ASUS GPU Tweak utility.

[jojo]

Anyone know anything about the Tweak Utility?

My new GPU card is working fine, except, every so often, I get the screen freezing momentarily. I assume this is a problem with the Frame rate, which can be sorted by the Utility, but would appreciate some advice.

The available presets and my default settings:

GPU Boost Clock 1072

Max GPU Voltage mV 1200

Memory Clock MHz 6008

Power Target% 100

GPU Temp Target C 80

Fan Speed % 29 (Set to Auto)

Frame Rate Target (FPS) 0

Display Refresh Rate Hz 60

If anyone has any information on these settings. Will appreciate that especially.

Or even a source with some information.

[mikkh]

I wouldn't bother, you bought the OC (factory overclocked) version of the card if I remember correctly - so it's basically already been tweaked. Only mildly, but tweaked nonetheless
Seems to me like you probably got a bottleneck somewhere, you would assume its not the SSD, but they vary enormously from drive to drive and the technology is not really catered for in earlier versions of Windows

www.maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-must-do-when-running-a-solid-state-drive-in-windows-7/


If you look at that link item 6 deals with the paging file, but shows a picture of visual effects performance options which I would definitely change to 'adjust for best performance' which basically un-ticks everything and leaves Windows looking very basic. If you re-tick the bottom two, Windows looks more normal but it stops a lot of unnecessary eye candy you don't really need.

Similarly in the Nvidia driver settings (in control panel), you have the choice between performance and quality in the manage 3D settings - look at texture filtering first and set that to performance

You can either do this globally for everything or for individual programs.

There are lots of other tweaks in there you could try before using a third party GPU tweaker.

NB Things you *must* do should be treated cautiously in any article like this. I'm not saying he's wrong, but some of those are optional/debatable and should be in the category could rather than must.

[jojo]

Thanks so much mikkh.

I kinda figured this was beyond my capabilities and when I did a search, though many referred to the settings being there, none said what they did exactly. One of the biggest issues I found is the huge number of versions of that product. Each is a little different, extra facilities in some, something taken out in another. It seemed strange that I would be given the software with the card, yet no information on what to do with it.

I will definitely take look at those points. But shortly after I posted the above, I found a post on the frontier forum which was complaining of exactly that problem after the latest update. Being in Beta, updates can come several times a day sometimes. I do hope that poster understood when I responded that I was pleased he was having that problem!!

One of the frustrations with the Frontier forums is they are filled with so much chatter that is irrelevant. Takes ages finding anything useful.

But I have to remind myself that everyone is not as perfect as I seem to think I am!

[jojo]

Thanks loads mikkh. Those tweaks worked perfectly. Smooth as silk now.

[mikkh]

Good, glad it worked, but I didn't realise you'd used the driver CD supplied with the card, because that's something I never do.
Well not since the old dial-up days anyway when downloading anything over 10 MB was painful. When unpacking a new card I just throw the driver CD away because it's pretty much guaranteed to be out of date and a graphics card is one of the few things that you should keep up to date to improve performance. I head straight to the manufacturers site and get the latest driver instead.

You're in a 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' situation at the moment though, but it's something to remember for the future.

[jojo]

I will and to be honest, I wouldn't normally use a driver cd if it were possible to download the latest. I did this time because I didn't want to tempt fate.

I feel a lot more confident now. This card seem to be reliable and stable.

Sometime in the future, if I'm having a clean out, I may remove all the installed stuff and reinstall direct from the net.

[jojo]

Removed and reinstalled the driver this morning. Pleased to say things are going spiffing!