Captain_Amazing said:
maxalge said:
install msi afterburner and create custom 2d profile.
The easiest way is to copy the low power settings and slowly increase core/ram speeds in afterburner till the problem goes away.
That's a good work-around. I'm doing something similar by using Nvidia Inspector to stop the card from dropping back into p8 state (the lowest power) and stay in p5 state (medium-low power) where the problem is considerably lessened. The only problem is that I have to switch back to automatic p-state setting when playing games (or it stays in p5 and only uses about 40% of the card's capacity) and if the game has non-3D menu/inventory screens (Witcher 2) the card drops back to p8 on those screens and the flickering comes back, making the inventory screens unusable.
Does the Afterburner custom 2D setting still allow the card to ramp up to full speed when needed and only drop back to my prescribed settings when needed? In other words, will it fix the Witcher problem I just described?
I look forward to your answer.
Yes.
afterburner allows you to set custom 2d and 3d profiles.
So before playing witcher set a custom 2d profile that is high enough core/memory wise to prevent flickerin in the menu.
After you finish gaming you can set the 2d profile to another lower power customized profile saved for that.
You can save up to 5 custom profiles, and make any of them as the 2d or 3d setting.
You could have
a low core/mem voltage setting for 2d that is still high enough to prevent flicker in games.
a high overclocked 3d performance setting.
and another 2d setting for normal desktop use.
Afterburner automatically switches states itself as needed between 2d and 3d mode.
All you would need to do is set the gaming 2d profile before gaming and then after switch back to the normal power saving 2d settings if you wished to have the card run cooler while you do desktop stuff.