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Rivatuner 2.10 released

Rivatuner has been updated towards version 2.10 In this release we
have included a huge number of new stuff to keep you busy, obviously
GeForce 9x00 support has been added as well as ForceWare GeForce
drivers up-to 177.92 and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.8 support.

With this release comes support for ATI Radeon 4800 class graphics
adapaters and better GeForce GTX series 200 support as well.

RivaTuner is a complete powerful tweaking environment, providing you
everything you may need to tune NVIDIA GPU based display adapters.
The widest driver-level Direct3D / OpenGL and system tuning options,
flexible profiling system allowing to make custom settings on
per-application basis, both driver-level and low-level hardware
access modes, unique diagnostic and real-time hardware monitoring
features and exclusive power user oriented tools like built-in
registry editor and patch script engine make RivaTuner's feature set
absolutely unmatched. RivaTuner supports all NVIDIA display adapters
starting from Riva TNT family up to the latest GeForce series and
widest range of NVIDIA drivers starting from the oldest Detonator
2.08 up to the newest ForceWare drivers family. In addition to
complete NVIDIA hardware support, RivaTuner also provides support for
display adapters based upon newer ATI graphics processors. All
RivaTuner's features besides driver-level tuning options are also
available on supported ATI hardware.

Guru3D.com is Rivatuner's official homepage, click here
<http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/>
to find version / build / changes and FAQ information.

For novice users, we have a guide to help you through Rivatuner and
setup fan speeds and overclocks on your graphics card. This guide
will hopefully help you understand how to use the features that
Rivatuner provides.

Download URL-
http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.10-download-163.html

Homepage - http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/

FAQ - http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatunerfaq/

Revision update - Version 2.10

Minor bugfixes:

Fixed core clock gating detection code for G8x and newer display
adapters. RivaTuner no longer erroneously detects core clock
generator switching to PCI-E bus clock and no longer monitors wrong
100MHz core / shader clock under certain conditions (e.g. wrong
shader clock on GeForce GTX 260 / 280 series in idle mode).
Driver-level fan control is no longer forcibly switching to direct
fan control mode when driver-level system tweaks dialog is being
closed and "Fan" tab is not in focus.

What's new:

Added ForceWare 177.xx drivers family support.
Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Added
databases for ForceWare 175.16, 175.19, 177.26, 177.35, 177.39,
177.41, 177.66, 177.70, 177.72, 177.73, 177.79, 177.83, 177.89 and
177.92.
Added Catalyst 8.5, 8.6, 8.7 and 8.8 drivers detection.
Updated Catalyst 8.5, 8.6, 8.7 and 8.8 certified SoftR9x00 patch
script (for Windows 2000/XP drivers only).
Improved NVIDIA GT200 graphics processors family support. Thanks to
Jacob Freeman ( -at -) EVGA for providing NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 display
adapter sample for testing.
Added AMD RV770 graphics processors family support. Now almost all
RivaTuner's features including overclocking, low-level fan control
and hardware monitoring are fully available on AMD RADEON HD 48x0
series display adapters. Thanks to Hilbert Hagedoorn ( -at -) The Guru of 3D
for providing AMD RADEON HD 4850 display adapter sample for testing.
Please take a note that currently RivaTuner doesn't support direct
access to generic I2C bus and flashrom on RV770 GPUs, so generic I2C
bus access based features (e.g. RADEON HD 4870 X2 fan control and
monitoring) and VGA BIOS image dumping features are currently not
available.
Improved set of technologies aimed to improve RivaTuner startup and
usage safety in conjunction with other hardware monitoring and
diagnostics related tools:

Previously used low-level I2C synchronization protocol is now also
applied to driver-level fan control calls to prevent possible
conflicts between low-level I2C transactions and internal
driver-level I2C transactions. Please take a note that to take full
effect the protocol must be supported by other tools used
simultaneously with RivaTuner, so please ensure that you're using
this version of RivaTuner with the latest versions of other
monitoring or diagnostics related software products (e.g. Everest or
EVGA Precision).

Updated bundled RivaTunerStatisticsServer v2.8.0 utility:

New server uses improved hook notification system and more
aggressive hooks unload routines aimed to minimize the situations
which require system reboot during server uninstallation.
Added new OSD rendering mode. Optional configurable OSD background
improves OSD text readability in some applications and prevents it
from merging with solid color screen. Please take a note that new
mode doubles performance hit caused by OSD rendering so it is
recommended to use in only when needed via the server's application
profiles.
Updated pseudo-3D applications list.

Updated exceptions list for bundled D3DOverrider utility.
Improved hardware monitoring module:

Now hardware monitoring plugin activation wizard module enables
ADT7473 plugin by default on GeForce GTX 260 / 280 series display
adapters.
Improved memory clock gating detection for GeForce GTX 260 / 280
series display adapters.
Improved VT1103.dll plugin:

Added support for voltage regulator output and average current
monitoring on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / 280 series. Please take a note
that Volterra voltage regulators are rather sensitive to frequent
polling and may return false data under heavy load, so it is not
recommended to use VRM monitoring in daily monitoring sessions.
Added support for serial VID encoding mode for VT1165 voltage
regulators to provide proper voltage regulator output monitoring on
AMD RADEON HD 4870 and GeForce GTX 260 / 280 series display adapters.

The plugin no longer uses hardware database to detect used VID
encoding mode. Now the plugin directly reads hardwired VID encoding
mode defined by configuration resistors.
Optimized average current monitoring implementation for
VT1105/VT1165 voltage regulators. Now the plugin pre-calculates and
pre-caches maximum output current instead of calculating it on each
average current read request.

Updated license agreement. New license agreement explicitly
restricts publishing any links to RivaTuner on www.nvnews.net
homepage or in www.nvnews.net discussion forums.
Minor UI changes and improvements.

Download URL-
http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.10-download-163.html

Homepage - http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/



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