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My apologies, I'm currently doing some urgent changes in other commercial project, so 15.8 launch date will be probably shifted on Monday 5th.

Unwinder, Nov 30, 2005

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Originally posted by Unwinder
My apologies, I'm currently doing some urgent changes in other commercial project, so 15.8 launch date will be probably shifted on Monday 5th.
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dont worry

we are waiting
thx

andersondiaz, Nov 30, 2005

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Re: RivaTuner 15.8 is on the way!

Great work!!
I plan to buy some new VGA so I´am enjoying for RT use, I loved it on my olg geForce.

zilabo, Nov 30, 2005

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Re: RivaTuner 15.8 is on the way!

Today it is 30 November .

When comes the URL for downloading Rivatuner 2.0 RC 15.8 ??

I am ready for testing

Originally posted by Unwinder
Hi guys,
I'm glad to tell you that 15.8 development is finished and closed beta testing has been started today. Official release is scheduled on 30.11.2005. Changes list includes:

Minor bugfixes:

- Fixed *.RTP / *.RTR / *.RTS files shell integration under Windows XP x64 edition.
- Fake DDR detection algorithm is no longer forced by default on GeForce 7800 series.

What's new:

- Added ForceWare 81.xx and 82.xx driver families support.
- Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare driver families. Added databases for ForceWare 81.26, 81.33, 81.82, 81.84, 81.87, 81.94 and 82.10 drivers.
- Added Catalyst 5.10 and 5.11 drivers detection.
- Updated Catalyst 5.10 and 5.11 certified SoftR9x00 patch script (32-bit versions only).
- Added support for mainboards with more than 8 physically addressable PCI-compatible slots (e.g. ASUS P5WD2)
- Revised registry access layer code:
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry root can be accessed via IO driver now.
- The list of keys with driver restricted access is no longer hardcoded to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Unwinder\RivaTuner and can be redefined via the configuration file.
- Improved low-level refresh overrider module. Added injection based refresh override mode. Opposing to the previously available refresh override modes performing refresh override after actual display mode change, new refresh override mode allows RivaTuner to intercept any attempts of display mode change and override target refresh rate without allowing OS to set requested refresh. This results in improving compatibility with some display mode change sensitive applications.
- Added X1800 / X1600 / X1300 series support. Now all RivaTuner's low-level features including overclocking, low-level diagnostics, monitoring and gamma correction are available on newest ATI graphics processors. Thanks to Peter Yeung @ HIS for providing X1800XL sample for testing. Please refer to 'Known issues' section to get more details on RADEON X1000 family support.
- Improved GeForce 7800 series support. This versions introduces a lot of new GeForce 7800GT/TX specific features, including new low-level tuning options, driver-level Direct3D/OpenGL tuning options, improved low-level hardware diagnostics and monitoring improvements. Thanks to Andrew Worobiew and AIC willing to remain anonymous for providing GeForce 7800GTX sample.
- Improved low-level fan control module:
- Low-level fan control tab is no longer exclusively available on LM63 capable display adapters. Now low-level fan control is also available on display adapters equipped with F76363S (some HIS RADEON X800 series), LM64 (RADEON X1800 series) and ADT7473 (GeForce 7800GTX series).
- It is no longer assumed that automatic fan speed control mode is enabled by defaults. Now fan control module saves state of fan controller during enabling fan control.
- Added low-level fan profiles. Combining with RivaTuner's flexible monitoring thresholds programming technique, low-level fan profiles allow you to implement many useful dynamic fan control techniques (e.g. independent 2D/3D fan speeds).
- Improved driver-level fan control module:
- Added driver-level fan profiles. Combining with RivaTuner's flexible monitoring thresholds programming technique, driver-level fan profiles allow you to implement many useful dynamic fan control techniques (e.g. temperature controlled fan speeds, even if your display adapter is not equipped with temperature based fan speed controller).
- Added "Defaults" button for resetting driver-level 2D / LowPower3D / 3D fan speeds to defaults defined in VGA BIOS.
Improved driver-level overclocking module:
- Added driver-level overclocking profiles. Combining with RivaTuner's flexible monitoring thresholds programming technique, driver-level overclocking profiles allow you to alter ForceWare's 2D/3D clock frequency profiling system and implement alternate overclocking techniques (e.g. implement 2D/3D memory clock frequency separation, temperature based overclocking etc).
- Improved Direct3D / OpenGL tuning options for ForceWare drivers:
- Direct3D Quality / Performance texture filtering preferences have been moved from Direct3D tab to new separated Direct3D Intellisample tab.
- Added Direct3D negative LOD bias clamping option.
- Added options for controlling anisotropic / trilinear filtering optimizations to both Direct3D and OpenGL Intellisample tabs.
- Added transparent antialiasing controls for GeForce 7800 series.
Improved profile manager for the ForceWare's own application profiling engine:
- Added ability of editing profiles containing more than 32 characters.
- Added ability of associating color scheme with a profile.
- Regular launcher item editor UI has been changed slightly to accommodate newly introduced fan / overclocking profiles association. Now you may associate low-level / driver-level fan profile or driver-level overclocking profile with a launcher item and apply desired settings during application runtime only, as well as create items for quick activating desired profile.
- Improved built-in registry editor. Added an ability of viewing / editing variable size binary values.
- Improved hardware monitoring plugins engine:
- Added hardware monitoring plugin activation wizard. Now each plugin contains configuration file with a database of display adapters, which can retrieve useful information via this plugin. During the first hardware monitoring module activation, the wizard will check the list of currently active plugins and automatically prompt you to enable all inactive the plugins, which can provide useful information specific to your hardware configuration.
- All the sources provided by a plugin are automatically enabled now after activating the plugin module.
- Drastically reduced CPU overhead during plugin API functions calls due to global precached hardware access layer object usage instead of dynamically created hardware access layer objects in the previous version.
- Improved hardware monitoring plugins API.
- Added functions for R/O access to display adapter's VGA BIOS.
Improved hotkey manager. Added optional hotkey handler emulation via low-level keyboard hooks.
- Added /M command line switch for setting marker at the current position on hardware monitoring graphs. This feature allows you to mark some critical moments in the log (e.g. the moment of rendering artifacts appearance for subsequent thermal statistics analysis).
- Updated IO driver. Added timeouts for I2C transaction completion wait loops to IOCTLs for ATI I2C access.
- Undated NVStrap driver v1.10:
- Added NV42 GPU support.
- Updated RivaTunerStatisticsServer v1.5.0 bundled utility:
- The server's properties window is created in inactive state now to prevent the server from stealing input focus from certain 3D applications during the server's startup. This feature is useful when the server's launch is bound to a hotkey and it ensures that the server's runtime load will not cause 3D application minimization due to loss of input focus.
- Now the server is automatically injected in foreground application during startup.
- Added option for OSD coordinate space selection. By default the server uses 3D application's rendering viewport coordinate space. However certain applications (e.g. Codename Panzers: Phase II) can use multiple viewports during frame rendering. In this case OSD coordinate space origin will be located in the top-left corner f the last viewport, defined during frame rendering, which may not match with top-left corner of screen. In this case you may use new option to force different OSD coordinate space usage.
- Added benchmark statistics recording ability. Now the server allows client applications to initiate framerate statistics recording either via command line or via shared memory and to stop statistics and flush it to file per client's request at desired moment of time. The statistics can be optionally displayed in the server's OSD, and it includes:
- Total benchmarking time and total amount of rendered frames.
Global average framerate (total amount of rendered frames divided by total benchmarking time).
- Minimum instantaneous framerate (instantaneous framerate is measured once per second, minimum value is recorded)
- Average instantaneous framerate (instantaneous framerate is measured once per second, then all the measurements are averaged)
- Maximum instantaneous framerate (instantaneous framerate is measured once per second, minimum value is recorded)
- Improved low-level hardware monitoring module:
- Improved hardware monitoring threshold engine:
- Added ability of associating launcher items with threshold upward / downward crossing events. This feature allows you to associate desired event (e.g. critical temperature threshold crossing in upward direction) with any combination of profiles available in RivaTuner (e.g. boost fan speed to maximum with fan profile and downclock display adapter via overclocking profile).
- Added ability of defining color of each threshold on the graph.
- Added multiple tray icons mode for monitoring data sources displayed in tray icon. Now the sources' 'Show .. in tray icon' options are no longer mutually exclusive and multiple data sources may be simultaneously displayed in tray icons. Take a note that you may also activate previously available single tray icon mode using DisableMultipleTrayIconMode registry entry.
- Now you can click a source's tray icon to get quick access to the corresponding monitoring data source's properties. Please take a note that this feature is available only in multiple tray icons mode.
- Tray icon text color customization option is no longer power user oriented and is now available in the source's propertied dialog.
- Updated ADT7473.dll plugin
- Added 'Fan duty cycle' data source, allowing you to see target temperature controlled fan speed, programmed by fan controller.
- Added fan stop case detection for 'Fan speed' data source.
- Updated VidMem.dll plugin:
- Added 'Non-local videomemory usage' data source.
- Added 'Videomemory usage' data source.
- Updated W83L785R.dll plugin:
- Added F75373S-styled user extendable voltage calibration database.
- Added 'Fan speed' data source.
- Added LM63.dll plugin, supporting LM63 and clone devices (F75363S and LM64). The plugin provides 'Core temperature', 'Ambient temperature', 'Fan duty cycle' and 'Fan speed' data sources. Please take a note that 'Fan speed' data source is only available if the fan's tachometer output is physically connected to the sensor's tachometer input (e.g. RADEON X1800 series).
- Added VT1103.dll plugin for reading diagnostic information from Volterra VT1103 voltage (used on ATI RADEON X1800 series). The plugin provides 'Voltage regulator output' (target output voltage defined by voltage regulator's VID pins), 'Voltage regulator temperature' and 'Voltage regulator current' data sources. Please take a note that there are no public VT1103 datasheets available, and VT1103 VID table used by ATI's own voltage control tools is simply plain wrong (viva ATI software development team again ), that is why the plugin gives you an ability of redefining VID -> voltage mappings. The plugin's database contains ATI's own erroneous voltage mapping table and corrected voltage table created using real Vcore measurements for each VID.
- Added NVThermalDiode plugin. This plugin provides 'Core temperature' data source on the systems with on-die thermal diode capable GPUs (NV43, NV44 and NV47). Now GeForce 6600 owners no longer need to patch VGA BIOS for thermal monitoring unlocking, the plugin is able to retrieve temperature from on-die thermal diode even on locked VGA BIOS.
- Improved graphics subsystem diagnostic report module:
- Revised diagnostic report text format. Please take due to these changes you cannot directly compare this version's diagnostic reports with reports captured using the previous versions of RivaTuner.
- Added "Core VID" graph for NV41 and NV47 GPUs.
- Added NV47 specific VID interpretators to the database.
- Added thermal table dumping ability for BIT based VGA BIOSes. Now RivaTuner is able to display thermal compensation (sensor specific delta between temperature reported by sensor and approximated core temperature), on-die thermal diode calibration parameters (thermal diode offset and thermal diode gain) and core / ambient thermal thresholds.
- Added ability of defining GPU family specific register dumps. This feature was added special for ATI R5xxx family dianostics, and it allows using different registers sets or different naming schemes of the same registers depending on GPU family. Please take a note that currently the names of R5xxx specific registers are encoded in RivaTuner's diagnostic reports to prevent info stealing by some third party developers. I also warn some unethical guys behind ATI oriented tweaking/overclocking tools, that all R5xxx related hardware access code is watermarked with dummy GPU registers reads/write. So please use your own minds instead of cloning, my eyes are on you
- Updated SDK:
- Added LM63.dll plugin source code.
- Added VT1103.dll plugin source code. This plugin demonstrates access to VT1103 voltage regulator.
- Added NVThermalDiode.dll plugin source code. This plugin demonstrates access to on-die thermal diode of the latest NVIDIA GPUs. Additionally, the plugin demonstrates usage of newly introduced VGA BIOS and GPU registers access functions.
- FAQ updated.
- Minor UI changes and improvements.

Stay tuned!
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plextor10000, Nov 30, 2005

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Re: Re: RivaTuner 15.8 is on the way!

Originally posted by plextor10000
When comes the URL for downloading Rivatuner 2.0 RC 15.8 ?
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If you had ventured to read two posts up (a few hours before yours), 5/12/05 is the updated estimate.

If you have ever developed software in your spare time while holding down a 24h/day regular job, you will fully appreciate that "Rome was not built in a day."

Now go and download Google Earth.

SolidModel, Nov 30, 2005

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No problem to wait some time, i really appreciate the tool, always use it for testing.

I know software is not build in one day

plextor10000, Nov 30, 2005

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What about the problem in Geforce 6200 GPU's?

They are being detected as NV4A instead NV44A. Secondly the memory bus is detected as 0-bit instead of 64-bit and thirdly the Clock Speeds are'nt detected properly....

Another Request from me would be if you could find out the reason behind the Overclocking Bug in the Geforce 6200 Cards.... even rivatuner fails to overclock??

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NeViLLe, Nov 30, 2005

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Originally posted by NeViLLe
What about the problem in Geforce 6200 GPU's?

They are being detected as NV4A instead NV44A. Secondly the memory bus is detected as 0-bit instead of 64-bit and thirdly the Clock Speeds are'nt detected properly....

Another Request from me would be if you could find out the reason behind the Overclocking Bug in the Geforce 6200 Cards.... even rivatuner fails to overclock??
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NV44A is in 15.8, forgot t mention it in release note. But stress test failure preventing you from o/c has nothing common with "bug".

Unwinder, Nov 30, 2005

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Is today still the 'official' release date unwinder, or has it been delayed?

Also, let me know if you ever need another beta tester now or in the future........

S_Kinton, Nov 30, 2005

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no, a few posts ago, unwinder said that it has been postponed to 5/12

kwak, Nov 30, 2005

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Oh ok, my bad

S_Kinton, Nov 30, 2005

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This might help you guys out in the mean time..

click here

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My god. couldn't we o/c 6200 in riva tuner 15.8 ? Only 81.26 driver can o/c it. Others aren't working. is there any method for o/c in 6200? Sorry for my bad english..

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Originally posted by PhoenixProjects
This might help you guys out in the mean time..

click here
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LOL People should make more link jokes, they work well as you have to wait for the punchline to hit as you follow the link

Pepperoni7, Nov 30, 2005

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I'm sure glad I got one of the older NV43 6200's. I'm not having any of the problems you other guys are having.

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I have found this text:

"But there is a fly in the ointment, as usual. In this case, it a warning from the author of Riva Tuner regarding the difficulties in unlocking pipelines in NV43-based 6200 with À4 revision of the chip – judging by the response from owners of such boards, the card does not react to the attempts to change the pipelines configuration. Also, GeForce 6200 based on NV44A offering native support for the AGP where you can't enable additional four pipelines is expected to be released soon. But it's quite possible that solutions on the base of NV44A will be somehow cheaper than their NV43 analogs because of the lack of HSI bridge and thus reduction in production costs. But we'll sort this out next time, and now move on to the benchmarking part."

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iirc, nv44 is impossible to unlock, and nv43 A1 and nv43 A2 are unlockable.

kwak, Nov 30, 2005

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Originally posted by emperor1907
My god. couldn't we o/c 6200 in riva tuner 15.8 ? Only 81.26 driver can o/c it. Others aren't working. is there any method for o/c in 6200? Sorry for my bad english..
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Once again: if you cannot o/c display adapter due to _driver's_issues_ then _don_t_ expect fix from RT's side. Look for fixed driver instead.

Unwinder, Dec 1, 2005

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Good news, I was still able to find some free time and release 15.8 today. The distributive is sent to Hilbert and will be available for download soon.

Stay tuned!

Unwinder, Dec 1, 2005

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thank again for your work Unwinder

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