![]() If you’re on a notebook, you’ll definitely want to make sure “Optimal power”, or at least “Adaptive” is selected in the global settings. You can then use “Prefer maximum performance” for only those titles. For demanding games that don’t play well with Optimal Power or Adaptive, find (or create) the required profile in the “Program Settings” tab of the “Manage 3D settings” page. The NVIDIA Control Panel allows you to configure profiles for games on a case-by-case basis. Unfortunately, this will increase the “idle” heat and power draw of your GPU, even when you’re not doing anything. Now, it’s tempting to hit up the driver’s global settings and set the power management mode to the aforementioned value and never think about it again. As the name suggests, this setting will run your card at its maximum clocks all the time. Newer NVIDIA cards feature several more options, such as “NVIDIA driver-controlled” and “Prefer consistent performance”, but the only other choice you need to worry about is “Prefer maximum performance”. However, Optimal Power adds another feature - it’ll stop the GPU rendering a new frame if nothing has changed on screen and instead reuse what’s already in the framebuffer. Both options will modulate the core and memory clock speeds and voltage of your GPU, increasing them during times of load and decreasing them when demand is low. Optimal power superseded the previous default, called “Adaptive”. This setting was introduced into the company’s video drivers with the GTX 1080, specifically version 368.22 release in May 2016. I'm only suggesting another form of automation working with the same set of profiles.By default, NVIDIA sets the power management mode of your GPU (be it in card or laptop form) to “Optimal power”. ![]() This is automation of what would otherwise be a PITA if working manually with profiles. Take for example the import/export profiles feature. If Inspector was just a mirror of the Nvidia Control Panel with all the same features and no more, it would be completely pointless. I've no idea what your second point means, to suggest that Inspector can't have more features added because it just hooks into existing profiles makes no sense. I've found it saves me time to just set every game to "Prefer Max Performance" before I even play because I know if I don't, at some point I'm going to be quitting and restarting the game just to change that setting anyway. The adaptive power scheme is reactive by its very nature and for me, it's too slow at it. Personally, I would find the ability to change specific options for every profile except Global a very useful feature and in my experience I more often than not notice hitching or stutter in games where GPU usage fluctuates a lot. If you say you don't notice the problems associated with adaptive/optimal power and therefore don't have any interest in such a feature then I'm not going to try and suggest your usage case is overkill or unnecessary, just different to mine. The options you say you spend lots of time changing, I never touch but that's just a usage case different to mine, its just as valid though. I disagree but I guess that's user opinion for you and a product of different use cases for different users.
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