GTX 660 ti and Assassins Creed 1

So has anyone had any problems of the sort at all? Could be graphics settings in the Nvidia control panel?

Are you enabling vsync in the nvidia control panel or in the game its self. And 74C is perfectly fine for a graphics card. Thats nothing to be worried about.

I understand that 74C is normal for a GPU, but in such rate of increase in temperature is what was scaring me. My main concern isn't the temperature, anyway.

For AC1 I have enabled vsync and while in game the frame rate maintains ~60fps like it is supposed to. Whenever I switch over to the desktop and AC1 is running in the background, the Precision X program is showing frame rates increasing dramatically as well as a maxed out gpu clock, obviously, increasing the temperature. When I switch back to make the game active, the frame rate returns to ~60fps and everything is fine. I'm using global settings in the Nvidia control panel and the vsync is set to "Use the 3D application setting." However, I have changed global setting for vsync to see if this background problem would stop to no avail.

I have tested this method on Borderlands 2 as well as Crysis 2 and when I switch to desktop and leave the games in the background, the GPU goes to an idle state and doesn't ramp up the GPU clock. I'm just curious to know why such thing would happen and if there is a fix.

I've tested it about an hour ago on Assassin'c creed and it did the same thing to me. I dont use vsync so I've never known about the problem until now. I've tried to do some research but I havent found any other people having this problem. It is kinda weird though, as every other game works fine when I tried it. Have you tried just setting the max fps in Precision ?

I have and it just stays doing whatever it feels like doing. I guess its just a bug in the software. The GTX 660ti isn't supported anyway.

Hmm well you can try to just force it into windowed mode, so you dont have to alt+tab out.

I think its only when you put AC into the background and don't have it as an active window. I tried doing that and it still did the same thing. I'm just glad I'm not the only one with the same problem.  

It looks like it should be a great game. My buddy finally got me to play it and I found the Ultimate pack which consists of AC 1 and 2 for 10$. I'm starting out from the beginning!

Thanks for your input on my problem!

Best answer selected by jrmurph3.

No problem, any time. Have fun!