Downclocking?

[Tilaron]

Hi all, I have been trouble-shooting my performance issues in HotS with a blizzard employee and he's suggested I downclock my card (inno3d iChill 960GTX 2GB) to the reference speeds. Unfortunately using both MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision X I haven't been able to figure out how to downclock further than around 90MHz or even touch the boost.

 

For reference my card is at 1329MHz with a boost to 1393MHz, a reference 960 is 1127MHz, boost of 1178MHz

 

So with either of those programs can I actually do this? If not, how screwed am I?

 

I seriously doubt it will even make a difference to my problem, but if I can say "Done that" maybe I'll get further along the support line...

 

 

Edit: I suppose I should add that I've pretty much never overclocked/downclocked anything before, never needed to, so if I need to do something in the bios to make this happen I'll need detailed instructions to overcome my dumbness.

[vetali]

If it doesn't happen in other games then there is no reason to downclock imo. But both those programs should let you lock your clocks to what you want. 

[D2ultima]

Downclocking shouldn't be required to "fix" a game... I wonder what that blizzard employee is thinking.

[momona5]

Downclocking shouldn't be required to "fix" a game... I wonder what that blizzard employee is thinking.

I agree, no reason you should have to cut performance to play a game. This isn't the emotion engine.

[D2ultima]

I agree, no reason you should have to cut performance to play a game. This isn't the emotion engine.

Not only that, with a vBIOS-set higher clockspeed, your "basic" speed is what that clockspeed is. For example, my 780M's base speed is 773MHz. I have a modded vBIOS that sets that to 850MHz. What, do I need to change my vBIOS to play a game? >_>

[Tilaron]

Yeah, well, if I can just genuinely tell him I've done it maybe we can move on to him actually solving the problem... however unlikely that is at this point.

 

I have tried and tried in both programs to downclock, manually putting in -whateverthehell but it resets to -90

 

I'm on the verge of throwing feces at the wall giving up