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  • zmeul - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    nVidia added "Optimal Power" alongside Adaptive Power and Prefer Performance

    anyone knows what Optimal Power does differently?
  • damianrobertjones - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    Adaptive power - Changes depending on what you need.
    Prefer performance - Saving battery but performance when needed.
    Optimal power - Everything running at max battery.

    Pretty obvious?
  • Duckeenie - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    Not at all obvious. In fact optimal power sounds more like a power saving feature, otherwise the term would be maximum power, wouldn't it? Where is your source? I couldn't find anything in the driver release notes.
  • damianrobertjones - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    I have no source but decided to offer a possible explanation.
  • MrSpadge - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    Not obvious. "Optimal power" should be "Maximum power saving" if you're correct. Under "Optimal power" I would understand a solution which always delivers the GPU the "optimal" amount of power, i.e. enough to achieve a target fps value but nothing more. Which is actually an adaptive scheme which I would expect the "Adaptive power" mode to apply.
  • damianrobertjones - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    So... agree or disagree?
  • gijoe50000 - Saturday, June 4, 2016 - link

    In my case 'optimal power' sends my top card to 95c and then throttles down to 540mhz, and my second card acts as normal (60c). I think it then tries to give the top card more power to get more performance and it stays at 90~95c, and I get about 6-10fps. They fucked up somewhere, or they're using us as guinea, pigs or both.
    I'm quite suspicious about the fact that they added the feature, set it as default, and didn't say anything about it, or give any description..
  • Cold Fussion - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    The article title is 365.10 instead of 368.22
  • Michael Bay - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    Quite bad, Warhammer releasing in three days and being the CA game people actually care about.
  • xthetenth - Tuesday, May 24, 2016 - link

    Seriously what is up with the vaunted ~*NVIDIA Drivers*~ this past year or so? Missing game day drivers on a major game that has driver issues because of it and having multiple other buggy releases? Recently RTG's been showing them up. I'm so very confused, my 290's rock steady while the 970 I ditched for it was troublesome.
  • poohbear - Wednesday, May 25, 2016 - link

    no warhammer optimizations? really? its the biggest release on PC this week but Nvidia wasn't ready for it? Guess the AMD partnership with CA got in the way?
  • SeanJ76 - Friday, May 27, 2016 - link

    Nvidia drivers have been BAD for about the last year or so. I Evga 770 SC Sli due to the 980Ti not being much of a upgrade, I can only use the 355.98 driver, anything newer ends up in with constant "Display driver has crashed.."
  • SeanJ76 - Friday, May 27, 2016 - link

    So far, their are 20+ pages of errors with this newest driver......

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