Nvidia Inspector introduction and Guide

Either a refresh rate that matches the frame rate, or is an integer N multiple of it and with a 1/N vsync setting in profile inspector.

For example, 40FPS works best with 40Hz full vsync, 80Hz 1/2 vsync, 120Hz 1/3 vsync, etc.

This has nothing to do with CPU load, btw. For that, you can just use the nvidia v2 limiter. This is about the animation at the specific frame rate you're targeting not having stutter or judder.

 

Say someone is using a strange refresh monitor; 75hz or 144hz?

Sorry, I just didn't know if v1 would put pressure on the CPU or not, or if any specific setting could force it into v1 rather than v2.

And would Fast Sync be applicable here anywhere?

 

You use CRU and add the specific refresh rates you want. I was doing that prior to getting a g-sync monitor. I added modes for 48 (for 24FPS movies), 50 (for 25FPS PAL TV), 75, 80, 90 and 100 Hz.

Also, all 144Hz monitors have a 120Hz mode by default (which is the recommended mode to use for the desktop.)

v1 doesn't seem to behave any different to v2 when it comes to CPU usage.

In general, both v1 and v2 seem unstable though. Some people seem to have more luck with them. For me, the FPS I set them to is not followed. RTSS on the other hand is spot-on. If I was setting 59.991FPS, the game would run at exactly that. The nvidia limiter was rounding up or down at random.

RTSS raises CPU usage though (it loops on the CPU while the game is blocked from rendering more frames; it's one of the reasons RTSS is so accurate.)

Nope.

 

Thank you so much for the feedback. I can finally ease down about what options would be best for the folks back on the emu discussion. You've helped a ton.

 

One last question, do you know of a way to keep Nvidia GLCache from being reset or overwritten by other applications? Basically I would like it to be read-only after the shaders have been compiled, and I would like them to stay there after reboot, etc.

I read that it's based on if the hash still matches or not. Not sure if this has been worked around or not.

 

It does stay after a reboot, AFAIK. Also, the cached shaders are not overwritten by other games. Are you sure there's an issue there?

The hash thing is needed. If the hash changes, that means the shader has changed. That's the whole point of a hash; it makes sure that if the shader changed, the new version of it is cached. Otherwise, you'd be getting wrong shaders.

The cache should only be invalidated after a driver change. Or if it gets too big (older shaders get deleted.)

 

What makes you say this, is there any evidence of this, reports I've seen actually say the opposite and actually more Hz is blatently better for a smoother experience? Curious as to why you would limit this on a 144Hz monitor?

 

Because 144Hz cannot play 30FPS and 60FPS video 1:1. You get judder. And these are by far the most common video frame rates on the internet.

So my recommendation has always been 120Hz for the desktop, 144Hz for games.

 

Also with older drivers 144Hz used to prevent your GPU from downclocking while idle, but 120Hz was fine, unless you used Inspector's MDPS.

 

Interesting, so if I set my Windows Display Settings to 120Hz but use nVidia Preferred Refresh Rate - Highest Available that should work?

 

Yes, that works. I've been using that way.
120Hz for desktop and 144Hz for gaming.

 

I just update to the the 2.1.3.10 build of inspector profiler and it fixed the wierd framerate limiting number 60 fps is actual 60fps before all it had wierd numbers like 61.5 and such

 

Is there a way to force V-Sync in Unreal Engine 4 Games?

They seem to ignore NVCP.

 

Sorry if this forum isn't used anymore but I figured this the best place to ask my question relating to this.

When I use the nvidia inspector search bar for a certain game profile and hit apply, I have no idea if its taken effect in the game...I go back to inspector and it keeps resetting to global. Am I missing something, do I save a certain profile to a file folder or something. Any help would be great.

 

Its normal, it always opens up to the the global profile, just search for the game profile you modified again and you should see that the settings are still saved.

 

Profiles that you have modified (either in profile inspector or in the nvidia panel) can be bound in the list that open when you click the "house" icon (to the right of the profile search field.)

 

Guys if you are playing CS GO i have a custom profile for inspector , those you have fps drops and low fps in laptops and low budget pc's will help them , those you have good pc setup will get 20 fps boost only
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9nz490ev1i55psv/nvidiainspector.rar?dl=0

 

I had a question. I wanted to use this to downclock my GPU with 3 monitors, but it does not include Nvidiainspector.exe anymore? This is just what is NvidiaProfileInspector. Was that discontinued? Just curious, as I see the projects were "split". I grabbed an older version of the program and it came with inspector so I could force states. I was just curious if there was one that worked better as sometimes my state doesn't stay P0 during a game and causes a flickering.

 

Hi everyone.

Does anybody know where are profiles located?
I mean those profiles that nvidia inspector/profile can edit.

I had not succesful try to tune up my gtx680 via inspector.
I put about 80% fan to default in Inspector and some options in profile section (dont remember those one).
i had to switch off all thing i could find in autostart etc, but still 680 is starting with 80% fan (so you hear that noise every time) and some optoins from profile.
problem is that 680 isnt working with these changes (i got 43 error in win which indicates that videocard is off).

I had to clean up nvidia drivers, system register, use DDU, etc, etc, but still got no result.

 

Hi guys,

Can anyone point me what the option OpenGL Override do exactly. The functions in this tool are very obscure, basically the majority of them you can't find anything in the web.