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RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.2 released... |
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Written by Mavke
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Monday, 04 October 2004 |
A new version of RivaTuner has been released. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of ForceWare and Catalyst Drivers. Drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don't affect anything, but there are some that are very useful. In general, they cannot give you big Performance Boost but they can improve Image Quality and solve some Compatibility Problems. RivaTuner will help you to change all undocumented registry entries.
 RivaTuner v2.0.RC15.2
Changes in this Version
- Added ForceWare 66.31, 66.29, 66.32, 66.51, 66.70, 66.72 and 66.81 drivers
support.
- Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare driver families. Due to more
complex database build automation process used to generate database build
scripts in this version, the databases contain many new system registry entries,
missed in database build script in the previous versions.
- Updated NVStrap AntiProtection and ForceWare AntiProtector patch scripts for
ForceWare 66.31, 66.29, 66.32, 66.51, 66.70, 66.72 and 66.81 drivers.
- Revised antialiasing modes list for the ForceWare drivers.
- Changed ForceWareFSAAModes format. Now system requirements are specified
using GPU family ID rather than PCI DeviceID.
- Updated Catalyst 4.9, 4.9 hotfix and 8.07 beta certified SoftR9x00 and
ATIOverclockingAntiprotection patch scripts.
- Added RV410 support. Now all R420 specific features including clock
frequency control, temperature and fan speed monitoring / control are also
available on Radeon X700 series. Thanks to Andrew Worobiew for testing RivaTuner
with ATI Radeon X700XT.
- Added VID monitoring for NV40 GPU based display adapters. Now GeForce
6800/GT/Ultra owners may also see either raw VID data or the corresponding
voltages in hardware monitoring window.
- Improved VID interpretator for "Core VID" hardware monitoring data sources:
- Now besides NV30/NV35/NV38 specific "ISL6569 with hardwired VID0 / VID1" VID
interpretation mode, RivaTuner's database also contains "1.1V + 0.1V / 0.3V
loop", "1.1V + 0.3V / 0.2V loop" and "1.1V + 0.1V / 0.2V loop" interpretation
modes allowing to translate raw VID data to the corresponding voltage on all
NV40 based boards.
- Added "Autoselect" button to the "VID interpretation" dialog. This button
forces RivaTuner to compare voltage table stored in VGA BIOS with all VID
interpretators available in the database and automatically select matched one.
- Added interpretation preview window to the "VID interpretation" dialog. Now
RivaTuner displays all available VID values and the corresponding voltages for
selected intepretator.
- Greatly improved built-in patch script engine:
- Added BIOSChecksumGenerator RTS post-installation plug-in module, allowing
you to restore BIOS checksum after patching a file with RivaTuner's patch script
engine.
- Added BIOSChecksumGenerator stub patch script, allowing you to restore VGA
BIOS checksum in image file without making any additional changes in it.
- Improved patch script format. Now the DstFile and BakFile fields can contain
%filename% and %ext% macro strings. This feature is useful when source file name
contains wildcards and is unknown as priori.
- Added NV40BIOSUnitsMaskEliminator patch script, allowing you to remove
software pixel / vertex units mask from VGA BIOS image file.
- New patch script formats support. Now besides previously available native
patch scripts, applying changes to a file, RivaTuner's patch script engine also
supports so called runtime scripts, which can be applied directly to a driver
loaded in memory. Runtime patch scripts are useful for patching runtime decoded
drivers, protected against native patch scripts. Furthermore besides native-only
and runtime-only patch scripts, patch script engine also supports so
called universal patch scripts, which can be installed in both modes.
- Added ATIOverclockingAntiprotectionRuntime patch script, based upon newly
introduced runtime patching technology. This script is an example of universal
patch script, which can be applied to both driver miniport binary file in
the distributive and directly to the miniport driver, loaded in
memory.
- Improved nVidia VGA BIOS formats support:
- Now BIT structure based VGA BIOS images with no BMP structure are fully
supported by RivaTuner. This allows displaying "nVidia VGA BIOS information"
diagnostic report category on GeForce 6600 display adapters family, which have
no BMP structure in BIOS.
- Added BIT tokens list interpretator. Now locations of tokens defining
offsets to performance and voltage tables are calculated by translating and
scanning whole BIT tokens list and no longer referenced using fixed offset from
the beginning of BIT header.
- Improved low-level graphics subsystem diagnostic report module:
- Now nVidia VGA BIOS version is read from the BIT rather than from the BMP
when both structures are available in VGA BIOS.
- Added dozen of new nVidia / Intel / SiS / AMD northbridges to RivaTuner's
hardware database.
- "GPU units mask" line in "nVidia VGA BIOS information" diagnostic report
category has been renamed to "SW units mask". Software units mask representation
has been also changed to make it more plain for beginners. Now RivaTuner
displays "none" instead of "16x1,6vp" when there are no software masked units
detected in VGA BIOS, and shows which pixel / vertex units exactly are disabled
if software units mask exists in VGA BIOS.
- Added "HW units mask" line to "nVidia specific display adapter information"
diagnostic report category. This line displays "none" if the GPU doesn't have
hardware masked pixel / vertex units, otherwise it shows which pixel / vertex
units exactly are masked with hardware straps.
- New NVStrap v1.6 driver
brings you more nice exclusive features:
- Now the NVStrap driver
configuration tab contains "Allow enabling masked units" option, allowing the
driver to force the graphics processor to activate all pixel / vertex units,
even if they are hardware strapped as damaged. Please be extremely careful and
use this option at your own risk. Enabling hardware masked units, which have not
passed hardware quality testing, may cause unpredictable results and even
permanently damage your graphics hardware.
- Improved "Custom graphics
processor configuration" dialog layout. Now you may also see enabled/disabled
state of each pixel/vertex unit in separate column. New "HW masked" column shows
you which pixel / vertex units are hardware strapped as defected and protected
from enabling by default by hardware mask to prevent system instability.
- Added NVStrap driver
version tracking wizard. This module checks version of the currently installed
NVStrap driver each time you open NVStrap configuration tab and offers you to
replace outdated version with new one if you have not reinstalled the driver
manually after upgrading RivaTuner version.
- New NVInfo v1.4 bundled
DOS utility. Now NVInfo provides RivaTuner-styled command line interface for R/W
access to nVidia graphics processor's registers. Take a note, that NVInfo
correctly supports queued R/W commands like RivaTuner's command line
interface.
- Due to users' requests, unofficial support for integrated nVidia graphics processors is returned
back.
- Due to numerous requests
from third party developers, some components of RivaTuner's SDK are no longer
available via personal email request only and will be included in distributive
since this version. Now RivaTuner's publicly available SDK includes
RTHMSharedMemory VC++ sample, allowing third party tools to access RivaTuner's
hardware monitoring statistics in realtime.
- Improved compatibility
with some slow flashrom chips used on nVidia display adapters.
- New Easter eggs. Added
built-in device driver dump utility, allowing you to dump loaded driver memory
and save it to the file for subsequent analysis. This utility is useful for
analyzing runtime decrypted drivers as well as for creating runtime patch
scripts and tracking differences caused by other tool patching driver in
runtime.
- Improved installer. Now
RivaTunerEx.sys driver is automatically unloaded from memory during installation
to ensure proper driver operation.
- Added about 10 new
overclocking and NV40 softmodding related questions and answers to FAQ.
- Minor UI changes and
improvements.
There are stilll as well some issues, but well those will most likely be
fixed in a later version.
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