511.23 a bad driver?

[dedelbert66]

After Clean install of Windows 11
build 22581 October 2022 update (22H2) and installing latest studio driver 511.65 or 512.15
I am now facing this issue on 2 different systems.
both used to boost till 1965MHz now they reach 1530MHz (1660 Super) and 1200MHz (RTX3050) with 100% utilization.
What should I do

[Time2Kill]

On my 3070 I noticed that if I pause the wu on this driver that when I resume work. It would only run my gpu up to about 1/3 it's potential frequency. So instead of running ~1800MHz. It would only run ~750MHz. I dropped from ~3M PPD to ~1M PPD. Restarting the client didn't fix it. I reinstalled the client. Didn't fix it. I noticed starting GPU-Z caused the error to self correct for a very short time, but then it would go right back. So I DDU'd the system, and rolled my drivers back to 472.12 because I knew that F@H worked fine on that driver with my card.

[toTOW]

Some applications using GPU acceleration could cause this (Slack, Discord, web browser, ...) ... to avoid this, I always "Prefer maximum performance" in NV control panel instead of the default setting of power management setting.