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GPU Clocks Aren't Set on Game Start

Open Sterophonick opened this issue 7 months ago • 0 comments

Your system information

  • Steam client version: 1748033199 - Fri, May 23, 14:29 UTC -07:00
  • SteamOS version: 3.7.8 - 20250522.2
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
  • Opted into SteamOS beta?: Yes
  • Hardware: Steam Deck OLED
  • Have you checked for updates in Settings > System?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

GPU Clocks are not properly set upon starting a game when the user creates a power profile in Steam. The GPU remains unlocked, causing worse performance in CPU-bound titles. This is fixed when the user either toggles the GPU clock control option or ticks the slider after the game has started, but the problem returns upon closing the game, requiring the user to manually fix it again when playing another game that has a power profile with a GPU clock setting.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Create a GPU clock profile for a game.
  2. Start/Restart the game in question.
  3. Observe in MangoHud that the GPU clock setting is not applied.
  4. Manually fix it in the QAM, every single time.

Sterophonick avatar May 24 '25 00:05 Sterophonick