RivaTuner v2.08

According to old good Murphy’s law I’ve received my GeForce 9600GT sample right after releasing version v2.07 to public. Due to lack of 9600GT sample during developing v2.07 I declared G94 support in this version as experimental and was not able to provide you all planned G94 related features in v2.07. But now I have this baby installed for a couple days and I’ve already squeezed from it everything I wanted. So I thought that it will be a good idea to release a new containing all 9600GT related features, which were planned but were not included in v2.07. Also, new release will give some more auto fan control tweaks to AMD 38x0 owners. After v2.07 release we found that besides misconfigured automatic fan control AMD also managed to misconfigure fan acoustic management system calibration in some VGA BIOS images, and new version will help AMD 38x0 owners affected by this problem to tweak and fix acoustic management system related parameters too.
Please don’t expect more changes from v2.08, the rest ones are minor and include support for new drivers launched after v2.07 (ForceWare 169.44 and Catalyst 8.3) and couple bugfixes.

New version is online, changes list includes:


Minor bugfixes:

- RivaTuner no longer crashes when RivaTuner module activation launcher item is scheduled to run at Windows startup.
- Fixed association between low-level refresh overrider rules and target display adapter, broken due to low-level profiles association related changes in the previous version.
- Minor UI and localization fixes.

What's new:

- Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Added database for ForceWare 169.44.
- Added Catalyst 8.3 drivers detection.
- Updated Catalyst 8.3 certified SoftR9x00 patch script (for Windows 2000/XP drivers only).
- Updated PCI DeviceID database for ATI graphics processors. Added PCI DeviceID for RADEON HD 3850 AGP.
- Improved G94 graphics processors support. Thanks to Jurgen in 't Zandt @ Point of View for providing NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT sample for testing. The list of G94 related improvements includes:
- Added low-level fan control support for integrated PWM controllers of G94 graphics processors.
- Improved driver-level fan control support for integrated PWM controllers of G94 graphics processors. Now RivaTuner can be used for switching between driver-level automatic and driver-level direct fan control modes on GeForce 9600GT series.
- Improved RV6xx graphics processors family support. With this version RivaTuner continues tradition of providing workarounds for bugs existing in fan controller calibration routines of many reference AMD HD 38x0 BIOS images. The list of new workarounds and enhancements includes:
Extended list of tweakable automatic fan speed control rule parameters for RV6xx fan controllers. Now besides editing previously available thermal lookup and temperature transfer formula parameters RivaTuner also allows editing parameters of RV6xx fan controller's acoustic management system. Acoustic management related parameters include PWM hysteresis and PWM ramp settings, which are also improperly calibrated in certain AMD HD 38x0 BIOS images.
- Now RivaTuner forcibly resets fan controller's PWM hysteresis settings when adjusting fan speed in fixed mode. This enhancement provides fine fan speed adjustment in fixed fan speed mode instead of stepwise fan speed adjustment mode on the systems affected by erroneously programmed PWM hysteresis.
- Changed representation format for temperature transfer function's T slope parameter. Now the parameter is displayed and edited in percents instead of PWM ticks to simplify transfer formula readability.
- Minor UI changes and improvements.

 

AMD HD 3850/3870 fan controller database - must read thread for 3850/3870 owners.

 

It applies to all RV670 based adapters. And it is not model specific bug, it is BIOS version specific bug.

 

You must install the update with signed drivers, which is included in the distributive.

 

Using search costs users nothing:

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=255970

 

Yes, it is normal. That fluctuations are caused by PWM ramp mode when your temeprature is approaching the threshold defined in the thermal table. For example, if you define:

...
50% for 50C
60% for 60C
...

and your temperature is crossing 60C, fan speed will start increasing from 50% to 60% by 1% per sampling period then the temperature will go below 60C due to fan speed increase and fan speed will start decreasing etc. These are the fluctuations you are seeing:

e.g. 50%, 51%, 52%,51%,50%,49% etc

You may try to get rid of it by setting PWM ramp on (but not PWM ramp) to 0, in this case fan controller will immediatly switch to the new duty cucle from the table without increasing it softly. So you'll see:

50%, 60%, 50%

Also, you may try to increase PWM hysteresis just a bit, it will also eliminate the fluctiations.

 

That is by design, if you try to fit too long string in the tray icon - it will be truncated and truncation marker vertical "..." will be added to it. ReadMe explicitly mentions it.

Nothing weird, different digits have different width.