HWiNFO v7.73-5370 Beta was released yesterday—the newly updated version includes a fully integrated On-Screen Display (OSD) feature. In the past, users have had to rely on external tools—for example; RivaTuner Statistics Server (RTSS)—to get vital information displayed on their monitor(s) of choice. Martin, HWiNFO's main author, revealed that this new addition is based on a Team Blue toolset—his February 13 official forum post stated: "(this) feature is based on Intel PresentMon and allows showing any value as a text or graph (with multiple values). Position, text font, size, weight and colors can be individually defined. It should work with any engine like DirectX 11, 12, OpenGL, Vulkan. The OSD is automatically placed over the most graphics intensive application currently running but it can also be manually targeted." Five days later he followed up with further information—HWInfo64's new OSD is "available in HWiNFO64 only," therefore making it incompatible with Windows XP. Similarly, MSI's Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta landed a week and a bit ago, without support for Microsoft's 2001-vintage operating system.

Martin reckons that the change could affect Windows Vista users: "Use legacy HWiNFO32 on these systems. We don't anticipate that these systems will benefit from 64-bit applications, nor require support of latest HWiNFO64 versions. So the impact of this (sad) limitation should be minimal. In case there will be a reasonable demand for new versions of HWiNFO64 on XP64 it's still possible to build such versions (without OSD support), but currently we don't expect to make such extra effort." Additionally, the popular monitoring application's latest upgrade brings enhanced sensor monitoring for ASUS NUC systems, improved health monitoring on a selection of NVMe drives (connected via Intel RST), and enhanced sensor monitoring on the ASUS TUF GAMING Z790-PRO WIFI motherboard model.

EVGA allegedly violated the license agreement it held with the original developer of its Precision overclocking and monitoring app, when it developed the latest version of its Precision X 15 app, featuring what it claimed to be a "100 percent in-house" back-end code. EVGA Precision was originally based on RivaTuner codebase, which developer Alex "Unwinder" Nicolaychuk licences out to several major VGA add-in board manufacturers; the more popular being MSI Afterburner. The RivaTuner base, derived from Unwinder's pioneering VGA tweaking app, forms a vast majority of the code of the likes of Precision and Afterburner, with clients going only as far as to innovate shiny skins and UI ideas, or add-on features (ideas), which are then put into code by Unwinder.

Unwinder alleges that the latest version of Precision X, the one EVGA claims to be an in-house development, continues to be largely based on RivaTuner, including the more superficial bits of it, such as user interface dialog control IDs (the way the app takes inputs from the user), and text from the multilingual help system. The installer in which Precision X is packaged, ironically, continues to feature the licence agreement copied over from the older version.

During an overclocking competition help by ASUS and Dutch tech website Tweakers.net, a participant named Neil Breems managed to achieve some stellar results on the ASUS GeForce GTX 285 Matrix. Cooled using a liquid nitrogen evaporator, the graphics card was able to reach 1100 MHz (core), 2452 MHz (shader) and 2800 MHz (memory), way up from the reference speeds of 648/1476/2484 MHz (core/shader/memory). The overclocked settings were set using a tweaked version of RivaTuner. Breems put the card to test using 3DMark06.

Since the rest of the bench was made of an Intel P55 based motherboard running an unreleased 2.66 GHz Core i5 750, Tweakers.net couldn't publish the final score and CPU score, but went ahead with its GPU-related scores that included GT1: 58.863 fps, GT2 57.762 fps, HDR1 112.6 fps, and 73.84 fps for HDR2. The memory to drive the system Corsair Dominator GT DDR3-2000, and the system powered by Corsair HX850W.

Released way back in February, RivaTuner 2.24 got a minor update ahead of the upcoming MSI Master Overclocking Arena event held in Beijing. RivaTuner is a handy graphics card performance-control and monitoring utility. Version 2.24b builds on the existing feature-set of RivaTuner 2.24, with a few important changes as follows:

• Added ForceWare 190.xx drivers family support
• Added databases for ForceWare 190.15, 190.38 and 190.56
• Added unified Windows 7 / Vista ForceWare drivers versions (8.15.xx.xxxx) support

DOWNLOAD: RivaTuner 2.24b (MSI MOA Edition)

The RivaTuner team today announced a new version of one of the popular graphics card performance-control and monitoring utilities. Rivatuner version 2.24 adds several new features and fixes minor bugs and issues found with the older version.

DOWNLOAD: RivaTuner v2.24

Detailed lists of bug-fixes and feature additions follow:

The very powerful videocard tweaking utility Rivatuner has been updated towards version 2.23. The full list of this release' updates and fixes follows below. To download it, please click here.

RivaTuner has just been updated to the New Year's build number v2.22. This release has a number of updates and fixes, but most importantly RivaTuner now supports skins.

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RivaTuner, a very powerful and easy to use video card tweaking utility, was updated today to version 2.21. This release has a small number of updates yet mainly is a hotfix for Grand Theft Auto 4 missing texture issue for some GeForce owners in combo with this tool. NVIDIA GeForce drivers 180.60, 180.70 and 180.84 as well as AMD/ATI Catalyst 8.12 are also supported now. For detailed information, please check out the changelist below.

DOWNLOAD: RivaTuner Version 2.21

RivaTuner, the popular graphics card tweaking utility, was updated today towards version 2.20. In this release the development team have included a huge number of new stuff to keep you busy, with the biggest change beeing the added Multi-GPU (SLI/CrossfireX) support. This release also adds support for ForceWare GeForce drivers up-to 180.48 WHQL and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.11.

DOWNLOAD: RivaTuner Version 2.20

Rivatuner has been updated towards version 2.11 In this release we have included a huge number of new stuff to keep you busy, obviously support has been added as well as ForceWare GeForce drivers up-to 177.98 and AMD ATI Catalyst 8.8 support (experimental).

With this release comes support for ATI Radeon HD 4600/4800 (RV710 and RV730) class graphics adapters and better GeForce GTX series 200 support (including GeForce GTX 260 Core 216) as well. We now also support much asked for proper fan control on AMD RADEON HD 4870 X2 series. To download this release of RivaTuner, please visit this page.

Alexey Nicolaychuk, popularly known by the computer enthusiast community as "Unwinder", creator of RivaTuner graphics card tweaking utility, lodged a strong protest against community members of NvNews for allegedly using slurs against his national identity. Community members of NvNews will not be able to post links to download RivaTuner as they are explicitly blocked by the author. Not that they can't get the software some way or another, but that it is more of a retaliation by Unwinder to contents of this thread, which portrays mockery against Russia and the recent Russian-Georgian conflict. The most recent license-agreement of RivaTuner now shows an added clause:

New license agreement explicitly restricts publishing any links to RivaTuner on www.nvnews.net homepage or in www.nvnews.net discussion forums. Russian software can not co-exist with the community tolerating anti-Russian nazism.

The popular video card utility Rivatuner has been updated today towards version 2.10. In this release developers have included a huge number of new stuff which is included in the full story body. To download the latest release of Rivatuner please click here.

On this page you can download the latest version of RivaTuner. In RivaTuner v2.09 you'll find some minor bugfixes, better driver support as well as added support for NVIDIA G96 and G100 (aka GT200).

Just one week after the last version was released, Guru3D has updated RivaTuner to version 2.08 which you can download from here. The changes are as follows:

Minor bugfixes:

• RivaTuner no longer crashes when RivaTuner module activation launcher item is scheduled to run at Windows startup.
• Fixed association between low-level refresh overrider rules and target display adapter, broken due to low-level profiles association related changes in the previous version.
• Minor UI and localization fixes.

On this page you can download the latest version of RivaTuner. RivaTuner v2.07 comes with some minor bugfixes:

• Fixed default values for Direct3D Intellisample slider and "Clamp negative mipmap LOD bias" option.
• State of global OSD visibility setting is no longer lost when any other option is being changed immediately after changing the global OSD visibility setting in the properties of bundled RivaTunerStatisticsServer application.
• Minor UI and localization fixes.

You can read what's new in this version here.

RivaTuner is a powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon videocards. This version adds new user interface for independent G8x GPU family shader clock control as well as some minor UI changes and improvements.

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RivaTuner is a powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon based videocards. Minor bugfixes in version 2.04:

• Fixed overclocking algorithms for ATI R3xx/R4xx GPU families, broken due to MMIO protection introduced in the previous version.
• Fixed gamma correct antialiasing option for G7x GPU families, broken due to G8x related gamma correct antialiasing related changes in the previous version.
• Fixed bug in the installer script, preventing automatic update installation system from installing the updates from a folder containing spaces in the path.
• RivaTuner no longer stops working with access violation error when I/O driver is not loaded.
• Minor UI and localization fixes.

Read the Rivatuner FAQ for complete list of bugfixes.

Download: RivaTuner v2.04 (2.2MB)

Guru3D.com has posted a new version of the popular RivaTuner tweaking software. The new RivaTuner v2.03 adds support for ForceWare 162.18, 162.22, 162.50, 163.16 and 163.44 as well as ATI's Catalyst 7.7 and 7.8 drivers. For the full list of fixes, please click here.

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Rivatuner is a powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon based videocards. This version adds support for NVIDIA G84 and G86 GPU family as well as some minor UI and localization fixes.

RivaTuner Version 2.01 for Windows 2000/XP/Vista x64 & x32 (2.2MB)