- Feb 13, 2012
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For some reason my GTX 680m 4GB (MSI) in my GT70 0NE with a 3610QM overclocked to 3.3GHz (3.5GHz 1 core) refuses to run at 100% GPU usage. No matter what game I play, the GPU usage seems to hang around 20% GPU usage. That's about 15FPS in BF4, 20FPS in mechwarrior online, 20FPS in Smite, and 30FPS in L4D2 for a few examples. Sometimes the GPU usage spikes to 99% and I get an easy 60FPS minimum for a second but then it goes back down to laggy, delayed and especially un-enjoyable gameplay. In Nvidia CP, I've set it to "prefer maximum performance" and I've tried MSI's default "Gaming" power profile which didn't work and then I tried tweaking it so that the PCI power link power management settings to off, so that there are no power limitation. Still, my 680m 4GB seems to not want to run properly. It's very frustrating. I'm running plugged in. The battery can't support gaming unless I underclock my 680m severely to about 400/800MHz which should still perform better than it is now at 20% GPU usage. I've tried flashing the BIOS to a version that allows better overclocking which has helped a little, but still having problems. My temperatures never pass 65c due to low GPU usage. Furmark however uses 100% of my GPU and will heat up to 86c running 980/2550 (5.1Gbps). Do you think that using much older drivers (CD comes with 302.xx) would help? BF4 says it's recommended to use 331 or I might experience data corruption or artifacting etc. I'll try that and update right now, however any help while doing that is very much appreciated. I'll report back once I update drivers. I made a thread earlier with this same issue. Doing a clean installation was a temporary fix, however they returned. What do?
TL;DR: Low GPU usage. Tried many things. Any suggestions?
TL;DR: Low GPU usage. Tried many things. Any suggestions?
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