u/Gremio_42

So I have a persistent GPU crash issue which is basically un-fixable. The only way I have found to stop the crashes was limiting my GPU power to 70%. Now since I'm on a laptop this doesn't work anymore on modern drivers. On MSI the power slider is simply greyed out. I know that on very old nvidia drivers from like two or three years back that option was still available. I know it because I had that driver for near of a year and a half because it was the only way I could play games. The driver is now so outdated that everything runs poorly and many games either won't allow me to boot them up or have issues when playing.

I would really appreciate it if some of you could tell me whether there is some other way to achieve the same power limit for my GPU on modern drivers. My laptop runs really well otherwise and it kinda sucks that such a simple fix is not possible because of some daft limitations set by nvidia.

If it's relevant I've got:

Lenovo Legion 5

RTX 2060

Intel i5 10300H

32G Ram

So this is an issue I've been having for some years now and I basically went through the nine cricles of tech support hell to try and solve it. Every now and then I try again, this time I would like to ask you guys what you make of it.

A few years ago I started getting seemingly random GPU crashes while playing games. The error codes Nvlddmkm 153 or 0 would show up in the Event Viewer. Now if you look these codes up, you will find that there is a bunch of people out there who seem to have driver related crashes with these error codes, some of them have found fixes, a lot of them haven't and chalk it up to Nvidia.

Anyway, I really cannot say whether it is the drivers fault at this point. I have tried all sorts of clean installations, driver removing tools and the like but none worked. One thing I will say is that the issue seems to have gotten worse with time, games will crash almost immeditately where they used to last half an hour or so. To me this deterioration suggests that hardware is the more likely culprit but concerning this I have also done my due dilligence. Throughout the ordeal I have replaced two RAM sticks and a malfunctioning SSD, I have done benchmark tests and all kinds of hardware scans I could find but none pointed to any malfunction.

The only thing that ever did anything was turning down the GPU to 70% with MSI afterburner. For a while this was an alright fix, it hardly worsened performance, but the fix does have a problem. For some reason the feature of turning down GPU usage through MSI stopped working for laptops after some driver update, so I'm stuck on a driver version thats getting to be three years old soon. This is starting to really be an issue because most newer games will just not run with drivers this out of date and some that do malfunction.

Anyway I was hoping that provided this describtion someone will maybe have an idea but really I don't believe there is a fix at this point, still I am ready to be surprised.

Here's the specs:

Lenovo Legion 5

Rtx 2060

32GB Ram

i5 10300H