RivaTuner is the most powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA display adapters running under Windows 98 / Windows 98 SE / Windows ME / Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of the Detonator drivers. All versions of the Detonator drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don?t affect anything, but there are some that are very useful.
Minor bugfixes: Fixed memory bus type detection code for NV34 GPUs, commented by accident in the previous version source code. Minor UI fixes. What's new: Full NVIDIA ForceWare support including the latest WHQL 52.16 drivers for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP. Forward compatibility with undocumented ForceWare FSAA modes. The newly announced NVIDIA drivers contain dozen of undocumented supersampling / multisampling / hybrid antialiasing modes, which have not been fully identified yet. Since this version the list of antialiasing modes available in RivaTuner's Direct3D / OpenGL tweaking panels is user programmable and can be easily updated via editing RivaTuner.cfg file. This ensures easy antialiasing modes list update without need to download updated RivaTuner's executable file after identifying all undocumented modes. Power users may start experimenting with undocumented FSAA modes right now :) Blocked driver-level 60Hz fix for NVIDIA ForceWare drivers. This module is not required for new generation drivers, because NVIDIA finally provided unified Direct3D / OpenGL refresh override tool in ForceWare control panel. Updated databases for both Detonator and ForceWare driver families. Added databases for ForceWare 52.13, 52.14 (for Windows 2000/XP only) and 52.16 for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP. Updated NV25AALines, LODBiasFix and NVStrap antiprotection patch scripts for Windows 2000/XP for the latest Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Due to flexible plugin system, introduced in RivaTuner's patch script engine, NVIDIA miniport related patch scripts can be installed now on the protected drivers version 45.20 and higher for Windows 2000/XP. Please refer to notes on improved patch script engine to get more information. Note: LODBiasFix patch script development is stopped and the script doesn't support ForceWare 52.16 and higher drivers. The driver's negative LOD bias adjustment bug that has been corrected by this script is finally fixed in ForceWare 52.16. Thanks to Scott Kephart @ NVIDIA for paying attention to this issue and fixing the problem. LODBiasFix script is no longer required and negative Direct3D mipmap LOD bias can be finally set without patching the driver. As promised, DetonatorFXDecoder development is stopped and new versions of nv4_disp.dll will not be supported by this plugin. LODBiasFix script is obsolete since ForceWare 52.16 so there are no Direct3D patch scripts requiring driver decoding left in RivaTuner. Added NV36/NV38 GPUs support. Added NV36 PLLs support. Now RivaTuner's low-level clock detection algorithms can correctly read NV36 clock frequencies. Added R360/RV360 GPUs support. Now RivaTuner's low-level hardware overclocking and diagnostic features are available for RADEON 9600XT/9800XT owners too. Revised ATI clock frequency detection/generation algorithms. The code was updated to accommodate memory/core PLL post dividers usage on certain boards (e.g. ASUS RADEON 9800XT). Now RivaTuner detects correct clock frequencies on such boards too. Improved launcher: Navigation through RivaTuner's modules is significantly simplified now. You can add so called module activation items to RivaTuner's launcher, which will provide you quick access to any RivaTuner's module via tray menu or even via hotkeys / shortcuts placed on Windows desktop. Dreaming about activating overlay gamma adjustment tab with Ctrl + Shift + O? Dreaming about having shortcut to antialiasing settings directly on your desktop? You dreams come true with new module activation launcher items feature. Improved launcher item GUID generation algorithm. Now RivaTuner uses date/time based GUIDs generation system, which ensures that RivaTuner's shortcuts will never collide. Updated Catalyst 3.8 certified SoftR9x00 scripts for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP. The scripts also support unofficial recently leaked Catalyst driver v6396 for Windows 2000/XP. ATIOverclockingAntiprotection patch scripts for all currently available Catalyst drivers for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP are integrated in RivaTuner now. Seriously improved patch script engine allows inexperienced users to avoid the most frequently met problems. Patch script installation procedure is much safer and easier now due to the following innovations: Added patch script mode specific system requirements checking. Now RivaTuner's patch script interpretator may also display warnings when you use patch script mode, which is not intended for your system. This feature was added to prevent ATI users from selecting wrong PCI DeviceIDs in antiprotection scripts for the FireGL driver components. Added patch script pre-installation/post-installation plugins support. The plugins provide unlimited possibilities for patch script developers and allow to implement features, which cannot be covered by standard RivaTuner's patch script engine (e.g. pre-installation file decryption, post-installation file format specific checksum regeneration etc). Such features can be easily integrated in RivaTuner's patch engine now. Patch script plugin ideology was introduced due to numerous user requests on simplifying encoded NVIDIA drivers patching process. Now the DetonatorFXDecoder external utility is implemented as patch script pre-installation plugin. You no longer need to decode encoded drivers manually before installing the scripts on them, the drivers are transparently decoded by the DetonatorFXDecoder plugin when you install a script on the protected driver. Added WFP tracking system. Now RivaTuner detects attempts to patch system files secured by Windows File Protection and warns you against possible file recovery. Improved uncertified patch script tracking system. Now besides adding uncertified patch script installation warning to the log, RivaTuner also displays warning message allowing you to interrupt uncertified patch script installation process. Patch script descriptions support bold font / font color tags now. The most important info in the patch script descriptions is highlighted now to attract user's attention. Improved low-level hardware monitoring module: Hardware monitoring statistics can be saved to the log file now. Optimized driver-level temperature monitoring wrapper for NV3x graphics processors. Now RivaTuner's hardware monitoring module eats twice less CPU time comparing to the previous version when simultaneously monitoring core and ambient temperatures. Improved appearance under Windows XP due to 32-bit antialiased icons usage. Minor UI changes and improvements. Download
Minor bugfixes: Fixed memory bus type detection code for NV34 GPUs, commented by accident in the previous version source code. Minor UI fixes. What's new: Full NVIDIA ForceWare support including the latest WHQL 52.16 drivers for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP. Forward compatibility with undocumented ForceWare FSAA modes. The newly announced NVIDIA drivers contain dozen of undocumented supersampling / multisampling / hybrid antialiasing modes, which have not been fully identified yet. Since this version the list of antialiasing modes available in RivaTuner's Direct3D / OpenGL tweaking panels is user programmable and can be easily updated via editing RivaTuner.cfg file. This ensures easy antialiasing modes list update without need to download updated RivaTuner's executable file after identifying all undocumented modes. Power users may start experimenting with undocumented FSAA modes right now :) Blocked driver-level 60Hz fix for NVIDIA ForceWare drivers. This module is not required for new generation drivers, because NVIDIA finally provided unified Direct3D / OpenGL refresh override tool in ForceWare control panel. Updated databases for both Detonator and ForceWare driver families. Added databases for ForceWare 52.13, 52.14 (for Windows 2000/XP only) and 52.16 for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP. Updated NV25AALines, LODBiasFix and NVStrap antiprotection patch scripts for Windows 2000/XP for the latest Detonator and ForceWare drivers. Due to flexible plugin system, introduced in RivaTuner's patch script engine, NVIDIA miniport related patch scripts can be installed now on the protected drivers version 45.20 and higher for Windows 2000/XP. Please refer to notes on improved patch script engine to get more information. Note: LODBiasFix patch script development is stopped and the script doesn't support ForceWare 52.16 and higher drivers. The driver's negative LOD bias adjustment bug that has been corrected by this script is finally fixed in ForceWare 52.16. Thanks to Scott Kephart @ NVIDIA for paying attention to this issue and fixing the problem. LODBiasFix script is no longer required and negative Direct3D mipmap LOD bias can be finally set without patching the driver. As promised, DetonatorFXDecoder development is stopped and new versions of nv4_disp.dll will not be supported by this plugin. LODBiasFix script is obsolete since ForceWare 52.16 so there are no Direct3D patch scripts requiring driver decoding left in RivaTuner. Added NV36/NV38 GPUs support. Added NV36 PLLs support. Now RivaTuner's low-level clock detection algorithms can correctly read NV36 clock frequencies. Added R360/RV360 GPUs support. Now RivaTuner's low-level hardware overclocking and diagnostic features are available for RADEON 9600XT/9800XT owners too. Revised ATI clock frequency detection/generation algorithms. The code was updated to accommodate memory/core PLL post dividers usage on certain boards (e.g. ASUS RADEON 9800XT). Now RivaTuner detects correct clock frequencies on such boards too. Improved launcher: Navigation through RivaTuner's modules is significantly simplified now. You can add so called module activation items to RivaTuner's launcher, which will provide you quick access to any RivaTuner's module via tray menu or even via hotkeys / shortcuts placed on Windows desktop. Dreaming about activating overlay gamma adjustment tab with Ctrl + Shift + O? Dreaming about having shortcut to antialiasing settings directly on your desktop? You dreams come true with new module activation launcher items feature. Improved launcher item GUID generation algorithm. Now RivaTuner uses date/time based GUIDs generation system, which ensures that RivaTuner's shortcuts will never collide. Updated Catalyst 3.8 certified SoftR9x00 scripts for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP. The scripts also support unofficial recently leaked Catalyst driver v6396 for Windows 2000/XP. ATIOverclockingAntiprotection patch scripts for all currently available Catalyst drivers for both Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2000/XP are integrated in RivaTuner now. Seriously improved patch script engine allows inexperienced users to avoid the most frequently met problems. Patch script installation procedure is much safer and easier now due to the following innovations: Added patch script mode specific system requirements checking. Now RivaTuner's patch script interpretator may also display warnings when you use patch script mode, which is not intended for your system. This feature was added to prevent ATI users from selecting wrong PCI DeviceIDs in antiprotection scripts for the FireGL driver components. Added patch script pre-installation/post-installation plugins support. The plugins provide unlimited possibilities for patch script developers and allow to implement features, which cannot be covered by standard RivaTuner's patch script engine (e.g. pre-installation file decryption, post-installation file format specific checksum regeneration etc). Such features can be easily integrated in RivaTuner's patch engine now. Patch script plugin ideology was introduced due to numerous user requests on simplifying encoded NVIDIA drivers patching process. Now the DetonatorFXDecoder external utility is implemented as patch script pre-installation plugin. You no longer need to decode encoded drivers manually before installing the scripts on them, the drivers are transparently decoded by the DetonatorFXDecoder plugin when you install a script on the protected driver. Added WFP tracking system. Now RivaTuner detects attempts to patch system files secured by Windows File Protection and warns you against possible file recovery. Improved uncertified patch script tracking system. Now besides adding uncertified patch script installation warning to the log, RivaTuner also displays warning message allowing you to interrupt uncertified patch script installation process. Patch script descriptions support bold font / font color tags now. The most important info in the patch script descriptions is highlighted now to attract user's attention. Improved low-level hardware monitoring module: Hardware monitoring statistics can be saved to the log file now. Optimized driver-level temperature monitoring wrapper for NV3x graphics processors. Now RivaTuner's hardware monitoring module eats twice less CPU time comparing to the previous version when simultaneously monitoring core and ambient temperatures. Improved appearance under Windows XP due to 32-bit antialiased icons usage. Minor UI changes and improvements. Download
