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.
- Fixed NV44A detection.
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, 81.95 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).
- Updated PCI DeviceID database for both ATI and NVIDIA graphics processors.
- Added support for mainboards
with more than 8 physically addressable PCI-compatible slots (e.g. ASUS
P5WD2 with some old BIOS revisions).
- 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 default. Now fan control
module saves state of fan controller during enabling fan control and
reverts settings to this state after pressing "Defaults" button or
disabling low-level 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 option for forcing tripple buffering in OpenGL.
- 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 via driver-level color adjustment tab.
- 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.
- Native LM63 / F75373S support
has been removed from RivaTuner's core. Now it is fully suppressed with
the corresponding open source plugin modules included in distributive.
- 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 mode 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.
- Updated NVStrap driver v1.10:
- Updated RivaTunerStatisticsServer v1.4.0 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. Please refer to FAQ to get details on benchmark
statistics recording features. 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:
- Added 'Reference fan duty cycle' graph for NV41, NV43 and NV47 GPUs.
- 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 custom color for 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. Please take a note that there is a bug in NVIDIA drivers,
causing improper total videomemory usage reporting. To workaround this
problem, the plugin provides two 'Videomemory usage' implementations:
native and NVIDIA specific. Please ensure that you use NVIDIA specific
videomemory usage provider, if you experience problems with
inconsistent total videomemory usage reporting on NVIDIA display
adapters.
- 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 mapping table used by ATI's own
voltage control tools seem to be off at least by -0.025V according to
real voltage measurements, that is why it is recommended to apply
-0.025V offset to this data source to get more consistent voltage
regulator output readings.
- 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 NVIDIA 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 diagnostics, 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 R5xxx
support cloning. Due to the same cloning protection reason all R5xxx
related hardware access code in RivaTuner is watermarked with dummy GPU
registers reads/writes.
- Added ability of adding memory controller's indexed registers to the list of dumped registers on ATI hardware.
- Added BIOS based videomemory typed detection to 'ATI VGA BIOS information' diagnostic report category.
- Updated SDK:
- Added LM63.dll plugin source code.
- Added VT1103.dll plugin source code. This plugin demonstrates access to VT1103 voltage regulator used on RADEON X1800 series.
- 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.
- Updated easter eggs:
- Added command line based access to memory controller's indexed registers on ATI hardware.
- Added prolog/epilog hardware
initialization scripts processor for daemon routines applying
driver-level / low-level overclocking and low-level fan setting at
windows startup. The scripts allow power users to extend standard
overclocking / fan control features with some danger features, which
are not available in GUI due to safety reasons (e.g. timings / voltage
control).
- FAQ updated.
- Minor UI changes and improvements.
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