Overclocking in Vista

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ThaDrewster

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I have an X1800 XT card....


Im very curious if anyone else has any tools or software that runs stable in Windows Vista.

I really would love to OC my card seeing as things like BF2142 are coming out and I want to push some of that extra power out of my card, I have tried ATI Tool and Tray tools and one or two others, none seem to work with Vista.

They all seem to have some sort of Device Driver/Kernel problem.

Im not sure if I am going to do a custom bios, I would rather not.


So if you guys have any ideas, post some feedback here for me and others who are running into the same issues.


Thanks guys.
 
As far as I know, there are no overclocking utilities for ATI cards that work in Vista. You'll probably have to live with the card at stock speeds until something comes out.
 
Zero82z said:
As far as I know, there are no overclocking utilities for ATI cards that work in Vista. You'll probably have to live with the card at stock speeds until something comes out.
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I'm using the TriXX utility that came with my Sapphire X850 Pro, it works fine in Vista. The only issue is that when the machine comes out of hibernate I have to re-apply my settings.
 
JustLong said:
I'm using the TriXX utility that came with my Sapphire X850 Pro, it works fine in Vista. The only issue is that when the machine comes out of hibernate I have to re-apply my settings.
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So Trixx will work for the X1000 line as well?
 
Well I tried trixx, same thing happened. It told me something about not being able to communicate with "low-level driver" or something, basically couldnt find the device driver.

Im not sure how you got yours to work in vista.
 
ThaDrewster said:
Well I tried trixx, same thing happened. It told me something about not being able to communicate with "low-level driver" or something, basically couldnt find the device driver.

Im not sure how you got yours to work in vista.
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Did you try running it logged on as administrator? Unless you have turned off UAC TriXX may not work correctly unless you log on as administrator or right click on trixx and choose run as administrator.
 
JustLong said:
Did you try running it logged on as administrator? Unless you have turned off UAC TriXX may not work correctly unless you log on as administrator or right click on trixx and choose run as administrator.
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Well, I always have UAC turned off, that thing is a pain in the ass....always asking if I want to do this or do that, my god its a stupid feature. But anway, ya I did have that turned off, and no I didnt try to run as administrator, I forogt :(

But I will try it when I get home, however, this is basically the same issue ATI Tool was giving me, im pretty damn sure right-clicking and running as administrator isnt going to solve the problem, thx for the feedback tho (ill try it anyways for kicks when I get home)

Thx :)

If anyone else has any OC'ing solutions for ATI video cards in Vista please post your info.
 
depending on your card you could flash it to the X1800XT PE which runs the clocks at 700/800 (1600ddr). Some x1800xt's won't be able to handle it though. You need a pcb with 6 phase power i think for it to work correctly.
 
ThaDrewster said:
Well, I always have UAC turned off, that thing is a pain in the ass....always asking if I want to do this or do that, my god its a stupid feature. But anway, ya I did have that turned off, and no I didnt try to run as administrator, I forogt :(

But I will try it when I get home, however, this is basically the same issue ATI Tool was giving me, im pretty damn sure right-clicking and running as administrator isnt going to solve the problem, thx for the feedback tho (ill try it anyways for kicks when I get home)

Thx :)

If anyone else has any OC'ing solutions for ATI video cards in Vista please post your info.
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Having UAC off is basically the same as running as administrator, maybe Overclocking is done differently on the x1000 series of cards as I have never had an issue overclocking my x850 in vista

My wife doesn't mide UAC and she likes the extra layer of protection it adds in IE, but for power users it is sooo annoying.
 
firewolf said:
If you want to "push the power of your card" then go back to XP
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If you want to push your system period, you need to go back to xp lol. Vista uses too much stuff for itself that all games will run worse one it than xp.
 
ya I realize I do need to go back to XP for overclocking, but even in XP I was having issues with overclocking the X1000 series. Its just a pain in the ass, I mean W1zzard over at techpowerup is having a hell of a time getting that series of cards to overclock without crashing and clock resets etc... some have had more luck with x1000 series, however Im just not one of them, if anyone has clear instructions on creating a bios with a bios editor please lemme know.

Because I have used Rabit video bios editor and I thought I successfully made a bios of my own, I meaned it seemed soo damn simple, then I flashed my card with it and couldnt get a screen to come up at all (eventually got my card working again using a friends card to bring up a screen) so as you can see I havent had much luck with bios editing either, so if you guys have some good info on that Ill be in debted to you.
 
get an Nvidia card ATI has poor hardware supported by even worse software
 
Penrow said:
get an Nvidia card ATI has poor hardware supported by even worse software
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gee, that's not a completely uneducated and biased statement now is it?

True that ATI doesn't have "as good" of driver support as Nvidia, but saying their hardware is poor is like saying Ferrari makes a shitty F1 car.

I have both ATI and Nvidia cards and there's nothing wrong with either one. Both will have problems here and there, but to say their hardware is poor is an uneducated statement at best.
 
ATI's drivers are on par with or better than nVidia's current ones. I speak from personal experience.
 
just make a bios.... copy your default one and set the core clock... that how i did it on my 7800gtx its really not that hard...

i used a USB flash drive to boot the flash program off of... google HP USB flash drive to make a bootable one...
 
Penrow said:
get an Nvidia card ATI has poor hardware supported by even worse software
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ATI has far better Vista inbox driver support than Nvidia.
 
Use Powerstrip for your ATi, the beta version works in Vista. I have seen a few people say they had to manually set their OC when they reboot, but I didn't have an issue with that. Even if you do have to reset, it's like 5 seconds to drag the core/mem sliders and hit apply.
 
Im trying powerstrip in Vista for my Nvidia 6200. I set the settings I want but when I hit apply, it makes an error sound and the settings are the same...
 
I did try powerstrip, but I keep getting the driver signing bullshit, so Its not working for me.

I have been hearing a lot of things about how to get around driver signing, but in RC1/RC2 i heard MS got rid of the way to stop driver signing, so is there any current way for RC2 specifically to stop the driver signing enforcement?

Thanks
 
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