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?
Yeah, I don't get that at all. As soon as I apply the overclock settings in Afterburner, I see the increase Sol/s in the miner. No need to run anything else.
I admit it is weird, but two computers, different Windows version, different cads, different tools to OC (both apply settings at startup). Only same is DSTM and latest nVidia drivers.
And obviously this guy has same problem:
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
We both just need something that triggers 3D mode, DSTM miner just can't do it itself. Without 3D mode, no Boost, thus no OC of the core (other things works).
Maybe it is the latest driver problem...?