GPU clocks are always at minimum

[TheOvergrownLoli]

Sooooo ye, i dont really know anything about computers but yesterday something happened to my laptop and I need help. After i turned it on and started up a game, I realised that i dropped from stable 60 fps to unstable 20, which was super weird, and so I asked my friend what to do and he recomended me to instal HWMonitor just to check some things, and we found out that GPU clocks are always at minimal value. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it?

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

10 minutes ago, TheOvergrownLoli said:

we found out that GPU clocks are always at minimal value.

The image you posted contradicts this statement. The maximum clock speed in the picture is near 1500Mhz.

[GuiltySpark_]

If you're alt-tabbed out in that screenshot, it seems pretty normal to me. That last column is Max and that 1354MHz sounds about right for a 1050Ti. Throw that app on a secondary display and make sure your game is running in the foreground then look again. 

 

Also ditch HWMonitor and get HWInfo64 instead. Its significantly more accurate. 

[TheOvergrownLoli]

7 minutes ago, rickeo said:

If you're alt-tabbed out in that screenshot, it seems pretty normal to me. That last column is Max and that 1354MHz sounds about right for a 1050Ti. Throw that app on a secondary display and make sure your game is running in the foreground then look again. 

 

Also ditch HWMonitor and get HWInfo64 instead. Its significantly more accurate. 

The left collumn is current value, middle is min and right is possible max, or am i reding it wrong

[GuiltySpark_]

1 minute ago, TheOvergrownLoli said:

The left collumn is current value, middle is min and right is possible max, so the current is always at minimal (i took the screenshot during the game)

Incorrect. The right most column is max achieved since the program has been open. 

 

Additionally, if you alt-tabbed out of the game to take that screenshot, the Current dropped down to idle clocks hence 139Mhz. 

 

You need to have the game in the foreground and you playing it to get an accurate Current reading. 

 

Honestly I do all this with a permanent MSI Afterburner graph up on one of my displays so I can monitor clockspeed in realtime and even see the changes in the graph over time. 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

2 minutes ago, TheOvergrownLoli said:

right is possible max

No. Not "possible" max. It is the recorded max, meaning your card recently, since the software was started, achieved that clock speed.

3 minutes ago, TheOvergrownLoli said:

i took the screenshot during the game

No you did not. Your GPU usage is at 0% indicating that no game was currently running. The recent max was 45%, likely at the same time that the card was running at 1493Mhz.

[TheOvergrownLoli]

5 minutes ago, HairlessMonkeyBoy said:

No. Not "possible" max. It is the recorded max, meaning your card recently, since the software was started, achieved that clock speed.

No you did not. Your GPU usage is at 0% indicating that no game was currently running. The recent max was 45%, likely at the same time that the card was running at 1493Mhz.

You got me there i was too lazy to open the game to take the sceenshot, but ye earlier I was checking it with the game and current values were like that at minimum, and so to prove this I started up the game again and ... everything was normal, fps count was at 60 again and values on HMW were good, sooo i guess problem solved ... somehow idk what happend, btw i had simmilar issues in the past. I mean performance was far worse for few days or even weeks but I didnt care about it that much back then so I was just dealing with it

[herb]

Just now, TheOvergrownLoli said:

You got me there i was too lazy to open the game to take the sceenshot, but ye earlier I was checking it with the game and current values were like that at minimum, and so to prove this I started up the game again and ... everything was normal, fps count was at 60 again and values on HMW were good, sooo i guess problem solved ... somehow idk what happend, btw i had simmilar issues in the past. I mean performance was far worse for few days or even weeks but I didnt care about it that much back then so I was just dealing with it

how long were you running the game/ had the laptop turned on? if the laptop was progressively getting closer to the thermal limit it would make sense that it dropped to lower speeds.

[herb]

if you went back later and it was fine, its sounds like it got really hot and then it dropped speed to keep temps under control

[TheOvergrownLoli]

1 minute ago, herb said:

if you went back later and it was fine, its sounds like it got really hot and then it dropped speed to keep temps under control

I doubt it, i had it running for quite a long time ye but it was warking normally, and the problem occured the next mornig, after I turned it back on after 8h of not using it

[herb]

1 hour ago, TheOvergrownLoli said:

I doubt it, i had it running for quite a long time ye but it was warking normally, and the problem occured the next mornig, after I turned it back on after 8h of not using it

well see what happens, it could be a random intermittent issue.

 

nice spelling btw

[TheOvergrownLoli]

17 minutes ago, herb said:

well see what happens, it could be a random intermittent issue.

 

nice spelling btw

I'm dyslectic, i dont have time to check every word, also im not a native english speaker soooo ye