Afterburner not saving changes

Stale Sweetroll · April 25, 2016

I was trying to see if I could get a higher overclock on my 980 Ti today while running Heaven benchmark. Unfortunately this caused a driver crash, which recovered pretty quickly but rendered Afterburner useless until I restarted. At this point, I couldn't lower the memory clock anymore. Core clock was fine, but the only way I could undo the memory overclock was to uninstall my driver and Afterburner and reinstall both. Now I'm back to the base memory clock speed, and when I try and set the OC to my original stable speed, it does the same crap where it won't save my changes. If I hit apply, it will go from +300 to +0.

This is a fresh install of both the driver and the software, so I don't really know how to proceed here. I'd really appreciate some help!

Moonzy · April 25, 2016

when your driver crash, sometimes the gpu will lock itself at a certain clock speed

a normal reboot of your computer will fix this, though you may need to re-install drivers sometimes

i suggest uninstalling your current driver using DDU and install an older driver like 361.91 instead of 364.xx drivers unless you're playing the latest titles, then install the latest driver

Stale Sweetroll · April 26, 2016

4 hours ago, Moonzy said:

when your driver crash, sometimes the gpu will lock itself at a certain clock speed

a normal reboot of your computer will fix this, though you may need to re-install drivers sometimes

i suggest uninstalling your current driver using DDU and install an older driver like 361.91 instead of 364.xx drivers unless you're playing the latest titles, then install the latest driver

Thanks for the suggestion. I ran DDU in safe mode and did a completely fresh driver install, and this did seem to fix the issue initially. However, after that small window where it worked, it's now going back to doing the same thing where it resets to where I previously had it rather than letting me change it. It's not a big deal because more or less the memory clock is where I wanted it, but the problem is essentially still there if I ever want/need to adjust it again.

Moonzy · April 26, 2016

4 minutes ago, Stale Sweetroll said:

Thanks for the suggestion. I ran DDU in safe mode and did a completely fresh driver install, and this did seem to fix the issue initially. However, after that small window where it worked, it's now going back to doing the same thing where it resets to where I previously had it rather than letting me change it. It's not a big deal because more or less the memory clock is where I wanted it, but the problem is essentially still there if I ever want/need to adjust it again.

thats an odd issue and it shouldnt happen

but if it bothers you i guess you can ask me or other people here for other steps to take to try removing it