Setting the graphics card to Maximum Performance

Hey guys,

I bought a new monitor a few days ago. It's running at 1900 x 1080 resolution, it caused a noticeable FPS drop in some games compared to my old 1280 x 1024 monitor. Especially in Skyrim, it caused a lot of sudden FPS drops that persist for a few seconds and stuttering.

So in the Nvidia control panel, I went into Power Management settings for the particular program (TESV.exe) and switched it to Maximum Performance from Adaptive, as well as giving the program the highest priority in the Task Manager, and the problem seems to be largely solved with a steady framerate around 60 FPS.

The question is, would this cause any issues/problems for my GTX 570 in the long run? The card should have switched to this performance level, but some reason it doesn't, I guess. The temperature in MSI Afterburner did not exceed 66c, which is around what would normally be with the Adaptive setting, but I'm still worried if setting the card to the maximum clock speed etc. would cause any problems other than the temperature. If not I will use this same approach for other GPU-intensive games with stuttering and lag too.

Thanks.

Hey guys,

I bought a new monitor a few days ago. It's running at 1900 x 1080 resolution, it caused a noticeable FPS drop in some games compared to my old 1280 x 1024 monitor. Especially in Skyrim, it caused a lot of sudden FPS drops that persist for a few seconds and stuttering.

So in the Nvidia control panel, I went into Power Management settings for the particular program (TESV.exe) and switched it to Maximum Performance from Adaptive, as well as giving the program the highest priority in the Task Manager, and the problem seems to be largely solved with a steady framerate around 60 FPS.

The question is, would this cause any issues/problems for my GTX 570 in the long run? The card should have switched to this performance level, but some reason it doesn't, I guess. The temperature in MSI Afterburner did not exceed 66c, which is around what would normally be with the Adaptive setting, but I'm still worried if setting the card to the maximum clock speed etc. would cause any problems other than the temperature. If not I will use this same approach for other GPU-intensive games with stuttering and lag too.

Thanks.

Athawolfus

Thanks. Yeah, it appears to be safe.

It's fine, the setting is safe.

But when adaptive performance isn't workign correclty there is usually a driver issue or an incompatability with a game or a particular game setting. Make sure you are runnign the latest drivers. Is this issue for a specific game, or where all your games suffering from performance issue?

I recall having the same issue with SKyrim, but that was before Bethesda patched up the CPU optimization, and after an nvidia update.