RivaTuner is a powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA based cards. All series of Detonator drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don't affect anything, but some are very useful. In general they cannot give you big performance boots but they can improve image quality and solve some compatibility problems. This utility will help you to change all undocumented registry entries.
Software: Freeware
Operating System: Microsoft Windows
Download: RivaTuner 2.0 RC 15.3 New Year Edition
Version ChangeLog:
Added ForceWare 67.xx - 7x.xx driver families support
Updated databases for Detonator and ForceWare driver families
Updated NVStrapAntiprotection and ForceWareAntiprotection patch scripts for ForceWare 66.93, 67.02, 70.41, 70.90 and 71.20 drivers
To avoid confusing beginners, which often tend to ignore built-in context help, low-level overclocking tab is now hidden on GeForce FX and newer display adapters
Removed obsolete "Depth buffering" tab in Direct3D tweaks dialog for the ForceWare 65.xx and newer drivers
DirectX7/DirectX8 texture formats options in "Textures" tab / Direct3D tweaks dialog are renamed to DirectX7 and DirectX8+ surface formats
Revised list of available surface formats for new drivers in "Textures" tab / Direct3D tweaks dialog
Added full NVIDIA NV41 and NV44 graphics processors support
Added new PCI-E NV4x PCI DeviceIDs to the database of supported NVIDIA GPUs
Added experimental NV46 and NV47 graphics processors support
Updated NVStrap driver v1.7 gives you more new exclusive features
Improved graphics subsystem diagnostic report module
Improved low-level hardware monitoring module
Improved patch script engine
Added NV40BIOSHwUnitsMaskEliminator patch script, allowing you to remove hardware units mask initialization code from VGA BIOS initialization script
Added filename resolving for RivaTuner's files launched via the command line
Added ATI Catalyst driver version detection
Database of supported ATI / NVIDIA drivers is now user extendable and stored in [DriverFamily_...] and [DriverFiles_...] sections of RivaTuner.cfg file
Added X800SE support
Added ATI R430 and R480 graphics processors support
Updated Catalyst 4.11, 4.12 beta and 4.12 certified SoftR9x00, ATIOverclockingAntiprotection and ATIOverclockingAntiprotectionRuntime patch scripts
New NSIS 2.02 based installer
Easter eggs updates
Added about 10 new overclocking, hardware monitoring and softmodding questions to FAQ
Minor UI changes and improvements
Fixed performance table entry size calculation for BIT-based NVIDIA VGA BIOS images
Fixed title detection for ATI ATOM VGA BIOS images
NVStrap driver's "Graphics processor identification" / "Quadro" mode and "Allow enabling hardware masked units" option no longer conflict when they are activated simultaneously
"Cannot reset R/O attribute of destination file" message is no longer displayed when patch script engine creates new destination file instead of overwriting source file
