[Guru3D] Rivatuner 2.20 Released - 11/20/08 08:42 AM
Rivatuner 2.20 released
Guru3D's Rivatuner has been updated towards version 2.20 In this
release we have included a huge number of new stuff to keep you busy,
obviously support has been added as well as ForceWare GeForce drivers
up-to 180.48 WHQL and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.11 support.
The biggest change and challenge for this release was to support
Multi-GPU (SLI/CrossfireX) configurations.
With this release comes support for ATI Radeon HD 4600/4800 (RV710
and RV730) class graphics adapters and better GeForce GTX series 200
support (including GeForce GTX 260 Core 216) as well. We now also
support much asked for proper fan control on AMD RADEON HD 4870 X2
series.
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 (click here)
<http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.11-download-163.html>
Homepage <http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/>
FAQ <http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatunerfaq/>
Full URL to homepage:
http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/
Full URL to download link:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.20-download-163.html
Below you can find the change list, you better grab some coffee first
;)
Changelist Version 2.20:
Minor bugfixes:
Fixed incorrect 2x effective memory clock multiplier for RADEON HD
4870 / 4870 X2 series equipped with QDR DDR5 memory.
What's new:
Added ForceWare 178.xx and 180.xx drivers families support.
Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Added
databases for ForceWare 178.13, 178.15, 178.24, 180.10, 180.20,
180.42, 180.43, 180.44, 180.47 and 180.48.
Added Catalyst 8.9, 8.10 and 8.11 driver families detection.
Added workaround for broken error reporting system of PowerPlay
clock control interfaces in Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 2 and Catalyst 8.11
driver families. Due to internal bug these drivers report incorrect
error codes in PowerPlay clock control calls, causing overclocking
tools like RivaTuner, ATITool or AMDGPUClockTool to stop working
properly. Until the problem is fixed in the Catalyst driver RivaTuner
provides temporary workaround by disabling error control for PowerPlay
clock control calls on the Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 2 and newer drivers.
Please take a note that the workaround can be forcibly disabled via
ATIPowerPlayErrorReportingWorkaround registry entry.
Added driver-level fan control support for ForceWare 180.xx drivers
family.
Updated PCI DeviceID database for both AMD and NVIDIA display
adapters.
Added NVIDIA G98 graphics processors support.
Added AMD RADEON HD 4830 display adapters family support.
Added support for direct assess to flashrom chips of AMD RV7xx
graphics processors family.
Updated exceptions list for bundled D3DOverrider utility.
Seriously redesigned hardware access layer provides drastically
improved multi-GPU support. Now RivaTuner no longer uses single
device selection ideology and supports simultaneous access to
multiple physical display devices or GPUs in the most popular and
frequently used modules, such as hardware monitoring module, profile
launcher and task scheduler.
Drastically increased performance of routines applying clock
frequencies and fan speed when experimental cloning modes are
enabled. Due to new multi-GPU oriented hardware access layer all
display devices can be accessed simultaneously, it saves CPU time
required on switching current display device and reinitializing
hardware access layer in ther previous version.
Now RivaTuner displays physical GPU index in the main tab on
multi-GPU systems to simplify identifying independent physical
devices and logical devices of the same physical GPU (e.g. two
independent RAMDACs located on the same physical GPU).
Improved hardware monitoring module:
New multi-GPU oriented hardware access layer allows simultaneous
monitoring of all supported physical display adapters and GPUs
installed in the system. Simultaneous monitoring is available for
both multi-monitor configurations and SLI/Crossfire modes.
Improved API for hardware monitoring plugins:
Added new GetSourceCaps function allowing the plugins to report
different capabilities specific for exported data sources. This
function helps hardware monitoring core to identify system wide and
multi-GPU support capable data sources.
Added set of new hardware access functions allowing the plugins to
access multiple physical display devices simultaneously and provide
multi-GPU monitoring.
All GPU sensor specific plugins (e.g. ADT7473.dll) have been updated
to support new API functions and provide multi-GPU monitoring support.
All system wide plugins (e.g. CPU.dll) have been updated to support
reporting system wide data source capability.
Improved ADT7473.dll plugin.
Now the plugin's database may include hardcoded pulses per
revolution counters for some display adapter models to provide
correct fan speed monitoring on the systems with counters improperly
calibrated in VGA BIOS (e.g. some GeForce 8800GT models).
Improved software TSS calibration algorithm for RV7xx graphics
processors family.
Improved launcher module:
New multi-GPU oriented hardware access layer allows associating
launch items with any desired physical or logical display device and
launching the profiles specific for this device without changing
current display device selection.
Now RivaTuner no longer records launcher events into hardware
monitoring event history panel by default. Now you may enable
launcher event history logging into event history panel properties if
necessary.
Improved scheduler module:
New multi-GPU oriented monitoring module and launcher allow using
the scheduler to program independent dynamic gamma, fan and clock
control algorithms for each physical display device installed in the
system.
New 'Pause scheduler' module allows you to suspend the scheduler's
activity if necessary.
New 'Sampling period' setting allows you to override default
sampling period for scheduled tasks associated with hardware
monitoring module. Custom sampling period setting can be useful if
hardware monitoring module polls hardware frequently but too frequent
scheduled tasks execution is not desired. Please take a note that in
case of defining multiple scheduled tasks with different sampling
periods the maximum sampling period defined for a data source is
being used.
New 'Task freezing period' setting allows you to define so called
task freezing period for scheduled tasks associated with hardware
monitoring module. Task freezing period setting is useful when it is
necessary to program a few tasks with different execution priorities.
Executing a task with non-zero task freezing period causes the
scheduler module to suspend execution of all tasks associated with
the same data source until task freezing period is over and to put
such tasks into the queue. The last queued task will be executed in
the end of task freezing period.
Now RivaTuner restarts hardware monitoring range based tasks on
hardware monitoring module startup, on hardware monitoring history
clearing and on resuming the scheduler module from pause.
Now RivaTuner no longer records scheduler events into hardware
monitoring event history panel by default. Now you may enable
scheduler event history logging into event history panel properties
if necessary.
Improved low-level hardware overclocking module for ATI display
adapters:
Now RivaTuner hides low-level overclocking tab on PowerPlay support
capable display adapters (RV630 and newer series) when overclocking
functionality is not available (e.g. on the secondary GPUs in
Crossfire mode under Windows XP).
Now RivaTuner locks obsolete options in additional overclocking
properties on PowerPlay support capable display adapters (RV630 and
newer series).
Now undocumented command line based hardware access interfaces also
support queued current display device selection via /SD and
/SELECTDEVICE command line switches.
More tweaks improving target value generation accuracy have been
done into floating point duty cycle calculation routines for all
types of internal and external fan controllers.
--
Guru3D's Rivatuner has been updated towards version 2.20 In this
release we have included a huge number of new stuff to keep you busy,
obviously support has been added as well as ForceWare GeForce drivers
up-to 180.48 WHQL and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.11 support.
The biggest change and challenge for this release was to support
Multi-GPU (SLI/CrossfireX) configurations.
With this release comes support for ATI Radeon HD 4600/4800 (RV710
and RV730) class graphics adapters and better GeForce GTX series 200
support (including GeForce GTX 260 Core 216) as well. We now also
support much asked for proper fan control on AMD RADEON HD 4870 X2
series.
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 (click here)
<http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.11-download-163.html>
Homepage <http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/>
FAQ <http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatunerfaq/>
Full URL to homepage:
http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/
Full URL to download link:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.20-download-163.html
Below you can find the change list, you better grab some coffee first
;)
Changelist Version 2.20:
Minor bugfixes:
Fixed incorrect 2x effective memory clock multiplier for RADEON HD
4870 / 4870 X2 series equipped with QDR DDR5 memory.
What's new:
Added ForceWare 178.xx and 180.xx drivers families support.
Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Added
databases for ForceWare 178.13, 178.15, 178.24, 180.10, 180.20,
180.42, 180.43, 180.44, 180.47 and 180.48.
Added Catalyst 8.9, 8.10 and 8.11 driver families detection.
Added workaround for broken error reporting system of PowerPlay
clock control interfaces in Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 2 and Catalyst 8.11
driver families. Due to internal bug these drivers report incorrect
error codes in PowerPlay clock control calls, causing overclocking
tools like RivaTuner, ATITool or AMDGPUClockTool to stop working
properly. Until the problem is fixed in the Catalyst driver RivaTuner
provides temporary workaround by disabling error control for PowerPlay
clock control calls on the Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 2 and newer drivers.
Please take a note that the workaround can be forcibly disabled via
ATIPowerPlayErrorReportingWorkaround registry entry.
Added driver-level fan control support for ForceWare 180.xx drivers
family.
Updated PCI DeviceID database for both AMD and NVIDIA display
adapters.
Added NVIDIA G98 graphics processors support.
Added AMD RADEON HD 4830 display adapters family support.
Added support for direct assess to flashrom chips of AMD RV7xx
graphics processors family.
Updated exceptions list for bundled D3DOverrider utility.
Seriously redesigned hardware access layer provides drastically
improved multi-GPU support. Now RivaTuner no longer uses single
device selection ideology and supports simultaneous access to
multiple physical display devices or GPUs in the most popular and
frequently used modules, such as hardware monitoring module, profile
launcher and task scheduler.
Drastically increased performance of routines applying clock
frequencies and fan speed when experimental cloning modes are
enabled. Due to new multi-GPU oriented hardware access layer all
display devices can be accessed simultaneously, it saves CPU time
required on switching current display device and reinitializing
hardware access layer in ther previous version.
Now RivaTuner displays physical GPU index in the main tab on
multi-GPU systems to simplify identifying independent physical
devices and logical devices of the same physical GPU (e.g. two
independent RAMDACs located on the same physical GPU).
Improved hardware monitoring module:
New multi-GPU oriented hardware access layer allows simultaneous
monitoring of all supported physical display adapters and GPUs
installed in the system. Simultaneous monitoring is available for
both multi-monitor configurations and SLI/Crossfire modes.
Improved API for hardware monitoring plugins:
Added new GetSourceCaps function allowing the plugins to report
different capabilities specific for exported data sources. This
function helps hardware monitoring core to identify system wide and
multi-GPU support capable data sources.
Added set of new hardware access functions allowing the plugins to
access multiple physical display devices simultaneously and provide
multi-GPU monitoring.
All GPU sensor specific plugins (e.g. ADT7473.dll) have been updated
to support new API functions and provide multi-GPU monitoring support.
All system wide plugins (e.g. CPU.dll) have been updated to support
reporting system wide data source capability.
Improved ADT7473.dll plugin.
Now the plugin's database may include hardcoded pulses per
revolution counters for some display adapter models to provide
correct fan speed monitoring on the systems with counters improperly
calibrated in VGA BIOS (e.g. some GeForce 8800GT models).
Improved software TSS calibration algorithm for RV7xx graphics
processors family.
Improved launcher module:
New multi-GPU oriented hardware access layer allows associating
launch items with any desired physical or logical display device and
launching the profiles specific for this device without changing
current display device selection.
Now RivaTuner no longer records launcher events into hardware
monitoring event history panel by default. Now you may enable
launcher event history logging into event history panel properties if
necessary.
Improved scheduler module:
New multi-GPU oriented monitoring module and launcher allow using
the scheduler to program independent dynamic gamma, fan and clock
control algorithms for each physical display device installed in the
system.
New 'Pause scheduler' module allows you to suspend the scheduler's
activity if necessary.
New 'Sampling period' setting allows you to override default
sampling period for scheduled tasks associated with hardware
monitoring module. Custom sampling period setting can be useful if
hardware monitoring module polls hardware frequently but too frequent
scheduled tasks execution is not desired. Please take a note that in
case of defining multiple scheduled tasks with different sampling
periods the maximum sampling period defined for a data source is
being used.
New 'Task freezing period' setting allows you to define so called
task freezing period for scheduled tasks associated with hardware
monitoring module. Task freezing period setting is useful when it is
necessary to program a few tasks with different execution priorities.
Executing a task with non-zero task freezing period causes the
scheduler module to suspend execution of all tasks associated with
the same data source until task freezing period is over and to put
such tasks into the queue. The last queued task will be executed in
the end of task freezing period.
Now RivaTuner restarts hardware monitoring range based tasks on
hardware monitoring module startup, on hardware monitoring history
clearing and on resuming the scheduler module from pause.
Now RivaTuner no longer records scheduler events into hardware
monitoring event history panel by default. Now you may enable
scheduler event history logging into event history panel properties
if necessary.
Improved low-level hardware overclocking module for ATI display
adapters:
Now RivaTuner hides low-level overclocking tab on PowerPlay support
capable display adapters (RV630 and newer series) when overclocking
functionality is not available (e.g. on the secondary GPUs in
Crossfire mode under Windows XP).
Now RivaTuner locks obsolete options in additional overclocking
properties on PowerPlay support capable display adapters (RV630 and
newer series).
Now undocumented command line based hardware access interfaces also
support queued current display device selection via /SD and
/SELECTDEVICE command line switches.
More tweaks improving target value generation accuracy have been
done into floating point duty cycle calculation routines for all
types of internal and external fan controllers.
--