what happened to nTune?

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Deusfaux

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I upgraded to 175.16

but found that nTune is now called something else?

Neither the base drivers, nor installing the version 6.01 of the nTune replacement gave me an overclocking tab in my control panel for my 8800GTS 512.

I DID have such controls with the previous WHQL driver and nTune 5.5 or whatever.

What gives? is this a replacement for nTune or not? Where/how am I supposed to change clock and memory settings?
 
For me, with my 8800GTS 640mb SSC on the Vista x64 drivers, I just open the nVidia CP and open the Performance tab and then click on "Device Settings", which opens-up CPU, Memory, Mobo, and GPU options and so I just click on the GPU icon and voila it's all there in front of me (don't mean to sound like an ass or anything, but that's how it's working for me atm, hopefully that helps).
 
for my performance 'tab' (more like a header in a tree on the left)

I only have "View System Information" and "Profile Policies"
 
I remember that from all the previous drivers, but doesn't happen on this one.

It simply goes right through to profile policies
 
Yeah, nTune stopped working for me as well. I recommend EVGA's new tool for overclocking - Precision. It is very simple and also allows you to overclock the shaders.

Also, I see that you have the G15. Precision allows to view your settings on the lcd while gaming. It made me realize how hot is was letting my 8800GTS512 get.

Link
 
well normally you'd need ntune to enable that part of the control panel. but im using this enthusiast program thing instead or whatever...

is it supposed to operate this way?

should I take it off and try to put ntune back on instead? (is the older ntune even compatible with this much newer driver? the link to it was gone on the nvidia driver page)
 
I used ntune until recently but since the new version is not supported with non-nvidia mobos I switched to precision.
 
it should still support non nvidia mobos

from nvidia's page for System Tools with ESA support (the nTune replacement)

"GPU overclocking and temperature monitoring support:

GeForce 5 (FX), 6, 7, 8, and 9 series GPUs"

The NVIDIA System Tools installation package includes:

1. NVIDIA Performance Group (v6.01.12.02) add-on to the NVIDIA Control Panel

nForce MCPs
– Enables system tuning and profiles for clocks, voltages, timings, and fans
– Includes support for Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) components
– Displays detailed system information


GeForce GPUs
– Enables GPU overclocking


Yet, GPU overclocking was NOT enabled for me.
 
Could be a bug in the first release. But I do have an Asus A8N-SLI nForce 4 mobo and thus an nVidia mobo so that would make sense why it's working fine for me.
 
I'm trying to locate ntune on nvidia's site now, and an accompanying document for it to see if it still support drivers newer than itself (176.XX)
 
DyingPC said:
Yeah, nTune stopped working for me as well. I recommend EVGA's new tool for overclocking - Precision. It is very simple and also allows you to overclock the shaders.

Also, I see that you have the G15. Precision allows to view your settings on the lcd while gaming. It made me realize how hot is was letting my 8800GTS512 get.

Link
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That is just a dumbed down version of RivaTuner.
 
I can confirm that uninstalling System Tools and putting back on the last version of nTune works and I have "adjust GPU settings" available to me.
 
Met-AL said:
That is just a dumbed down version of RivaTuner.
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Yep- gotta hand it to eVGA though. Between nTune, RivaTuner, and ATiTool, I wasn't able to get any OC on my card (that isn't to say that I couldn't get it to OC- it just wouldn't stay stable). For whatever reason, when I tried Precision, I was able to stably OC my core by 41MHz and stream processors by 118MHz (the memory still won't OC at all, but it's an 8800GTS 640mb SSC so the memory is already OCed a bit and ofc it has the 320-bit bus). And that OC has been stable for over a week now through Crysis, Company of Heroes, Guitar Hero 3 (not a major test, xD), etc... but the second I tried an OC w/any of the aforementioned tools I'd get a crash (well, when I booted into a game- even just GH3- and it loaded 3D graphics the screen would turn black b/c ofc the gpu would shut-down).
 
FWIW, I have the same problem. I sent them a bug report. Either nobody else cared enough to send a bug report or this problem is rare since "System Tools" came out many weeks ago, but I had the same problem on 2 machines, one with an 8800GS and AMD X2 5600+ while the other has a 9600GT and C2D E4300 oc to 3GHz. The ony thing they have in common is Vista 32-bit and the nVidia driver versions.
 
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