You've got something WIERD going on if you have to run Chrome to get max hashrate - perhaps you don't have Afterburner set to run at startup, or something else is interfering?
There is nothing weird about it, afterburner it self does not render anything using GPU. Perhaps you are just using a aftermarket card that does include OC in the BIOS from the manufacturer.
Found the probable reason this has lower scores than the EWBF miner. Turns out it does not trigger 3D mode on your card, which disables OC and Boost.
You can replicate that by running Media Player Classic in Enhanced Video Renderer mode and even minimizing the paused video.
I got between 30 and 50 extra Sol/s
IDK what your on about, just did a performance test with a 3d app, (put everything on lowest settings) and i dropped 80 sols. To me it looks like it is already using 3d capabilities.
GTX Cards have profiles and switching between them changes the way boost and OC works. Simply put, the computation does not trigger a profile used when playing games or using hardware acceleration.
Once I trigger the change (for example media player with HW acceleration) the driver does increase clock of the card and enables boost to increase it even more.
I suppose most users use aftermarket cards and those are OC by default in BIOS. I am using reference GTX 980 and the difference is over 200MHz in Core Clock of the card
