Added ForceWare 76.xx driver family support.
Updated
databases for Detonator and ForceWare driver families. Added databases
for ForceWare 72.03, 76.10, 76.44, 76.45 and 76.50 drivers.
NV40BIOSSwUnitsMaskeliminator
patch script has been replaced with NV4xBIOSSwUnitsMaskeliminator. Now
the script may optionally remove software units mask from both NV40 and
NV43 VGA BIOS images.
Added Catalyst 5.3 and 5.4 drivers detection.
Updated
Catalyst 5.3 and 5.4 certified SoftR9x00 patch script. Take a note that
ATIOverclockingAntiprotection and ATIOverclockingAntiprotectionRuntime
patch scripts are discontinued and no longer updated, as new ATI
drivers are no longer overclocking protected.
Improved
NVStrap driver v1.8 provides Quadro capabilities unlocking for some new
hardware protected NV40 based display adapters.
Updated RivaTunerStatisticsServer v1.1 bundled utility:
- Added
support for 3D applications, loading both Direct3D and OpenGL runtime
libraries simultaneously (e.g. 3D Studio MAX 6 / 7, Warcraft 3)
- Added
server customization dialog, allowing you to change the server's hooks
injection behavior either globally or at per-application level. This
feature can be used to disable the server's hooks injection for a
certain 3D applications in case of any incompatibilities between them.
Some additional parameters can be also specified either globally or on
per-application level via this dialog.
- Added
framerate statistics collection ability for windowed Direct3D8 /
Direct3D9 applications. Take a note that this feature requires Direct3D
runtime-level hooks injection opposing to more unified and safe OS
thunk-level hooks injection, so now the server provides you both ways,
which you can optionally choose via the server's customization dialog.
- Added
experimental framerate statistics collection ability for fullscreen
DirectDraw applications and Direct3D applications using DirectDraw
derived Direct3D interfaces (Direct3D7 and older interfaces). Take a
note that this feature is disabled by default.
- Added
on-screen display (further OSD) for fullscreen DirectDraw and
pre-Direct3D8 applications and fullscreen / windowed Direct3D8 /
Direct3D9 / OpenGL applications. Kudos and credits goes to Beepa for
his original OSD concepts, firstly used in FRAPS product. The server's
on-screen display provides you the following functionality:
- By
default the server uses OSD to display its' own framerate statistics,
so now it can be used as a standalone application for framerate
monitoring, if you want to see an instantaneous framerate only and
don't need extended framerate graphs built by RivaTuner's hardware
monitoring module.
- The
server's OSD is a shared resource, and it can be used by any third
party tool for displaying any text information. Using this technology,
RivaTuner can optionally connect to the server's on-screen display and
show current value, retrieved from any selected hardware monitoring
module data source (e.g. core temperature). Take a note that now the
SDK includes a sample, demonstrating OSD usage by third-party utility.
- The
server's customization dialog allows altering OSD size, position and
color either globally or at per-application level. You can also
separately disable OSD for any 3D API at per-application level.
- Added
original race condition preventing algorithm to the hooking system. Now
the server analyzes hooked code and always tries to inject itself in
the end of hooked chain, instead of injecting itself over other hook.
Also, the server now detects when other applications' attempts to
inject in the head of chain, and unloads itself from the memory when
there is race condition threat.
Improved low-level graphics subsystem diagnostic report module:
- Added performance-level specific fan speeds detection for NV3x+ GPU based display adapters.
- Added voltage table v1.1 format support.
Improved low-level hardware monitoring module:
- Revised
threshold crossing rule for hardware monitoring data source thresholds.
Now source crossing event is registered when the value changes from
">=" to "<" and from "<=" to ">" instead of ">" to
"<" and "<" to ">".
- Added
"Treat missing... as" option to the threshold's properties. This option
can be used to force missing data for the specified data source to be
treated as a desired value, and it is helpful for the sources like
"Framerate", which receive no data when there is no 3D application
running. As an example of using this option, you may define a threshold
at 0 for the "Framerate" data source, then set "Treat invalid fraterate
as -1" to detect the moment of starting any 3D application as the
threshold registration event.
- Added
"Show ... in on-screen display" option to the monitoring data source's
properties. Now the sources having this flag set automatically send
their current values to RivaTunerStatisticsServer's on-screen display.
- Optimized graph caches recreation on monitoring window maximizing / closing events.
Added ATI R481, NVIDIA NV44 (AGP) and NV48 chips support. Thanks to Andrew Worobiew for testing RivaTuner with AGP RADEON X850.
Added
/RD and /RELOADDRIVER command line switches for reloading currently
selected display device's driver via the command line.
Removed obsolete Windows 2000-specific post driver reloading notification message.
Updated
SDK. Added RTSSSharemMemory VC++ sample, demonstrating application's
access to RivaTunerStatisticsServer's framerate statistics and OSD. As
an example of OSD usage, the sample uses it to display the current
system time.
Added
support for AMD chipset based dual Opteron motherboards, having no
northbridge chip located at native PCI bus 0, device 0, function 0.
RivaTuner no longer treats such systems as invalid and no longer enters
in infinite loop trying to access missing northbridge chip at its'
usual location. Take a note that RivaTuner hides all northbridge chip
related functionality (i.e. northbridge diagnostic in the diagnostic
report module and AGP settings tab) on such systems.
Easter eggs updates.
FAQ updated.
Minor UI changes and improvements.
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