I've successfully used this concept to get rid of the DCH drivers:
https://www.techpowerup.com/250415/psa-nvidia-installer-cannot-continue-on-windows-october-2018-update-and-how-to-fix-it

Awesome Miner version 7.1.3

 ASIC mining
  - Increased compatibility for the profit switcher to focus on the 10 most profitable pools when rearranging the pool priorities
 Mining software
  - Gminer 1.73, including support for Ethereum mining on Nicehash and Mining Pool Hub
  - SrbMiner Multi 0.1.5 beta
  - WildRig Miner 0.20.1 beta
  - Nanominer 1.6.2
 Corrections
  - Correction to a scenario where user defined pools identical to predefined pools could be incorrectly removed

In general, the DCH drivers are not as compatible and well working as the standard nVidia drivers. There are also some mining software not as well on the DCH drivers.

With the latest nVidia standard Game Ready drivers, the fan settings works fine on at least RTX-2080 when I'm testing.

The overclocking should be applied before starting the mining software. It's possible to put a pause after applying and before starting the mining software. See Options dialog, Miner settings section, Pause after applying clocking settings.

Can you please try to right click on the Remote Agent icon and select Options. First uncheck the Autostart checkbox and save the changes - then go back to enable it again. Is this process working?

I think these are the GPU driver default you end up with. There are unfortunately no feature in Awesome Miner to adjust those. I suppose Awesome Miner would have to monitor the current clocking in some way to handle this. Maybe a rule trigger to detect the power limit or similar properties?

Awesome Miner is already trying to detect if the ZIP-file is corrupt / incomplete and force a new download, but this might also been an issue of a very slow download. Thanks for the feedback.

In the Clocking Group Properties you can select other mapping rules than the default "GPU name". When using "GPU name" you are correct that it will be applied to all the GPU's matching the name so it isn't possible to use if you have two identical models where you want to apply different clocking settings.

Please note that the "Matching rule" property can be changed from "GPU Name" to "GPU ID" or "GPU PCI Bus ID" to specify specific GPU's. Is this the setting you were looking for?

It's quite common to have more than a single overclocking configuration per mining rig, as algorithms like Ethereum may benefit from other clocking settings than other algorithms for example. This is the reason why the profit switcher can be configured to apply a specific clocking profile depending on the mining algorithm.

If you want to apply the configured overclocking when a miner is starting, you can right click on the miner, go to the GPU clocking profile section and select a GPU clocking profile to be applied.

I do however agree your point that it should be easier to simply save whatever clocking you have - either to a miner or a profile - without having to manually setup the clocking profiles like today. I've had similar feedback about saving to a profile in the past. I will investigate how to improve this - thanks for all feedback!

Awesome Miner version 7.1.2

 ASIC mining
  - Innosilicon A10 support improved
 Feature
  - Display of average and maximum temperature per group in the Miners tab
  - Improved compatibility for processing data responses from dynamic updates of coin properties
 Integration
  - ProHashing pool
  - Stex exchange balance
  - TradeOgre exchange balance
  - Zergpool pool information to exclude solo mining pools
 User interface
  - Clocking Profile selection in the Profit Profile has been improved to make more room for the name of the profile
 Mining software
  - Gminer 1.71
  - Z-enemy miner 2.3
  - XmRig CPU miner 4.5.0 beta
 Correction
  - Correction to exponential factor for ZClassic coin calculations

When using the profit switcher where you have multiple algorithms for the same miner, the hashrate value will not be that relevant, just like you pointed out. It's mainly for ASIC mining or single-coin mining the hashrate is of interest.

I do however agree that it would be nice improvement to have this information per algorithm for each miner. It would probably need to be a new view where you select a specific miner you want more information for.

Can you please check if the Awesome Miner log file (toolbar: Tools -> Log File) indicates any more details? Please look for something like:
Downloading file https://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setup/AwesomeMiner.msi to C:\...\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\AwesomeMiner.msi

If you go to the Awesome Miner web site and download AwesomeMiner.msi and save it to the same folder (...\AppData\Local\AwesomeMiner\) - is this download+save operation working?

This is a string value that Awesome Miner doesn't interpret as a number. I will update the data parser for this in the next release to be able to handle it.

I noticed that this coin requires a custom "Exponential Factor". I will add this in the next release.

You can manually configure this as well if you want to get the correct calculations right away. Please go to the Coins tab and open the Properties for ZClassic. Select "Override exponential factor" (only override this value, nothing else) and enter the value: 13

Thanks for the feedback. I'm always open for suggestions and I agree that it would be nice with better coin statistics providers. I don't have any quick solution to this right now, but I do understand your point.

Please also note that once it's made very easy to mine a specific coin thanks to mining software, algorithm being available, pools are available, good profit statistics are available - the coin will be much more popular to mine and it will no longer be as profitable.

Thanks for the suggestions and remark about the GPU overclocking - I will look into this.

Thanks - I agree and there have also been similar suggestions in the past so it's noted and the plan is to support it in the future.

Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into this for the next version.

Thanks for the feedback. I can make a small UI adjustment in the next release, but there are many settings in the Profit Profiles dialog that needs to fit.

I've pushed an update for this - please use the feature to Update Mining Software Definitions.

Mining Dutch wasn't supposed to be selectable for Pool Balance as the implementation isn't ready yet. They do have an API for balance, but it must be requested for each individual coin (can be 50 or them...) so Awesome Miner will put quite high load on their servers to figure all this out.

I've reached out to them about this now and see if there are any good solutions. The plan is to have support for balance via Mining Dutch later on.

Once the implementation is ready, the idea is that you enter your Mining Dutch API-key (can be found in the account settings on the Mining Dutch web site) in Awesome Miner.