Problem with 1070; sometime very very slow

[you2]

Sometimes after a reboot games are incredibly slow (few fps rather than 50 to 100 fps). I've tried enable/disable the 1070 graphic driver (in device manager) and that doesn't fix the issue. The only fix I've found is to reboot. Is this a known issue and can someone describe what is happening and a possible fix without reboot ?
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I run windows 7 64 and upgrading to window 10 is not an option.

 

[daveybrat]

Which exact model is the 1070? What power supply are you using?

 

[you2]

I have a seasonic 600 psu and a zotac 1070.

 

[Bouowmx]

Nvidia Inspector: http://orbmu2k.de/tools/nvidia-inspector-tool

Your issue sounds like a driver crash locked out GPU from maximum power state (denoted in Nvidia Inspector by P-state = P0), and the only solution is restart.

 

[you2]

Is this a hardware issue; race condition on boot up; ??

 

[Bouowmx]

Is this a hardware issue; race condition on boot up; ??

For me, the most likely cause of a driver crash is too aggressive of overclock, and then running a compute or game app. Reduce overclock.

 

[you2]

I'm not overclocking. Perhaps underclock ? It only happens on startup; a reboot fixes the issue and it doesn't reoccur until i boot up again (it does not happen on every boot up)

 

[VirtualLarry]

This was happening to some of our DC'ers during the F@H Race in Dec. Some people observed that using Firefox, and closing it, was a possible cause of NVidia GPUs being stuck in a lower-powered state.

 

[you2]

not running firefox; how do i check if this is the acutal probelm ?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

not running firefox; how do i check if this is the acutal probelm ?

Perhaps begin again by doing a clean installation of the drivers. Check "Custom" versus "Express," and then check the box for "Clean install."

This symptom arises from at least a few causes, and I'd tried to ferret them out before, resolving the situation hit-or-miss, but usually, uninstallation and reinstallation of (a) overclocking program like Afterburner, Precision or Asus Tweak, and clean installation of drivers.

First, reinstall the driver, then install your tweaking and monitoring program. [Wait -- check end of this post . . . ]

Another thing that stymied me and probably stymies others -- the opposite of the OP's problem. You find that your card is running one P-state below full-throttle -- maybe two -- with memory stuck at, say, 4,000 (8000 DDR/dual-channel). Temperatures in low to mid-40's C, 40% power-consumption instead of 10%.

I was going to explain what might cause that, but it doesn't address the OP's situation. Anyway -- check all the sys-tray and other running programs, and see if IE browser is open-minimized. Different programs will boost the graphics clock, when they're not doing much of anything.

With this other thing, go through the un-&-re-installs. Make sure the tweaker program is set to the card's default. Review your [gear-wheel] settings dialog for some mistaken setting. Save to a profile or leave those settings active.

DO THE tweaker "uninstall" after setting the GFX back to default. THEN, install the NVidia driver, and then -- install the tweaker program. If you overclock, make sure you're resurrecting your preferred setting at boot-time -- there's usually a button or checkbox for that.

This may not help, but as I said -- I had the opposite problem and identified multiple causes simultaneously creating the problem or even one at a time.

When you put 2x SLI into the mix, it's marginally more difficult to troubleshoot, but I beat that, too.

 

[you2]

I contacted the vendor and they said it was due to micron memory and sent me a bios update. Too soon to tell if that solved the problem as it was intermittent but I thought the micron memory only impacted artifcating not this miserably slow issue ?