GTX260 stuck in high-performance 3d mode

[frombauer]

I have an eVGA GTX260 with the newest drivers, and running rivatuner it appears the card is not lowering its clocks when in 2d mode (300MHz core or so), like it used to. Stays constantly at 626MHz (mine is factory OC'ed).

Anyone experienced this?

 

[AzN]

reboot your pc

 

[OCGuy]

It could be a background task that is keeping it in 3dclocks.

 

[lopri]

Any application profiled in ForceWare Control Panel can be a suspect to raise clock speed. Uncheck the hide option (the list is not accurate), and compare the list of apps with the processes running on your system. And even apps that are not profiled can trigger 3D clock frequency. If you have any virtualization app running that will naturally cause GPU to run at full speed as well.

 

[frombauer]

Thanks guys, unfortunately nothing helped. Very strange, I think I'll roll back to the previous driver version to see if it does anything.

 

[fleshconsumed]

I made a thread about it when I got my 260. Basically, two things will keep your card in 3D mode. One is running dual monitors, two, certain applications like "windows remote desktop" will also kick the card into 3D mode.

You can manually create custom profiles with rivatuner, create shortcuts to them on desktop and manually execute them. However, all you can adjust is GPU and memory frequencies, you cannot adjust voltage. So while your temps will go down, they will only go down by a couple of degrees at the most.

 

[frombauer]

Originally posted by: fleshconsumed
I made a thread about it when I got my 260. Basically, two things will keep your card in 3D mode. One is running dual monitors, two, certain applications like "windows remote desktop" will also kick the card into 3D mode.

You can manually create custom profiles with rivatuner, create shortcuts to them on desktop and manually execute them. However, all you can adjust is GPU and memory frequencies, you cannot adjust voltage. So while your temps will go down, they will only go down by a couple of degrees at the most.

You nailed it, buddy. I have a LCD TV that I use as a second monitor to watch movies, etc. Even when the TV is off I usually keep the monitor activated in Windows to save time. Disabling it immediately forced the card back to low power mode.

Thanks!