Minecraft drops gpu clock

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

So I recently started playing Minecraft again. I'm still on 1.7.10 and also started installing mods. They're the most basic mods though so I don't know if that's the problem. I have GLSL Shaders, OptiFine, and Too Many Items installed as well as a couple texture packs. I run Riva Statistics tuner to see what my system is doing while I game and after a few minutes of game play, the GPU core clock drops from around 1200 down to around 700 or even sometimes down to 380 MHz. As you can imagine, running shaders with a core clock of 380 is not enjoyable at all. I can't even bring it back up with MSI Afterburner, it needs a system restart to correct. It's so bad, I'm running Crysis 3 at 4k at over triple the framerate and that isn't great either. It isn't an unstable GPU either because the GPU that's used for Minecraft is stable at 1333 MHz on the core and 3506 MHz on the RAM everywhere else. Thanks.

System specs:
CPU: I7 5775c @4.2 GHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-SLI
Memory: 16 GB Kingston Hyper X
Graphics Cards: 2x GTX 680

Things I've tried:
1. Uninstalling and reinstalling graphics drivers
2. Reinstalling Java
3. Reinstalling Minecraft
4. fboEnable: false
5. Downclocking the GPU
6. Adding GPU voltage
7. Setting a frame cap (so the GPU isn't pinned at 100% load)

 

[Epicness937]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Thanks, I'll try that.

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Texture packs don't seem to work without optifine.

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Well, I guess it does work. I've been in game for an hour and nothing's gone wrong. It's just a shame I can't use my favorite texture pack now. Thanks for the help.

 

[Epicness937]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Well, I guess it does work. I've been in game for an hour and nothing's gone wrong. It's just a shame I can't use my favorite texture pack now. Thanks for the help.

what resolusion is it?
your 2gb card setup will limit you most likely to 64x64 texture packs maybe 128x128 but im not sure

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Well, I guess it does work. I've been in game for an hour and nothing's gone wrong. It's just a shame I can't use my favorite texture pack now. Thanks for the help.

what resolusion is it?
your 2gb card setup will limit you most likely to 64x64 texture packs maybe 128x128 but im not sure

It was 256x256 so I guess the only reason it did work was because of optifine. I just ended up installing mcpatcher instead.

 

[Epicness937]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Well, I guess it does work. I've been in game for an hour and nothing's gone wrong. It's just a shame I can't use my favorite texture pack now. Thanks for the help.

what resolusion is it?
your 2gb card setup will limit you most likely to 64x64 texture packs maybe 128x128 but im not sure

It was 256x256 so I guess the only reason it did work was because of optifine. I just ended up installing mcpatcher instead.

mcpatcher and optifine for texture packs are not needed for compatibility anymore its more just efficiency for your video ram

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

uninstall optifine it screwed up my 970 sli setup back when i had that

Well, I guess it does work. I've been in game for an hour and nothing's gone wrong. It's just a shame I can't use my favorite texture pack now. Thanks for the help.

what resolusion is it?
your 2gb card setup will limit you most likely to 64x64 texture packs maybe 128x128 but im not sure

It was 256x256 so I guess the only reason it did work was because of optifine. I just ended up installing mcpatcher instead.

mcpatcher and optifine for texture packs are not needed for compatibility anymore its more just efficiency for your video ram

That's ok, I should probably upgrade my cards anyway.

 

[Epicness937]

budget?
i can help 😀

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

budget?
i can help 😀

I was thinking about a pair of 1080s or 1070s but I've also been thinking about getting a set of used cards of they're cheap enough.

 

[Epicness937]

budget?
i can help 😀

I was thinking about a pair of 1080s or 1070s but I've also been thinking about getting a set of used cards of they're cheap enough.

if minecraft is the only game you play get a 8gb 480 or r9 390x as vram is more important that gpu power in minecraft
IF you play other games then yes a 1070 or 1080 sli is a good idea im running two 1070s in my rig right now and its a beast

 

[HeeBeeJeeBee2287]

budget?
i can help 😀

I was thinking about a pair of 1080s or 1070s but I've also been thinking about getting a set of used cards of they're cheap enough.

if minecraft is the only game you play get a 8gb 480 or r9 390x as vram is more important that gpu power in minecraft
IF you play other games then yes a 1070 or 1080 sli is a good idea im running two 1070s in my rig right now and its a beast

Oh, I nearly play Minecraft, I usually play witcher 3, Crysis 3, and other graphically intensive games and I'd like to eventually get 3 144hz 1080p monitors or a single 4k 144hz monitor so I actually need the power.

 

[Epicness937]

budget?
i can help 😀

I was thinking about a pair of 1080s or 1070s but I've also been thinking about getting a set of used cards of they're cheap enough.

if minecraft is the only game you play get a 8gb 480 or r9 390x as vram is more important that gpu power in minecraft
IF you play other games then yes a 1070 or 1080 sli is a good idea im running two 1070s in my rig right now and its a beast

Oh, I nearly play Minecraft, I usually play witcher 3, Crysis 3, and other graphically intensive games and I'd like to eventually get 3 144hz 1080p monitors or a single 4k 144hz monitor so I actually need the power.

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