Adaptive Or High Performance.

[Mr Bigman]

I noticed this in new drivers.

I did some tests in crysis and seems about the same but its me.

Why does it exist now and will it **** up games?

From what i see it turns down the card when not gaming but temps in evga tool are the same on idle.

[j0j081]

weird that there is no dif in temps but maybe the fan is slowing down to.

[Lfctony]

I noticed this in new drivers.

I did some tests in crysis and seems about the same but its me.

Why does it exist now and will it **** up games?

From what i see it turns down the card when not gaming but temps in evga tool are the same on idle.

Adaptive will drop the clocks when the load on the card is low. Crysis is not exactly an easy game so its really not a good test. You want to test older, less demanding games...

[Mr Bigman]

This option could be a problem.

Im wondering if its tied to the issue i am having ain the above post.

The card would be changing all the time cuz of the adaptive setting so that could in return cause funny things to happen like stop the display adapter.

[Lfctony]

Mr Bigman, it's not a new feature. They are just giving the option to choose, now... This has been a feature since the 260/280s have come out...

[j0j081]

where exactly is this setting located? my bro just got a 260 but didn't see anything to disable it.

[Yaboze]

It's in Manage 3D Settings, in the list of options. I think you need 190.xx to see it, because it's not here in the 186.18's.

[LBJM]

Adaptive vs High Performance allows you to change the clock speed of the video card. When you force the card(s) to HP your video card runs at full speed, which I doubt you want to happen if your just watching flash videos, so I would suggest you just leave it on adaptive.