid user of facebook, i have an account and i login for probably 5 to 10 mins every couple of days, but one thing i hate about FB, is that in there settings, its confusing and they twist words around and the options that they say does this, it doesnt. Then on top of that when i report something, i get no responses or answers. Im not one of those people that are paranoid about privacy like most others, but i hate it when im flooded with so much crap on my screen that it makes me annoyed and i dont know how to make FB clear and usable, so i went in to play with the settings, i spent roughly a day (6hr) in their settings area and still couldnt get what i want done. So i started asking questions through their help support, and got no where.

I didnt pick and choose anything, i am just showing 1 particular example per problem. Your friend should of had insurance on the car.

Yeah well if i had the money, i would fund any lawyer that would be willing to fight this. I know we would win, but we just need the right people to help fight this bullshit that understands what these tech companies are getting away with.

And this is why tech companies are getting away with it, its because of people like you, just accepting thats the way it is, when its not. I can understand the refusal for warranty & guarantee if someone has touched there products, this is pretty normal EVERYWHERE, but denying service, sorry NO! Generally in any other manufacture policy, lets say LG TV, and you touched the inside of it, then YES LG can refuse or void your warranty or guarantee of the product, but they HAVE TO FIX OR REPAIR IT, they cannot do what Apple is doing and refuse service, no other manufacture in the world is allowed to do this, but the big tech companies are allowed to do this?

I dont know if just an Australian thing or not, but "Tap & Go" is when you can pay for goods just by tapping the chip on the card onto the screen of the eftpos machine on a specified cap limit set by the banks, in my case $100. Now we have an option, use our bank cards or use our phones. I know how google pay works and what it does, but my argument here is it took me like 5 mins to set it up, took me about 2 hours to get rid of my details. My point is that these tech companies make it easy for anyone to setup things, but make it virtually impossible and time consuming in order to undo something. And i dont know where you got your info from, but YES google does store your info on their servers, if you read my text.doc you would of seen how they do it. I remember about 10+ years a similar scenario happened with email subscribing and there was no way that you could unsubscribe from them, not until the government stepped in to stop this crap, the government FORCED them by law that in order to allow email subscriptions to keep going, they also needed to have a way for the end user to be able to unsubscribe from them, hence the reason why you now see the unsubscribe links on every single email subscription, back in the day there wasnt this option ever.

G'Day LTT and others, I'm sure, I'm not the only one that feels this way, but I'm curious to know others opinions on this matter. I just feel that the big tech corporations like Apple, Facebook, Google, etc... are getting away with providing services to people, that are under false pretences to the end users. Basically in layman's terms I'm trying say is, selling/providing a product to an end user/customer claiming that the end user/customer has full control over their product, when in reality its up to the bigger corporations discretion's on how the end user/customer is allowed to use their products. So why is it that i feel, that the big tech companies have separate laws and regulations, to any other type of non tech companies? Examples of what i mean; 1. The Facebook Debacle. After watching that 1hr+ length video watching the leaders of the USA question Mark Zuckerberg, I felt in a way that I knew what the leaders were trying to say, but couldn't pick the right wording to ask the correct questions. Now Mark Zuckerberg knew that going into the court hearing, because the people that he was going to have to answer to, were too old to truly understand online technology, which is why he is getting away with it. But if there was someone in the higher courts that understood technology, i highly doubt that courts would of been so clueless and would of torn him to shreds. 2. The Apple Vs. LTT Debacle After watching Linus's vid and then watching other POV's from other IT Youtube Channels, not one of them touched on the main problem that i see with other big major tech companies today, not just Apple. Now im still amazed how governments are allowing Apple to get away with this none sense, so lets compare this example to a non-tech company. Lets say a car manufacturer sold you a car and you drove the car on a weekend get-away and suddenly there was a problem, now you are stranded so you pop up the hood and noticed the car over heated, so you managed to find water and fill it up and you managed just to get home. The next day you take it to a manufacturers dealership so you could get it fixed, the mechanic at the dealership notices that you opened up the radiator cap and you put water in it, so he relays this info to the cars head office and then they refuse to send the parts to fix the car, on the grounds that the owner touched his vehicle. So now your only option is to take it to self-employed mechanic, but the problem is he cannot fix it as the only way to fix it is to use genuine parts, but the car manufacture doesn't give parts to anyone only to their own dealerships. Now the customer cannot get his car repaired because of the policy of the manufacture, they will only repair things if the customer doesn't touch anything. So now what is the customer supposed to do? I wonder how long this car manufacturer would be able to operate in the same country if the government found out that the car manufacturer was selling cars, but had this policy that they can refuse repairs because the manufacturer had a policy that would allow them to refuse repairs, because the customer touched something. 3. My Google Pay Debacle I just activated a new bank card, from my bank. So i went down to the shops to buy some stuff, when i got to the check out my card wouldn't work, so i knew i could do "Tap & Go" from my banks app from my phone. Now try and imagine this, your standing at the register holding up the queue and your trying to setup this "Tap & Go" function on your mobile, cause your bank card wouldn't work, but Google Pay keeps friggin popping up, quite similar to bloat ware. At this time i was just hitting accept, accept, accept and figured ill do anything right now just to pay for my shopping and fix everything when i get home. I managed to somehow do something and got my "Tap & Pay" to work, paid for my shopping and went home. When I got home and received an email from Google, welcoming and thanking me for signing up and creating an account with Google Pay, i didn't want this feature so i read through the email trying to find a way on how to disable and get rid of my info, as i don't like having 3rd parties managing my private details. Funny enough, there was absolutely nothing in the email showing me or allowing me to deny this service, the email had a billion of other links to everything else but not one single link to steps showing me how to deny/deactivate this service. So i contacted Google through a live chat, i told the person to whom i was speaking to the problem and there answer was to uninstall or disable the app and that will get rid of my info. After that i was like hmm, this person has no idea how technology works. Any how I'm not going to deep into this as i have attached the full convo in a text file to this post if you would like to read the full session. But after reading this you will notice that i had more of an idea on how their stuff worked, then their Live Support Chat person, plus their so called Specialist that i spoke with. If you have managed to read all of those 3 examples that i have listed, then answer this question, What do they all have in common? Do you see it? If you guessed ownership, then you are correct. Some how these big corporations have found these loop holes to exploit, and because the leaders of today, aren't up to par on how technology exactly works, its the main reason how these tech companies are getting away with this bullshit. Like i mentioned before in example 2 about a car manufacturer using the same principals as what Apple uses, I don't understand how other non-tech companies aren't allowed to have these same policies that bigger tech companies have and still be in business. Not only that i remember way back as far as WinXP when you installed software most of the default settings were set to 0 and if you wanted the added features or functions the owner would have to select them, but now these days when you install software or an app, they default every features or functions to "ON" and expect the user to disable everything. Now the problem here is that the big corporation know that a NEW user isn't going to know where or how to disable all these functions unless they are willing to spend hours trying to workout where they have hidden these options in the settings area. Now from what i can tell, that the leaders in that FB debacle were trying to say to Mark Zuckerberg, why cant you by default disable all these functions and allow the user to enable the functions, instead of enabling all the functions by default and expecting the end user to disable them. But of course the leaders didn't understand how tech works therefore couldn't ask the right questions, hence the reason why Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook company will get away with it. I wonder how long governments would allow car manufactures, washing machine manufacturers, fridge manufacturers etc... stay in business if they all had the same bullshit going on like all these tech companies are getting away with? hmm, sorry we not going to sell you the parts needed, just because you touched it, ya right, wonder how long that would slide with the government. Sure come buy our a products, but you don't fully own them, cause if something goes wrong we are going to provide 0 service, just because you touched it! So what it is i am saying is that if i own a product, then its at my discretion on where i get it repaired, sure if i use an un-certified business or i use a certified business, answer is still the same, a company builds and supplies products to the consumers, then they must be able to supply repairable parts also or then the company isn't allowed to operate, its that simple. The reason for this post is to A) Find out if I'm the only one that sees this problem. and B) how do we fix this or should i say swing the turn table to the end users/customers side and let us decide on what we like to do with our own products. I would really like to hear what most of think or your opinions on this matter. As i just don't understand it, what makes these big tech corporations any different then another non-tech corporations and why they don't have to follow the same rules and regulations as the non tech corporations. Cheers, Me and Google Support.txt

@Soulsreaper @Paul Vreeland @Arttu89 @asus killer I dont know how to say this without offending yo guys, but you were all wrong. Video showing how bad it was (kindof) --> youtube Here is a screenshot i done to compare, tried to get it close as possible to get in the exact same place. LEFT side after reformat ---- RIGHT side before reformat Now here are screenshots showing you CPU down GPU up Game plus other apps/software open as well... Here is another one with only game open... So, now explain to me then how can this be, hmm? And i havent even touched or modified the M.Soft Xbox GameDVR files, so im loading that plus NVidia GeoForce and STILL getting the massive performance boost. CPU dont kind of go over 50% now and the GPU @100% and i have now the performance back to normal. If what you all said was true, then i wouldnt been able to get these results. Thats exactly what i did. I figured that because i upgraded to win10 1501 vers. when it first come out, when i was on win7 and the edition of win10 went and had to major updates, the anniversary and creators fall packages, plus going from vers.1501 to vers.1709, i figured i might as well and see what happens. Well what do you know things are back to normal now. Its really hard to tell exactly who do i point the finger at, NVidia? Microsoft? or game developers? At the end of the day things are running normal like they were and thats all that matters now. Thanks all that helped as i do appreciate it alot!!! Cheers.

Oh ok, ya i misunderstood you totally..... Well i have a support ticket open with them atm, but i dont think they are gonna be able to help as they arent the sharpest tool in the shed, if ya know wat i mean! When i pm'd a GM Tech guy showing him that vid that i posted in my OP, he confirmed to me that they forced the players based pc's to use specs that they feel that the game runs well at, and what i was doing was unlocking/braking the system by doing that method that i was doing whilst loading the game. He basically told me that i was telling the game to use my GPU power instead of CPU power. What i was hoping by coming here was perhaps finding someone that new how to do the same hack but through the registry or game files instead of me trying to do it with the games loading screen settings. But all everyones conclusions are "Oh, its ur CPU bottlenecking" when i know that isnt the problem. When i can finally get it to run right ill come back here and show everyone that its not my CPU bottlenecking thats causing this issue. I have had my pc for almost 4+yrs and been playing the game for since release of feb 2016, so i would know if there was a problem with bottlenecking. Its just they program their game somehow to throttle or bottleneck my pc, i just got to find a way to disarm it like i did before. I just got to get the game to follow my GPU settings instead of my CPU settings. I have tested this with other games that i have installed, ill go and play around with NVidia CP settings and it changes the behavior inside the game, but the only game that DOESNT change in behavior is BDO. So this is telling me that somehow they have added some type of coding to ignore the NVidia CP settings, cause no matter what settings i change or alter it has no effect to the game at all. Here is part of the convo from that GM admitting it about what i said. Hey again,I do understand that, it is indeed possible to get out of the "FPS lock", although this is not something we suggest. While it is true that the engine might have behaved differently in the past, continuous updates are being applied that may change, remove, or alter previously present functions.While opening the possibility of tweaking everything in the game engine sounds very intriguing at first, unfortunately it is not a viable vision, as most of the settings are hard coded in for stability reasons.

You missed this part... When i can get my game to work correctly my PC runs at around 35% CPU usage and 100% GPU usage. After latest patch notes. When it doesnt run right (what its doing now, not running correctly) my CPU runs @80% maxing out @100% The latest patch has changed something on how it runs, modifying or even changing settings through the NVidia CP does nothing to the game, so this is telling me that when the game loads it ignoring my NVidia CP settings, therefore not using my proper GPU settings that i have setup to run that game. I can understand where you're coming from, but thats only relevant if you are playing the game for the very first time and its always running like that. But because my problem is after their latest patch notes and these patch notes included fiddling and modifying the games system settings and the UI, im guessing its done something to cause my PC to ignore my GPU settings when playing the game.

im not having that issue. my temps are fine and the CPU isnt the bottleneck, cause if it was it would be happening all the time if that were the case.

Hi All, I have the weirdest problem that i cant get anyone from the Microsoft, NVidia and my game Dev. Team to solve. I had once found a bandaid solution but after my games latest patch notes they have changed the games settings and UI so i cant use my hack anymore, which has now made me resort to coming here and see if there is any tech guy around that explain and solve this phenomenon. Problem. The game that im playing Black Desert Online isnt, doesnt or wont use my GPU power to the fullest potential. When i can get my game to work correctly my PC runs at around 35% CPU usage and 100% GPU usage. When it doesnt run right (what its doing now, not running correctly) my CPU runs @80% maxing out @100% which causes game freeze or FPS drops as far as 5FPS to 30FPS, whilst my GPU power wont go past 70% usage. BTW these figures are coming from task manager. So can someone please answer these 2 questions for me; 1. How in the hell can force my game to use my GPU power instead of CPU? 2. Explain to me how does the PC system balance CPU power and GPU power? My Theory My PC specs, Gigabyte H170 Gaming 3 DDR4 Vers. Gigabyte GTX 960 4GB Vers. These prob dont matter but ill list them anyways, Intel i5-6600k 3.50GHz 2 x 16GB HyperX Kingston RAM What i am noticing is that my launchpad is hanging now, which it never did before this problem arose, and whilst looking at Task Manager - Performance Graph, i noticed that as soon as the launcher comes up my GPU switches on, then switches off like a sec or 2 later, then while im getting inside the game there are a few segments in the GPU graph that the GPU is or wants to turn on, but its switching off or seems something is forcing it to throttle. When im inside the game playing, my GPU wont go past 76% usage, very rare i even see it go past 80%. I had this exact same problem before with the game, my bandaid solution for it in the past was to load the game, go into settings select windowed mode hit save, then go back in and select fullscreen and untick a box called "Load Optimization Mode" hit save, then load up the game. This is what i was doing to get the game to work properly, but now after their latest patch they have changed the UI and i tried to do the same hack but its not working anymore. I found the vid i did to show their support team YouTube Vid! Here is what im thinking is happening, because there are 2 versions of my mobo and gpu, the game and or my OS is detecting my hardware and throttling both hardware, or perhaps more so my GPU. As with my mobo, there are 2 types of H170 a DDR3 and DDR4 vers. And with my gpu the same thing 2 GTX 960 gpu's a 2gb and a 4gb. Well i have gotten the DDR4 mobo and the 4gb gpu and im thinking that my system is calibrating itself or telling the game that to use the lower settings to suite my hardware. OR The game itself is not just allowing it to use the full gpu power, which is what im actually thinking, that is why im here on the hopes that someone might know how to force the game to use my gpu power as the NVidia CP seems to have zero effect towards my games settings. Before i go i thought i would list of things that i have tried doing. - Disabled all of microsoft gaming HUD crap, through settings and registry, so GameDVR is fully disabled. - Tried manipulating and changing all the settings through the NVidia CP - Tried Re-Hacking the game to get it to unlock the GPU power, like i had previously but to no avail. - I also reinstalled the game from a fresh install. Anyhow i cant figure the fucking shit out and im really hoping that someone around here can solve this problem for me. Im willing to skype, discord or anything if need be if it will make it easier. Just please help!!! Thanks in advance. Forgotten info Here are my NVidia CP settings; Ambient Occlusion --- Not support for this application Anisotropic Filtering --- 4x Antialasing - FXAA --- Use global setting (OFF) Antialasing - Gamma correction --- Use global setting (ON) Antialising - Mode --- Enhance the Application Setting Antialising - Setting --- 4x Antialising - Transparency --- Multisample (for performance) OR 2x (supersample) (this is for quality) ---> I personally chose the Multisample option CUDA - GPUs --- Use global setting (ALL) Maximum pre-rendered frames --- 3 Multi-Frame Sampled AA (MFAA) --- Use global settings (OFF) OpenGL rendering GPU --- Use global setting (Auto-select) Optimise for Compute Performance --- Use global setting (OFF) Power Management Mode --- Prefer Maximum Performance Shader Cache --- Off Texture Filtering - Anisotropic Sample Optimisation --- Off Texture Filtering - Negative LOD Bias --- Clamp Texture Filtering - Quality --- High Performance Texture Filtering - Trilinear Optimisation --- On Threaded optimisation --- Use global setting (Auto) Triple Buffing --- On Vertical Sync --- Off Virtual Reality pre-rendered frames --- Use global setting (1)

Yeah i see that now, but its kind of confusing tho to someone like me that isnt electrical minded.

Yeah, they are just using from what im understanding a chip to make things move/flash the pixels quicker on the screen.

Oh ok. Yeah, but it does explain to me now how it works, cause i couldnt wrap my head around the fact of getting X amount of power and making it 2xX amount of power, without using something, i was just curious to what that "SOMETHING" was. Cause i was a car/truck car mechanic and people think that its the battery that runs their engine when in fact its the "ALTERNATOR" that actually runs the engine not the battery. So i was waiting for someone to say "THIS" is how its doing it, because they are using a 555 chip. I know the that there not probably using a 555 chip, but its putting it in perspective for me on "HOW" and "WHAT" it is that they are using to do it.