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Don't keep MSI Afterburner or any other monitoring/tweaking software running while updating NVIDIA Geforce Drivers

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There's an interesting scenario with NVIDIA drivers power limiting GPU when there's monitoring or tweaking software enabled while express or custom (with factory reset) installing newer NVIDIA drivers. The installer basically puts the GPU in limp mode and restricts the maximum power limit.

So before applying new driver it pays to always check if you closed these programs first.

If you already noticed a performance drop of late and have been using MSI Afterburner for example running in the background then this is why

Source: Lower GPU performance may be observed in games after updating drivers while a GPU monitoring application is running in the background | NVIDIA (custhelp.com)

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    Really nice to know, Thanks  .

    Does it effect other drivers too (GPU or not) or only NVIDIA GPUs ? 

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    Really nice to know, Thanks  .

    Does it effect other drivers too (GPU or not) or only NVIDIA GPUs ? 

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    Technically it could but more likely only GPU from NVIDIA and possibly AMD too.

    I'm not sure if the same would apply to Intel throttlestop or Ryzen Master when applying chipset driver updates for example but to be safe it's best not to have those running when doing any updates and definitely don't have any voltage or frequency tweaks applied to the CPU when flashing BIOS (that includes any game mode or cpu boost one button click profile in BIOS itself)