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RivaTuner 2.0 RC15.1 is on the way :)

Discussion in 'RivaTuner Advanced Discussion forum' started by Unwinder, Aug 30, 2004.

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Unwinder Ancient Guru Staff Member

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I'm glad to say that RC15.1 development has been finished at last and closed beta testing stage will start within a few minutes. New version is supposed to be launched on the next Monday (6th Sep). Changes list:

Minor bugfixes:

- RivaTuner's driver-level color schemes are no longer lost after creating at least one non-standard color scheme via the ForceWare's control panel applet.

What's new:

- Added ForceWare 65.xx - 66.xx driver families support.
- Added databases for the ForceWare 61.76, 61.77, 65.91 and 66.00 drivers for Windows 2000/XP.
- Added PCI-E NV40 series display adapters support.
- A lot of NV40 / R420 specific enhancements, new diagnostic and tuning features. Thanks to Andrew Woribiew for providing ATI RADEON X800PRO and NVIDIA GeForce 6800 samples.
- Added active pixel pipelines / vertex processors count detection for NV40 based display adapters.
- Updated bundled NVInfo v1.3 DOS utility. Now NVInfo supports NV40 series and can display diagnostic info including active pixel pipelines / vertex processors count. This feature allows you to verify NV40 based display adapter right from the bootable floppy before purchasing it.
- Updated bundled NVStrap v1.5 driver. Now the driver supports NV40 GPU series and provides NV40 owners previously available AGP SBA / AGP FW and PCI DeviceID strapping settings as well as absolutely new unique feature specific for this GPU family - custom graphics processor configuration panel. This panel allows you to alter an amount of active pixel pipelines and vertex processors of NV40 GPU, so any GeForce 6800 GT / Ultra board can be turned to GeForce 6800 or GeForce 6800 LE via disabling required amount of pixel pipelines and vertex processors at software level. Furthermore, some GeForce 6800 owners will be able to unlock software masked pixel pipelines and vertex processors and greatly boost performance. Take a note that both pixel pipelines and vertex processors on GeForce 6800 (LE) boards can be locked either at hardware or at software level. RivaTuner will be able to unlock them in the second case only.
- Updated "NVIDIA VGA BIOS information" diagnostic report category for NV40 GPU based display adapters:
- Added performance level table decoding. Performance level specific core / memory clocks and core voltage are now displayed on NV40 based boards too. Take a note that wrongly voltmodded VGA BIOS'es are also already available in the net, so you may use the information displayed in RivaTuner to validate any software voltmodded BIOS. All NV3x+ software voltage mod details discussed in RivaTuner's FAQ before, also fully apply to NV40 GPUs, so please refer to RivaTuner's FAQ to get more information on it.
- Added GPU units mask info for NV40 GPU based boards. This mask tells you if VGA BIOS contains any softmasked pixel pipelines and vertex processors and can be used for fast detecting softmoddable boards.
- Removed obsolete VCO frequency limits info for NV40 GPU based boards.
- Updated "NVIDIA specific display adapter information" diagnostic report category. Now besides hardwired ID RivaTuner displays ROM softstrapped PCI DeviceID on NV3X+ based boards.
- Now during displaying "NVIDIA VGA BIOS information" diagnostic report category RivaTuner reads VGA BIOS contents directly from flash ROM. This feature was implemented in order to access NV40's performance level tables, located outside ROM copy accessible via standard ISA address space.
- Added DVC control for NV40 based boards.
- Added RADEON 9550 series support.
- Updated SoftR9x00 and ATIOverclockingAntiprotection patch scripts for the Catalyst 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 beta for Windows 2000/XP.
- Added fan duty cycle monitoring for LM63 capable R360 and R420 based boards with reference cooling system. Take a note that it is impossible to monitor the real fan speed on these boards because of lack of feedback between fan's tachometer output and sensor chip, so monitored fan duty cycle is a target fan speed programmed by the sensor, but not the real one. Actual speed may be lower due to fan malfunction and other factors.
- Added fan speed control for LM63 capable R360 and R420 based boards with reference cooling system. Now you may use either default temperature controlled dynamic fan speed mode, or improve your R360/R420 cooling at the cost of noise due to fixed 100% fan speed mode.
- Added detailed memory timings decryption for R420 based display adapters.
- Added DDR3 memory type detection for R420 based display adapters.
- Added command line interface for saving VGA BIOS image for all supported NVIDIA display adapters and ATI R300+ based display adapters. Use /BI command line switch to extract and save VGA BIOS image in a file. In addition to that, RivaTuner also provides previously undocumented /BD command line switch, allowing you to save dump of VGA BIOS stored in memory. Take a note that this feature works even with unsupported display adapters (e.g. Matrox), but the dump created with this command line switch is not flashable and can be used for scientific needs (e.g. reverse engineering) only.
- Updated RivaTunerEx.sys driver incorporates new IOCTL, allowing RivaTuner to execute some portions of code in kernel mode. Since this version RivaTuner executes all low-level I2C access code in kernel mode to minimize risk of collision with other applications accessing ATI I2C bus at low level. However, the previous user mode I2C access method can be also activated with ATII2CKernelModeAccess registry entry.
- Improved graphics processor core detection scheme for both NVIDIA and ATI display adapters. Now RivaTuner.cfg file contains user customizable PCI DeviceID indexed table of supported graphics processors. This will not make RivaTuner forward compatible with future graphics processors, but will greatly simplify process of adding support of new display adapters based on supported GPUs.
- Updated monitor manufacturers list.
- Improved database format. Now string registry entries may also use interpretators of ENUM type.
- Now all RivaTuner's command line interfaces can provide an access to non-primary display adapters.
- Easter eggs updates. Added hidden command line interface for AND, OR and XOR based GPU registers modification commands.
- FAQ updated.
- Minor UI changes and improvements.
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Stay tuned

Unwinder, Aug 30, 2004

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lalla Guest

You are the King, Unwinder

lalla, Aug 30, 2004

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6th of Sept cant come around soon enough! There are going to be a lot of downloads of this, methinks. Nice to finally have a release date. Thanks Unwinder!

fubar2003, Aug 30, 2004

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Finally we know when the new version is released. Great new features. How does the new pipeline activation works. Can I choose it in the "Power User" option with the script patch function or is there an additional feature like the screenshots in the preview tests showed ?

tarantino666, Aug 30, 2004

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do you already have beta tester for cloesed beta?

Andy2211, Aug 30, 2004

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KOKOSCHINSKY Guest

Homage a Unwinder,
You Beaut Tweaking Tool "RIVA TUNER",
you turned my GF4 TI 4600 in a Quadro 4 900XGL,my FX 5900 XT in a QUADRO FX 3000,
nVidia Architects would you please be unified and pay your does!
ALEXEY, they shall appreciate!(hope they know what unified means)
regards koko

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KOKOSCHINSKY, Aug 30, 2004

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Originally posted by tarantino666
How does the new pipeline activation works.
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Originally posted by Unwinder
- Updated bundled NVStrap v1.5 driver. Now the driver supports NV40 GPU series and provides NV40 owners previously available AGP SBA / AGP FW and PCI DeviceID strapping settings as well as absolutely new unique feature specific for this GPU family - custom graphics processor configuration panel. This panel allows you to alter an amount of active pixel pipelines and vertex processors of NV40 GPU...

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It will be a new panel - "custom graphics processor configuration panel"
- located somewhere around the old "NVStrap driver" panel...!

Originally posted by Unwinder
Take a note that both pixel pipelines and vertex processors on GeForce 6800 (LE) boards can be locked either at hardware or at software level. RivaTuner will be able to unlock them in the second case only.
Click to expand...

It would be nice if all 6800 (LE) owners could then participate in a new thread,
where they posted the results of their experiments of activating the extra pixel pipelines and vertex processors...!!

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clokkevi, Aug 30, 2004

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Hope the scripts don't get obsolete as the CATALYSTs 4.9 will be available in early September.

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Good news.
I bet monday will be a slow day for guru3d as all the bandwidth is sucked by RT.

Kakaru2, Aug 30, 2004

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Very nice Unwinder, I'm sure everyone here greatly appreciates the time and effort you've put into Rivatuner.
Thankyou very much.

Darkoz, Aug 31, 2004

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GeniusLoci Guest

Good, not that I have one of the "can be modded" cards (/rr1540 returns "bad one" for the Axle 6800 , I'll see what it'll say about ASUS's).

A lot of new goodies I see . I wish to be one of the beta testers

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Unwinder Ancient Guru Staff Member

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Originally posted by GeniusLoci
Good, not that I have one of the "can be modded" cards (/rr1540 returns "bad one" for the Axle 6800 , I'll see what it'll say about ASUS's).

A lot of new goodies I see . I wish to be one of the beta testers
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Guys, I repeat once again. There is no way to tell if the board is "good" or "bad" looking at /rr1540 report. the report just shows which vertex and pixel units are currently active. Nothing more, nothing less. And disabled units can be masked at both hardware and software levels.

Unwinder, Aug 31, 2004

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GeniusLoci Guest

Sorry, I've tried to read the whole ~40 page topic below and I saw this somewhere...had no nerves to read it all

I'm glad it's not true tnx

GeniusLoci, Aug 31, 2004

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SO how will us 12 pipe 6800 owners know if we will be able to unlock the extra 4 pipes? just try it? will it hurt the card if its not succesfful?? thanks. Im a n00b to RT

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Originally posted by PCBliss
SO how will us 12 pipe 6800 owners know if we will be able to unlock the extra 4 pipes? just try it? will it hurt the card if its not succesfful?? thanks. Im a n00b to RT
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yes, the easiest way will be to try the new version of rivatuner when it comes out. then you'll know if the extra pipelines on your card are masked through software or hardware. if it is hardware, RT won't help you, if it is software, RT will allow you to enable the extra pipelines. However, if the extra 4 pipelines in your card are not fully functional, it's possible you'll get artifacts and such with the 16 enabled. But don't worry, it is reversible, since this is a softmod. you just have to disable the 4 extra pipelines and all is good again

gafa, Sep 1, 2004

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Unwinder Ancient Guru Staff Member

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Originally posted by gafa
However, if the extra 4 pipelines in your card are not fully functional, it's possible you'll get artifacts and such with the 16 enabled.
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You simply won't be able to unlock malfunctioning pixel / vertex units. They are masked at hardware level.

Unwinder, Sep 1, 2004

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so there's no real risk of a borked card if it dosen't work?

Ninjapilot

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I'm just wondering if the four deactivated pipelines on the ASUS V9999GE can be activated using RivaTuner, because if it is possible it would probably out-perform other 6800GTs as it has the DDR3 RAMs of the GT version and a higher overclocking potential (to core clock of 430+Mhz). Any thoughts?

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thanks for the hard work unwinder.

zehoo, Sep 2, 2004

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Yea I'd love to know about the ASUS GE too. This guy here :http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=101299
reckons they all come with fully working pipes.
Unwinder, have you tested your S**t hot app on an ASUS GE?
Thanks for all your work!

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