Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

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Hello,

I found this place and the CRU tool because of an old thread on Reddit. I was searching for a solution for the high idle speeds on my RTX2070 when using a multi monitor setup.

On my previous computer, running Windows 7 with a 1070, I had the same problem. There I was able to "solve" the problem simply by reducing the refresh rate from 144Hz to 120Hz.

On my new computer running Windows 10 and a new RTX 2070 Super this no longer works. No matter which refresh rates I choose, and no matter which combination of refresh rates I choose, the idle speed of the card sticks to 1600Mhz. The only thing that helps so far is using the 3rd Party tool nVidia Inspector.

Unfortunately ppl still recommenc the "solution" that worked on Windows 7 but as I said this is no longer the case. So I was pretty excited when I found this thread on reddit.

He wrote that, although Windows 10 shows the same refresh rate for both displays it actually isn't the same internally and that prevent the card from going to idle. He was able to solve it by creating a custom profile using CRU and applying it to both monitors so they both us the excact same refresh rates.

I tried to read everything, even all the CRT, HDMI and old stuff that doesn't apply to me, and worked myself up to page 264 but I'm lost. All the tools I know, nVidia Inspector, GPU-Z and so on do indeed show the same values for both monitors. And, while I was able to create a profile in CRU, I created one on both monitors for 120Hz, I fail do see where I can change to said profile. The monitor options of Windows 10 as well as the nVdia panel still only show the "normal" 120Hz as well as the other refresh rates? Do I have to delete the standard ones?

Am I stupid? What I'm doing wrong?

Windows 10 1909
nVidia 441.66
CRU 1.4.2
RTX 2070 Super
2x exact same 1440p GSync monitors (even the same revision)
Display Port

Thank you in advance.