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#1 2009-03-15 02:36:42

johnnymac
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Registered: 2007-09-24
Posts: 14

NVIdia Powermizer on Laptops - Slow Performance during gaming

Hope this is the place for this post...

I'm currently running nvidia 180.29 and I have the following set in my xorg.conf file:

Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x3"

The problem I see occurring is that; during gaming the performance level will move from what I have it set to above (Level 2) and dropping to a lower level performance.  This; of course, causes a HUGE drop in frames while gaming.  I've tried EVERYTHING I researched but nothing seems to make this sticky.

I have tried:
1.  Adding options to /etc/modprobe.conf (Setting nvidia stuff I found googl'ing around)
2.  The above options added to my device sections of my xorg.conf file
3.  Running this script that some said would keep it sticky:

while true; do
    
    powerstate=`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state | awk '{print $2}'`
    
    if [ $powerstate = "on-line"  ]; then
       nvidia-settings -q all > /dev/null
    fi
    sleep 25;
done

All attempts have failed and my performance is HORRIBLE as long as the game is running.  When the game quits the performance returns.

Any suggestions, information, links..etc would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance...

EDIT:  See alot of people complaining about 180.29 and powermizer.....does anyone know if it's broken??  If it is...can someone post a quick link to how to downgrade?

Last edited by johnnymac (2009-03-15 02:39:56)

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#2 2009-03-15 14:03:07

mrunion
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From: Jonesborough, TN
Registered: 2007-01-26
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Re: NVIdia Powermizer on Laptops - Slow Performance during gaming

If you haven't ran a "pacman -Sc" you can downgrade to the old version in your /var/cache/pacman/pkg folder using pacman -U nvidia.xxxx.xxx.


Matt

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#3 2009-03-15 14:29:31

johnnymac
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Registered: 2007-09-24
Posts: 14

Re: NVIdia Powermizer on Laptops - Slow Performance during gaming

Problem is...this installation is quite new so only thing I have is the 180.29 sad

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#4 2009-06-21 16:10:01

Void_Walker
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Registered: 2009-06-17
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Re: NVIdia Powermizer on Laptops - Slow Performance during gaming

You can try to install some older drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html find the driver for your PC, select archiver, run the script... Should work.

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