NF Tools by Nabil Fathi

With all due respect to the OP, this is enough for me to steer clear.

Thank you for looking into this a bit Unwinder.

 

I think this might same guy that got banned from Guru3d about 1-2 years ago for reasons I can't remember anymore.

 

i got more TDR with this and this is supposed to prevent TDR, i don't see a 50% improvent in games/applications.

The rest is just placebo this need in depth testing because i never had any issues with nvidia drivers so i practically don't see any improvement with this.

 

LOL I just saw chatter about this on asus rog forums and was surprised there wasn't a thread over here. I'm on the same boat. Cannot see / spot any difference.

 

It's the same guy who claimed to have a method of enabling G-Sync on non G-sync hardware a while back and got his blog shut down (He claimed by NVIDIA for exposing their secrets, I have my doubts), and iirc, all he managed was to get the G-sync logo to show up on non G-Sync hardware, something like that, don't think it actually worked like he claimed, can't remember 100%

 

yeah ok...

 

I think we all need to say well clear of this, and thanks to unwinder for chasing up this chap as in regards to Afterburner being or containing bloatware .

Its great when we have our very own experts here at Guru3d and won't be fooled by some guys false claims and software that for all we know may be damaging in some way .

 

new post

https://goo.gl/cq7SLw

 

What evidence is there that the author has "... a strong access and knowledge of the Kernel Driver/GPU and Kernel OS to understand how process are executed and what can benefit from this."

From this I must assume he's using both Microsoft and Nvidia developer tools? Frankly the post was a long winded missive which could have been summed up in far fewer words: Trust me, but I can't really document or explain the reason and/or expect repeatable results from using this tool.

 

I just installed this on a Virtual Machine, with ProcMon running, and here's what the installer does when you select "NVIDIA":
http://pastebin.com/raw/38C2Ksq2

And "Intel":
http://pastebin.com/raw/1rhKcfWW

And finally, "AMD":
http://pastebin.com/raw/r8mutiKz

 

So basically, only thing this does is adding a lot of registry entries which may or may not do anything at all?

 

Here play with these reg tweaks from 2006 lol

;********************XTreme-G Tweaks by TweaksRUs********************
;
HKR,, TexturePrecache, %REG_DWORD%,1
HKR,, UMAFastFrameBuffer, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, UseCompressedModeFormat, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_10491844, %REG_BINARY%,80,80,65,27
HKR,, D3d_16997821, %REG_BINARY%,74,72,95,99
HKR,, D3d_18078188, %REG_BINARY%,16,49,41,03
HKR,, D3d_19521893, %REG_BINARY%,52,19,25,91
HKR,, D3d_20466189, %REG_BINARY%,54,91,25,31
HKR,, D3d_22355415, %REG_BINARY%,25,12,13,50
HKR,, D3d_24464826, %REG_BINARY%,65,28,81,23
HKR,, D3d_30913648, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_36759435, %REG_BINARY%,01,91,82,24
HKR,, D3d_40792312, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_44013233, %REG_BINARY%,71,13,53,91
HKR,, D3d_46205529, %REG_BINARY%,55,49,20,88
HKR,, D3d_48484658, %REG_BINARY%,12,67,25,91
HKR,, D3d_52971801, %REG_BINARY%,00,10,0c,3c
HKR,, D3d_54082152, %REG_BINARY%,00,1c,ac,3c
HKR,, D3d_56255736, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,12,01
HKR,, D3d_60461791, %REG_BINARY%,92,52,92,60
HKR,, D3d_62225341, %REG_BINARY%,98,68,44,92
HKR,, D3d_64907714, %REG_BINARY%,98,68,44,92
HKR,, D3d_88481200, %REG_BINARY%,ff,ff,ff,ff
HKR,, D3d_92521178, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,10
HKR,, D3d_94118636, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_AutoMipMapMethod, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_DefaultSwapInterval, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_DXVAEnable, %REG_BINARY%,04,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_MipMapLevels, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_QualityEnhancements, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, D3d_ValidateZMethod, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_01887890, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_1190801a, %REG_BINARY%,c4,00,53,a9
HKR,, Ogl_19723457, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_563A95F1, %REG_BINARY%,43,bd,3a,41
HKR,, Ogl_95282304, %REG_BINARY%,06,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_AnisoQuality, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_BufferRegionExt, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_BufferRegionUseVidMem, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_CmdBufMinWords, %REG_BINARY%,80,09,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_CmdBufSizeWords, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,04,00
HKR,, Ogl_DefaultLogAniso, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_DefaultSwapInterval, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_DLMemorySpaceEnables, %REG_BINARY%,03,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_DLStagingBufferSizeWords, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,24,00
HKR,, Ogl_EnableForce16BitZ, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_EnableTripleBuffer, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_FlatPanelScalerQuality, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_FlippingControl, %REG_BINARY%,02,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_ForceGeForce, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_ForceGenericCPU, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_ForceMultitexture, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_FSAAMode, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_MaxFramesAllowed, %REG_BINARY%,02,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_MaxNVAccel, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_MaxPCITexHeapSize, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,10
HKR,, Ogl_NV15Alines, %REG_BINARY%,02,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_PalettedTexInVidMem, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_QualityEnhancements, %REG_BINARY%,00,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_RenderQualityFlags, %REG_BINARY%,08,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_S3TCQuality, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_TargetFlushCount, %REG_BINARY%,10,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_TexClampBehavior, %REG_BINARY%,02,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_TexLODBias, %REG_BINARY%,ff,ff,ff,ff
HKR,, Ogl_TexMemorySpaceEnables, %REG_BINARY%,03,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_TexSharpen, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, Ogl_TexturePrecache, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
HKR,, D3DOGL_74095213, %REG_BINARY%,01,00,00,00
;

 

Here is the list from King-dubs nvidia log, made it a tad easier to read, I did leave out dWord values tho


DelayBlankPolicy
vrrVblankExtension
RmDpuVrr
EnableCheckSyncPolarity
PowerSaverHsyncOn
GsyncTimingOptimizationPolicy
RML2MaxWaysSysmem
ModsMode
EnableResetEngine
RmL2CleanFbPull
RMEnableSMECC
EnableSegmentPreservation
SystemMemoryForNonMigratableSegment
DisableNonMigratableSegment
WDDMv2ReserveVASpaceSizeForNvFBC
WDDMv2InvalidatePDEsForReserveVA
WDDMv2EnableSLI SUCCESS
WDDMv2DisableRenderGDI
WDDMv2ForceInvalidateAllCpuCache
WDDMv2Use64KBPages
WDDMv2EnableGdiBroadcast
WDDMv2EnableSLILinkMirroredWAR
WDDMv2OSDualPteSupported
WDDMv2DisableSlowCePagingWar
WDDMv2ReplaceKindAtTransferVirtual
WDDMv2DisableBasicPrimeForGPUVA
WDDMv2DisableSLIVirtualChannels
WDDMv2EnableFermiWDDMv2
WDDMv2UseUserMetadataForPromotion
WDDMv2ForceEngineResetForPageFault
WDDMv2KmdHighAddrReserve
DisableKmRenderBoost
DisableKmRenderStage
DisableKmRender
RmDistRenderMax
RMEnableHdmi2
RMEnableOveclockingAllPstates
DisableOverclockedPstates
RMForceLockedClocksMode
RMEnableClk
RMPcieLinkSpeed
EnablePerformanceMode
RMMaximizePteTableSize
EnableSystemMemoryTiling
EnableMemoryTiling
UseUncachedPCIMappings
RMEnableVmm
RMGpuCacheEnable
DisableAsyncPstates
EnableForceIgpuDgpuFromUI
EnableCoreVoltage
RMNoECCFuseCheck
EnableComputeReset
RMDisableAsyncMemScrub
RMOverrideP0Gpc2ClkMaxFreqKHz
EnableDx12OnMsHybrid
EnableDx12OnOptimus
EnableHybridPerfSLI
EnableHybridMode
DisableCudaContextPreemption
RMGsyncTswapRdyHi
LimitSegmentsTo4GB
Disable4GBTAGLimit
WDDMv2PresentNotifyForFlipEx
EnableComputeAsync
EnableMClkSlowdown
RMClkSlowDown
EnableXGPUSupport
AllowdGPUPassthrough
CUDA_MAX
EnableSurroundOnMobile
ForceVrrTearingMode
VRRAlwaysOn
ForceVrrEdidBlock
EnableVrrFrameSmoothing
EnableVrrOneshotMode
EnableVrrModeFilter
EnableVrrExtendedSca
vrrVblankExtension
EnableVrrLowFreqFrameTimeEstimation
DSREnableNB
RMOnDemandVblank
RmPanelSelfRefresh
EarlyMonitorSync
Vblank
RmDisableAggressiveVblank
dxgiSwapChainDesc
dxgiOutputDesc
CreateDXGIFactory
CreateDXGIFactory1
DXVA_RESERVED9
DXVA_RESERVED10
DXVA_RESERVED11
DXVA_RESERVED12
DXVA_RESERVED13
DXVA_RESERVED14
DXVA_RESERVED16
DXVA_RESERVED17
DXVA_RESERVED18
DXVA_RESERVED19
DXVA_RESERVED20
DXVA_RESERVED21
DXVA_RESERVED22
DXVA_RESERVED23
DXVA_RESERVED24
DXVA_RESERVED25
DXVA_RESERVED26
DXVA_RESERVED27
DXVA_RESERVED28
DXVA_RESERVED29
DXVA_RESERVED30
DXVA_RESERVED32
DXVA_FILMGRAINBUFFER
DXVACOMPBUFFER_MAX

 

Seems that way

 

Is the guy whom did the Omega drivers still around? I wouldn't be surprised if these are the same tweaks I might dig a little more during the week, if I'm bored as hell and compare the differences.
Obviously stuff is happening, some claim more smoothness and others get TRD etc. It feels like he's just applied all the tweaks he can find and it's having different effects on different GPU's. Perhaps that's why nVidia didn't include them, some GPU generations might have trouble and not be stable
I'd stay clear of this rubbish until more is known personally. However I'm still curious, as we all love to tweak to perfection don't we?!

UPDATE; Just looking at the install and it uses iscrypt.dll and shfold.dll , it looks like it's doing more than just registry tweaks... :bang: but what?!

 

Nope not Omega tweaks at all. I used to have them I don't think I do anymore.

 

A couple of important questions:

* Of those registry keys, which ones are already there by default and which are new? Are those that are there by default removed when NFTools is uninstalled?

* The author made a note that it adds an extra framebuffer into the chain, this would indeed help smooth out stuttering. Is anything else installed apart from registry entries, a driver or injector?

* He made note that Win10 and SLI systems would benefit. Anyone noticed a difference here?

That's very likely just the components of the packaging application he used.

 

Also interested whether his uninstaller completely reverts changes upon deletion.

 

Unsure if it's effective, but it looks safe according to this.

 

Yeah, to have that kind of access to begin with you'd actually have to pay for and license NDA protected SDKs. The NVAPI SDK that is free only has a partial amount of information when it comes to a lot of things.