최근 nVIDIA의 GeForce 6800에 대한 Vertex
Pipeline의 비밀과 Pipeline 개조에 대한 소식을 전해주고 있는 새로운 버전의 Rivatuner가 다음달 6일에 공개될것이라는 소식이
Guru3D의 유저포럼을 통해서 공개되었다.
Unwinder라는 유저(moderator)가 공개한 이 소식에
따르면 새로운 Rivatuner RC15.1 버전의 개발이 완료되었으며 현재 클로즈 베타테스트를 진행중에
있다고 한다.
그리고 새로운 버전의 공개는 9월
6일 월요일에 공개된다고 밝히고 있으며 새버전을 통해 NV40 GPU를 장착한 제품의 Pixel Pipeline과 Vertex Pipeline
구성을 사용자가 쉽게 설정할수가 있으며 NVStrap v1.5 드라이버를 번들로 포함하여 컨트롤패널상에서 Pipeline설정을 쉽게 적용할수
있게 만들어져 있다고 한다.
새롭게 공개될 Rivatuner
RC15.1의 새로운 기능에 대한 설명은 아래 원문을 참고하기 바란다.
Minor bugfixes:
- RivaTuner's
driver-level color schemes are no longer lost after creating at least one
non-standard color scheme via the ForceWare's control panel applet.
What's new:
- Added ForceWare 65.xx - 66.xx driver families
support.
- Added databases for the ForceWare 61.76, 61.77, 65.91 and 66.00
drivers for Windows 2000/XP.
- Added PCI-E NV40 series display adapters
support.
- A lot of NV40 / R420 specific enhancements, new diagnostic and
tuning features. Thanks to Andrew Woribiew for providing ATI RADEON X800PRO and
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 samples.
- Added active pixel pipelines / vertex
processors count detection for NV40 based display adapters.
- Updated
bundled NVInfo v1.3 DOS utility. Now NVInfo supports NV40 series and can display
diagnostic info including active pixel pipelines / vertex processors count. This
feature allows you to verify NV40 based display adapter right from the bootable
floppy before purchasing it.
- Updated bundled NVStrap v1.5 driver. Now the
driver supports NV40 GPU series and provides NV40 owners previously available
AGP SBA / AGP FW and PCI DeviceID strapping settings as well as absolutely new
unique feature specific for this GPU family - custom graphics processor
configuration panel. This panel allows you to alter an amount of active pixel
pipelines and vertex processors of NV40 GPU, so any GeForce 6800 GT / Ultra
board can be turned to GeForce 6800 or GeForce 6800 LE via disabling required
amount of pixel pipelines and vertex processors at software level. Furthermore,
some GeForce 6800 owners will be able to unlock software masked pixel pipelines
and vertex processors and greatly boost performance. Take a note that both pixel
pipelines and vertex processors on GeForce 6800 (LE) boards can be locked either
at hardware or at software level. RivaTuner will be able to unlock them in the
second case only.
- Updated "NVIDIA VGA BIOS information" diagnostic report
category for NV40 GPU based display adapters:
- Added performance level
table decoding. Performance level specific core / memory clocks and core voltage
are now displayed on NV40 based boards too. Take a note that wrongly voltmodded
VGA BIOS'es are also already available in the net, so you may use the
information displayed in RivaTuner to validate any software voltmodded BIOS. All
NV3x+ software voltage mod details discussed in RivaTuner's FAQ before, also
fully apply to NV40 GPUs, so please refer to RivaTuner's FAQ to get more
information on it.
- Added GPU units mask info for NV40 GPU based boards.
This mask tells you if VGA BIOS contains any softmasked pixel pipelines and
vertex processors and can be used for fast detecting softmoddable boards.
-
Removed obsolete VCO frequency limits info for NV40 GPU based boards.
-
Updated "NVIDIA specific display adapter information" diagnostic report
category. Now besides hardwired ID RivaTuner displays ROM softstrapped PCI
DeviceID on NV3X+ based boards.
- Now during displaying "NVIDIA VGA BIOS
information" diagnostic report category RivaTuner reads VGA BIOS contents
directly from flash ROM. This feature was implemented in order to access NV40's
performance level tables, located outside ROM copy accessible via standard ISA
address space.
- Added DVC control for NV40 based boards.
- Added RADEON
9550 series support.
- Updated SoftR9x00 and ATIOverclockingAntiprotection
patch scripts for the Catalyst 4.7, 4.8 and 4.9 beta for Windows 2000/XP.
-
Added fan duty cycle monitoring for LM63 capable R360 and R420 based boards with
reference cooling system. Take a note that it is impossible to monitor the real
fan speed on these boards because of lack of feedback between fan's tachometer
output and sensor chip, so monitored fan duty cycle is a target fan speed
programmed by the sensor, but not the real one. Actual speed may be lower due to
fan malfunction and other factors.
- Added fan speed control for LM63
capable R360 and R420 based boards with reference cooling system. Now you may
use either default temperature controlled dynamic fan speed mode, or improve
your R360/R420 cooling at the cost of noise due to fixed 100% fan speed mode.
- Added detailed memory timings decryption for R420 based display adapters.
- Added DDR3 memory type detection for R420 based display adapters.
-
Added command line interface for saving VGA BIOS image for all supported NVIDIA
display adapters and ATI R300+ based display adapters. Use /BI command line
switch to extract and save VGA BIOS image in a file. In addition to that,
RivaTuner also provides previously undocumented /BD command line switch,
allowing you to save dump of VGA BIOS stored in memory. Take a note that this
feature works even with unsupported display adapters (e.g. Matrox), but the dump
created with this command line switch is not flashable and can be used for
scientific needs (e.g. reverse engineering) only.
- Updated RivaTunerEx.sys
driver incorporates new IOCTL, allowing RivaTuner to execute some portions of
code in kernel mode. Since this version RivaTuner executes all low-level I2C
access code in kernel mode to minimize risk of collision with other applications
accessing ATI I2C bus at low level. However, the previous user mode I2C access
method can be also activated with ATII2CKernelModeAccess registry entry.
-
Improved graphics processor core detection scheme for both NVIDIA and ATI
display adapters. Now RivaTuner.cfg file contains user customizable PCI DeviceID
indexed table of supported graphics processors. This will not make RivaTuner
forward compatible with future graphics processors, but will greatly simplify
process of adding support of new display adapters based on supported GPUs.
-
Updated monitor manufacturers list.
- Improved database format. Now string
registry entries may also use interpretators of ENUM type.
- Now all
RivaTuner's command line interfaces can provide an access to non-primary display
adapters.
- Easter eggs updates. Added hidden command line interface for
AND, OR and XOR based GPU registers modification commands.
- FAQ updated.
- Minor UI changes and improvements.
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