Guide: Permanently lock nvidia gpu on max frequency via regedit (KBOOST)

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MatrixQW
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Re: Guide: Permanently lock nvidia gpu on max frequency via regedit (KBOOST)

Post by MatrixQW » 05 Jun 2023, 02:31

Slender wrote:
03 Jun 2023, 19:10
MatrixQW wrote:
03 Jun 2023, 16:12
At boot, RTC will go out of sync.
Seems that even even when I run restart64 two times it sometimes goes out of sync. It behaves erratically.
I ran restart64 like 3 or 4 times and left cpu-z timers tool running for 5h and it was good.
Windows is using TSC so I think I will just forget about this or I will go crazy trying to find out what causes it.
if you boot without gpu driver?
Doesn't seem to happen. Well there is nothing I can do anyway. Most probably this happens to more people.
And like I said, Windows doesn't use RTC anymore.

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Slender
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Re: Guide: Permanently lock nvidia gpu on max frequency via regedit (KBOOST)

Post by Slender » 05 Jun 2023, 06:03

MatrixQW wrote:
05 Jun 2023, 02:31
Slender wrote:
03 Jun 2023, 19:10
MatrixQW wrote:
03 Jun 2023, 16:12
At boot, RTC will go out of sync.
Seems that even even when I run restart64 two times it sometimes goes out of sync. It behaves erratically.
I ran restart64 like 3 or 4 times and left cpu-z timers tool running for 5h and it was good.
Windows is using TSC so I think I will just forget about this or I will go crazy trying to find out what causes it.
if you boot without gpu driver?
Doesn't seem to happen. Well there is nothing I can do anyway. Most probably this happens to more people.
And like I said, Windows doesn't use RTC anymore.
windows using it if you have useplatformtick yes or you have RTC system timer in device manager in ISA tree


blue_water
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Re: Guide: Permanently lock nvidia gpu on max frequency via regedit (KBOOST)

Post by blue_water » 02 Apr 2026, 13:42

I tried the registry edit:

RTX 2080 is found in
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{70FE5764-A86F-11F0-8D8D-40C73CFB3FE7}\0002

I tried "DisableDynamicPstate"=dword:00000001 in 0001 and 0000 and it doesnt work, power state still stays at P5 at idle, after restart

Babluga
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Re: Guide: Permanently lock nvidia gpu on max frequency via regedit (KBOOST)

Post by Babluga » 02 Apr 2026, 14:48

blue_water wrote:
02 Apr 2026, 13:42
I tried the registry edit:

RTX 2080 is found in
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{70FE5764-A86F-11F0-8D8D-40C73CFB3FE7}\0002

I tried "DisableDynamicPstate"=dword:00000001 in 0001 and 0000 and it doesnt work, power state still stays at P5 at idle, after restart
try this one...

Force P-State 0 with the registry key below (reboot required)

reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000" /v "DisableDynamicPstate" /t REG_DWORD /d "1" /

blue_water
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Re: Guide: Permanently lock nvidia gpu on max frequency via regedit (KBOOST)

Post by blue_water » 03 Apr 2026, 02:42

Oh, I realised I made a mistake. I have 0000, 0001, and 0002. RTX 2080 is under 0002 for me, Intel HD under 0001. When I add the registry value to 0002 it works.

Thanks Babluga for helping

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