Unfortunately, no. And switching to max perf is the only way.
nvidia's drivers gets really confused with Dolphin's workload because while Dolphin needs a somewhat snappy GPU, it's actual GPU load isn't all that much with a handful of games. nvidia's drivers gets confused at this workload and thinks it can clock down to save power and things will be fine. Unfortunately not.
However, if you set a per program profile for Dolphin, you can have your GPU only go into max perf mode only when Dolphin is running, and thats a good compromise.
nvidia's drivers gets really confused with Dolphin's workload because while Dolphin needs a somewhat snappy GPU, it's actual GPU load isn't all that much with a handful of games. nvidia's drivers gets confused at this workload and thinks it can clock down to save power and things will be fine. Unfortunately not.
However, if you set a per program profile for Dolphin, you can have your GPU only go into max perf mode only when Dolphin is running, and thats a good compromise.