Help with RivaTuner

[TalonMan]

I am having trouble finding the only 2 paramaters I want to change on my graphics card using RivaTuner 2.0.

In A review i read, on the GeForce 7600 GT, they took the Engine or Core MHz from the stock of 560MHz to 660MHz withought any problems.

They also took the memory MHz from the default of 700 up to 850MHz successfully.

I downloaded Riva Tuner 2.0 and installed it. You would think the first screen you come to would have your Core/Engine MHz next to your memory's MHz to move a slider. It is probably the first thing the average user would look for when downloading a program made for graphic card overclocking. No such luck. In Fact I beel looking at every tab and no Memory or Core/Engine paramater to be found.

odd

Kind of makes you feel like the author expects you to read some monster text file about the program before you can even change the first paramater of your graphics card.

There must be a fast and easy way using Riva Tuner to change these 2 common paramaters?

 

[DDuckMan]

On the main page, in the Driver settings section click "customize". The first icon is "System settings". You will find what you want there.

I agree, the general layout of Rivatuner is crap, but I love the monitoring functions.

 

[TalonMan]

Thanks for the help!

That is exactly what I needed. I found the sliders but an unexpected thing happened. I could not get my sliders to the 660/850 like the the reviewer did. I would get en error message telling me that my drivers didn't support that speed. I kept moving them down until my current position of Core=601MHz, and Memory=803MHz. I still am not sure that I am not seeing some odd things happining during the 3DMark 03 test I'm running, so these setting might still need to be set even lower?

On the up side I ran 3DMark 03 before the adjustment. The first time a received a score of 13,678. Ran it a second time to see how much my baseline number would change and I received a score of 13,751.

Core went from 560 to 601MHz, Memory went from 700 to 803MHz, and re-ran the test. This time I received a score of 14,794. Not too bad, but now I am wondering if I am seeing all of the graphics correctly.

Looks like you might need a special driver too? Best is probably a special driver along with the proper setting to bump your MHz to. Not sure what to think.

I cant get this guys settings: http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3335&s=19

My info:
Description NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
Manufacturer NVIDIA
Total Local Video Memory 256 MB
Total Local Texture Memory 256 MB
Total AGP Memory 512 MB
Driver File nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.9371
Driver Date 10-22-2006
Driver WHQL Certified true

Does anybody know the best driver and accelerated settings I can get away with for my card, and not add any extra fans or such?

 

[ghost6303]

special driver? maybe just an updated version... and what 'odd things' are you seeing

 

[TalonMan]

I am under the impression I am running the latest NVIDA driver, so I am thinking 3rd party must be the answer? All I know is the error message indicating my current driver will not support me clocking that high.

I had it set a tad higher and textures on the dudes in the evelator were way off. Other odd things too. I kept moving the sliders back down until I think things appear to be OK again, but I havent looked too closely yet. The other oddities were right in your face.

I will continue this conversation in another thread I started just about my graphice card. I want to talk more about my card, and less on RivaTuner now.

Thanks again gor the help, and if you know about my 7600 GT, jump over to this thread please.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030748182&posted=1#post1030748182

 

[blendingnoise]

I tried OC my 7900gs ko and couldn't reach the same speeds that a bunch of other people were able to. Maybe its the cards themselves?

That message that it did not pass the internal driver test was a wierd thing for me. Start from default and then go up slowly and just keep testing it each time. (by slowly I mean incriments of 10). Once you reach the settings you have now, decrease the incriments down to around 2-3. For some reason I couldn't get my current settings by jumping up to them, but slowly going up allowed it to pass the test and allow me to save. Reseting to default when I went too high and then going back up also let me reach speeds that kept failing before.

I have read a couple of threads saying to use ati-tool when first oc'ing because the inbuilt artifact scanner is good so maybe thats worth a shot?

 

[TalonMan]

Thanks for the post. I will try intching it up.