Rivatuner 2.11

Rivatuner has been updated towards version 2.11 In this release we
have included a huge number of new stuff to keep you guys nicely
busy, obviously support has been added as well as ForceWare GeForce
drivers up-to 177.98 and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.8 support.

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.

What does this software do ? - RivaTuner is a free 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
<http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.11-download-163.html>

Homepage <http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatuner/>

FAQ <http://www.guru3d.com/category/rivatunerfaq/>

Download URL:

http://downloads.guru3d.com/RivaTuner-v2.11-download-163.html

A news post about this release obviously would be fantastic. Thanks
guys !

Version 2.11:

Minor bugfixes:

Low-level hardware access interfaces are now re-initialized properly
before restarting the plugins when changing display adapter selection
in the main tab.

What's new:

Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Added
database for ForceWare 177.98.
Added experimental AMD RV710 and RV730 graphics processors families
support. Thanks to Andrey Vorobiev for testing RivaTuner with AMD
RADEON HD 4670.
Display adapter enumeration routine has been modified to provide
proper fan control on AMD RADEON HD 4870 X2 series. New enumeration
routine also gives additional advantages to the rest systems:

Now RivaTuner is able to detect physical display adapters attached
to logical Windows display devices as well as unattached physical
display adapters. Low-level access to unattached display adapters
gives you the following abilities:

Ability to use RivaTuner for low-level diagnostics, hardware
monitoring and fan control even when Windows is booted in VGA mode
(e.g. in safe mode or with no display driver installed).
Ability to use RivaTuner for low-level diagnostics, hardware
monitoring and fan control for slave display devices in SLI /
Crossfire mode invisible for OS.

Attached display adapters detection time has been reduced due to
optimized PCI bus scanning routine. Furthermore, both attached and
unattached display devices detection are optional and can be forcibly
disabled via DetectAttachedDevices and DetectUnattachedDevices
registry entries for startup time optimization.
Improved secondary display adapter heads enumeration. Now RivaTuner
mirrors primary head specific settings (e.g. overclocking and fan
control) into the secondaty head UI.
Optimized startup time due to improved object dynamic/static casting
in hardware abstraction layer.

Added experimental overclocking support for the secondary display
adapters in Crossfire systems (only for Windows Vista).
Added experimental low-level fan control and overclocking settings
cloning modes. When cloning mode is enabled RivaTuner clones and
automatically applies the same low-level fan control or overclocking
settings to all identical devices (i.e. the same display adapter
models, different brands are allowed) installed in the system. Please
take a note that currently these modes are available to power users
only and can be enabled via EnableFanControlCloning and
EnableClockControlCloning registry entries.
Updated exceptions list for bundled D3DOverrider utility.
Improved hardware monitoring module:

Improved ADT7473.dll plugin:

Added Vcc and Vccp voltages monitoring support. Now The the plugin
can monitor state of +3.3V supply voltage of ADT7473 chip (Vcc) and
additinal optional voltage input (Vccp), which can be used to monitor
different display adapter related voltages depending on the PCB design
(e.g. memory voltage on RADEON HD 4870 X2 series display adapters).
Improved fan speed monitoring for fans with non-standard pulses per
revolution count on tachometer output. Now the plugin no longer uses
hardcoded calculations for standard fans with 2 pulses per revolution
and can provide correct RPM monitoring for such systems (e.g. fans
with 4 pulses per revolution on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 / 280 series).


Improved VT1103.dll plugin:

Now the plugin is able to monitor independent temperatures of
VT1105/VT1165 voltage regulator phases (slave chips).

Improved temperature monitoring for RV710 / RV730 / RV770 graphics
processors family. Now RivaTuner is able to monitor independent
temperatures of display controller, memory controller and shader core
on RV7xx graphics processors. Please take a note that unlike many
other diagnostic tools reading these temperatures via GPU's internal
sensor switching and calibration logic, RivaTuner reads these
temperatures via direct access to thermal sensor's ADC outputs and
calibrates ADC readings at software level. Such approach drastically
reduces CPU load and doesn't have side effects like fan speed
fluctuations caused by frequent sensor switching, however it is in
experimental stage yet so please contact me if additional core
temperatures reported by RivaTuner and other software like GPU-Z or
Everest seriously differ on your system. Please take a note that
traditional sensor switching based access to these temperature
sensors can be also enabled for debugging and performance comparision
via ATIThermalSensorAccessModeR7xx registry entry.
Optimized GPU usage monitoring for RV710 / RV730 / RV770 graphics
processors family. Now RivaTuner is no longer waiting for response
from on-die PowerPlay microcontroller if GPU usage is not sampled yet
and returns the previous cached value instead.
Now hardware monitoring plugin activation wizard module enables
ADT7473 plugin by default on AMD READEON HD 4870 X2 series display
adapters.

Improved /SD and /SELECTDEVICE command line switches handler.
RivaTuner's GUI is no longer activated and displayed when current
display device selection is changed via these command line switches.
This improvement allows you to switch target display device in
multimonitor or multi-GPU SLI/Crossfire systems via hotkeys without
leaving 3D application.
Added I2C bus disconnection feature for ATI RV6xx/RV7xx I2C
controllers. Now RivaTuner is able to mark I2C bus as unused and
exclude it from further detection when I2C controller is not
responding to the transactions through this bus during specified
timeout. Bus disconnection feature drastically reduces I2C devices
scanning time on some systems with missing I2C buses (e.g. on the
secondary chip of AMD RADEON HD 4870 X2 having no physical connection
to I2C bus). Please take a not that I2C bus disconnection can be
disabled via AllowI2CBusDisconnection registry entry if necessary.
Default timeout for ATI I2C transactions has been reduced from 2
seconds to 0.5 second. Now power users may adjust the timeout using
ATII2CTimeout registry entry.
Improved duty cycle generation accuracy for all types of on-die and
external fan controllers due to floating point calculation usage.


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