Comment 4 for bug 456637

Wanted to add a me too - I've been experiencing frequent artifacts on screen leading to eventual system instability. I've been running for 22h without one hiccup since I forced the Nvidia Powermizer to performance mode. It seems that before the 190 series drivers the only way to do this is to use srikumar's method above, however in the newer drivers (190 series) there is an option in Nvidia-settings to change the Powermizer settings. It would be great if we could include this as an option in the nvidia-settings for drivers prior to the 190 series. Nvidia must have included that option for good reason, so it only seems logical that it should also be included in previous versions. I honestly believe this would solve alot of issues that people are having running the latest NVidia drivers from the repo's 185.18.36.