ZM doesn't adjust any clock or similar settings, since this would interfere with user settings and may damage your hardware - all performance tuning on the hardware side is up to the user.
We (some of us) can't adjust core frequency while 3D mode is not engaged. We don't wont from your miner to adjust frequencies, that's what nVidia Boost i supposed to do, but to work properly 3D mode must be engaged. And obviously for some reasons on some systems it just does not happen. My friend, he has Windows 10 installed by himself, brand new ASUS 1080 Ti Strix, same problem. He has to run Chrome to get 720 Sol/s from that card. That other guy here, he runs video player. Maybe it's not linux thing, maybe people who prefer base frequencies over boosted (mean not overclocked by us, but by card itself) doesn't care, but there is somehow something wrong with Windows version, when you prefer maximum speed over heat or electricity cost. And no, nVidia Boost itself cannot damage your hardware, because it is default embedded thing in every GTX card designed by nVidia itself.
This is what I was trying to say. Nvidia and/or your card vendor did this not by accident, they disabled boost clocks for compute loads (which often run 24/7) on purpose.