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Try opening Device Manager, disable the card, and then enable it again.

 

Also try going into Nvidia settings -> Power management -> change from Adaptive to Maximum.

 

Let me know if it works.

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So, I'm having troubles with my gtx 960m, i was overclocking it since 2016, but recently i did a clean reinstall of windows, and now the gpu core clock tops out at 540MHz making GTA V, one of my favorite games, unplayable. I've tried changing drivers to older ones and it didn't work. any help is appreciated

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update the driver

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Try opening Device Manager, disable the card, and then enable it again.

 

Also try going into Nvidia settings -> Power management -> change from Adaptive to Maximum.

 

Let me know if it works.

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Check clocks in GPU-Z instead of Afterburner. There's an issue with RivaTuner and mobile GPUs I think.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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reduce the overclock and reboot, if you push the OC too far it is not uncommon that the card will end up running on a small clock to prevent damages, when I was OCing mine the first time it also end up crashing and it would not go higher than 590mhz core clock, had to reduce the OC apply and reboot so it would work fine again.

 

You should also set power management to high performance.

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You may have installed the wrong Nvidia Geforce Experience. This happened with me when I installed Windows 10. The Windows 10 Update automatically installed Geforce Experience and a week later I found out that it was the wrong Geforce Experience or something was wrong with my current Geforce Experience.

 

I installed Java so the website could automatically find the right Geforce Experience for me and then I used CUSTOM installation - Do a fresh install, instead of using express installation and then I was fine.

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I was on the latest driver when the problem happened, the device manager trick didn't work, I first noticed because GTA 5 was running so slow in the first place, it wasn't overclocked when I screenshot it, that's the GeForce experience that came with the driver there's no way it's wrong.

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13 hours ago, alca said:

Try opening Device Manager, disable the card, and then enable it again.

 

Also try going into Nvidia settings -> Power management -> change from Adaptive to Maximum.

 

Let me know if it works.

thanks alca... apparently it was the power management....

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