File Details |
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| File Size | 2.6 MB |
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| License | Freeware |
| Operating System | Windows 2000/9x/Server 2003/Vista/XP |
| Date Added | August 23, 2009 |
| Total Downloads | 81,487 |
| Publisher | Alex Unwinder |
| Homepage | RivaTuner |
Publisher's Description
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.
Latest Reviews
Virtual_ManPL reviewed v2.24c on Aug 25, 2009
5/5
awesome tool for overclockers, this program have many hided settings for nVidia cards ;)
OAKsider reviewed v2.24b on Aug 18, 2009
RivaTuner is one of the finest apps ever created for graphics cards, and freeware at that. A must-have tool for anything GPU-related, from monitoring temperatures to adjusting fan control to overclocking, and setting automated schedules for them all. Indispensable, indeed! Thanks Unwinder.
johnk119 reviewed v2.24 on Mar 22, 2009
indispensable
darkelvi18 reviewed v2.24 on Mar 9, 2009
lo mejor
Somnambulator reviewed v2.24 on Feb 27, 2009
i experience some of the bugs mentioned as fixed in patch notes. while i moved to ATI very recently and wont be testing this latest release, the previous releases were top notch. this release, assuming it doesnt create new bugs, is a must for anyone running RT.
subtracted 1 star due to its huge learning curve relative to most other gfx programs. it took me weeks to figure out all the ins and outs of the program, and while there is sometimes decent documentation on what RT can do and how to do it, i found googling more beneficial than RT's actual help and walkthroughs.
for ATI cards, Ati Tray Tools is a much better app due to its more simplistic nature and doing a majority of the more common features RT does. ATT lacks a G15 plugin which is the only thing i really miss from RT (though i have a seperate G15 plugin called WVS that supports ATT but it is a little buggy)
horsecharles reviewed v2.20 on Nov 20, 2008
Ok Sativarg & Durden500-- I respect your opinions.
I guess there's a price to pay for using RivaTuner-- just like the stereotypical great byob restaurant that's located in a hard to find location w/ perhaps inconvenient access. It's hard to fathom that for such an advanced / technically superior app...eehhh...
I've actually just been bit with a hankering to see how much i can accomplish with Riva, esp. on Vista, on a couple of systems-- will set aside some time to devote to that.
Vimes reviewed v2.11 on Sep 17, 2008
Feature rich it is indeed. Intuitive it certainly isn't. Have not got he patience to wade through its humongous amount of features when its slimmer, compact and more agile sibling EVGA precision can do what I need in a simple, uncluttered way.
andrewbmoore reviewed v2.10 on Sep 2, 2008
Feature-rich and quite powerful tool. I use it to throttle my video card speed way down when I'm not playing games to save power and reduce heat. It's tricky to use for a beginner, but the features more than make up for it.
Sativarg reviewed v2.09 on Apr 30, 2008
RE:Reviewer: horsecharles
If you are not accustomed to guru3d.com it can seem daunting to actually download the file. Especially if after clicking the "Download Now" link you do not see the frame marked:
home » downloads » RivaTuner v2.09
In which you must click "I Agree" at the bottom. In my browser the frame is below the bottom of the window when I have Clipfolio open as a TopBar.
Please, horsecharles, consider amending your vote as it is not the fault of the product that the site is not user friendly.
durden500 reviewed v2.08 on Mar 10, 2008
This is for "horsecharles." First of all, it's free! But still, free without function wouldn't merit a 5. The good news is though, (and maybe horsecharles doesn't read the news?), this product has great functionality and continues to grow for the better. You can not only overclock and or just check the clocks speed of the core/memory/shader, you can also adjust the fan speeds too! Also, lots of other tweeks inside this great product. I find it strange that no one else had all your problems downloading this...Hmmm.
Virtual_ManPL reviewed v2.24c on Aug 25, 2009
5/5
awesome tool for overclockers, this program have many hided settings for nVidia cards ;)
OAKsider reviewed v2.24b on Aug 18, 2009
RivaTuner is one of the finest apps ever created for graphics cards, and freeware at that. A must-have tool for anything GPU-related, from monitoring temperatures to adjusting fan control to overclocking, and setting automated schedules for them all. Indispensable, indeed! Thanks Unwinder.
johnk119 reviewed v2.24 on Mar 22, 2009
indispensable
darkelvi18 reviewed v2.24 on Mar 9, 2009
lo mejor
Somnambulator reviewed v2.24 on Feb 27, 2009
i experience some of the bugs mentioned as fixed in patch notes. while i moved to ATI very recently and wont be testing this latest release, the previous releases were top notch. this release, assuming it doesnt create new bugs, is a must for anyone running RT.
subtracted 1 star due to its huge learning curve relative to most other gfx programs. it took me weeks to figure out all the ins and outs of the program, and while there is sometimes decent documentation on what RT can do and how to do it, i found googling more beneficial than RT's actual help and walkthroughs.
for ATI cards, Ati Tray Tools is a much better app due to its more simplistic nature and doing a majority of the more common features RT does. ATT lacks a G15 plugin which is the only thing i really miss from RT (though i have a seperate G15 plugin called WVS that supports ATT but it is a little buggy)
horsecharles reviewed v2.20 on Nov 20, 2008
Ok Sativarg & Durden500-- I respect your opinions.
I guess there's a price to pay for using RivaTuner-- just like the stereotypical great byob restaurant that's located in a hard to find location w/ perhaps inconvenient access. It's hard to fathom that for such an advanced / technically superior app...eehhh...
I've actually just been bit with a hankering to see how much i can accomplish with Riva, esp. on Vista, on a couple of systems-- will set aside some time to devote to that.
Vimes reviewed v2.11 on Sep 17, 2008
Feature rich it is indeed. Intuitive it certainly isn't. Have not got he patience to wade through its humongous amount of features when its slimmer, compact and more agile sibling EVGA precision can do what I need in a simple, uncluttered way.
andrewbmoore reviewed v2.10 on Sep 2, 2008
Feature-rich and quite powerful tool. I use it to throttle my video card speed way down when I'm not playing games to save power and reduce heat. It's tricky to use for a beginner, but the features more than make up for it.
Sativarg reviewed v2.09 on Apr 30, 2008
RE:Reviewer: horsecharles
If you are not accustomed to guru3d.com it can seem daunting to actually download the file. Especially if after clicking the "Download Now" link you do not see the frame marked:
home » downloads » RivaTuner v2.09
In which you must click "I Agree" at the bottom. In my browser the frame is below the bottom of the window when I have Clipfolio open as a TopBar.
Please, horsecharles, consider amending your vote as it is not the fault of the product that the site is not user friendly.
durden500 reviewed v2.08 on Mar 10, 2008
This is for "horsecharles." First of all, it's free! But still, free without function wouldn't merit a 5. The good news is though, (and maybe horsecharles doesn't read the news?), this product has great functionality and continues to grow for the better. You can not only overclock and or just check the clocks speed of the core/memory/shader, you can also adjust the fan speeds too! Also, lots of other tweeks inside this great product. I find it strange that no one else had all your problems downloading this...Hmmm.
bodean reviewed v2.07 on Mar 3, 2008
Great App. Recommend.
kronix2 reviewed v2.05 on Oct 1, 2007
One of the best graphics card tweak tools. It's currently the only app which lets you overclock 8800 series cards with the newest drivers.
horsecharles reviewed v2.05 on Sep 28, 2007
2 for how cumbersome finding download file and actually being able to download it w/o a hitch/gazillion clicks/disabling browser/popup blocker/etc... a sometimes endless download click loop....
Also, for the low-tech self-extract w/o install procedure, making one go find the extracted folder contents.
Sorry, i'm not a zombie lemming w/ tons of disposable time & ice cold blood pressure.
some guy reviewed v2.05 on Sep 28, 2007
direct link
http://downloads.guru3d....716ca3d6b2f7a050adb2724
rhinohide reviewed v2.04 on Sep 17, 2007
Fabulous tool. The author puts a huge amount of effort into this tool, and deserves high praise for digging all the secrets out of nvidia's drivers. Check the Rivatuner forum on Guru3d for some sticky threads that will help you get started. Trust me, it will help you get over the initial learning curve and make you appreciate the power of this tool.
Otherwise some of it's best features are hard to figure out.
What I wonder is why nvidia hides so many features and makes it so hard for 3rd party developers to write utilities. Makes no sense to me. I get a lot more enjoyment out of my video card when I have a good tweaking util to monkey around with it.
Andy Dean reviewed v2.01 on Apr 30, 2007
I've loved Riva Tuner for years now. After the initial learning curve you start to realise the power of this tool.
Now updated to recognise the latest drivers I think that this is essential for any gaming lover.
xiaozhang reviewed v2.0 RC 16.1 on Oct 25, 2006
Every Good
Blackhole8746 reviewed v2.0 RC 15.8 on Jan 7, 2006
What an astonishing program, does everything you might dream about in one small, sleek program, overclocking worked much better than my Leadtek WinFox II software, my cousin's GeForce 6600 TD is running at 350/550MHz easy, I own (2) GeForce 7800 GTX SLI so I didn't bother trying to OC
omarmakki reviewed v2.0 Release Candidate 15.7 on Sep 10, 2005
Just another great version...
All thanks go to Unwinder and Guru3D for this great program...
bourgeoisdude reviewed v2.0 Release Candidate 15.7 on Sep 9, 2005
Wow! I wish I'd heard of this thing before! Fixed my "artifacts" problem with the GF 6600 AGP...
gleniator reviewed v2.0 Release Candidate 15.4 on Apr 28, 2005
Really the greatest nvidia espescially Riva ever, the low level hardware overclock is so stable not like other methods, i free entering the nvidia registry, brilliant.
buddha_tree reviewed v2.0 Release Candidate 15.4 on Mar 5, 2005
"RivaTuner is a powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA based cards."
It think it should be mentioned that it is for BOTH ATI and Nvidia.
It has support for the latest Catalyst drivers and all ATI cards.
bohEMOian reviewed v2.0 RC 15.3 New Year Edition on Jan 2, 2005
Great program! I like it.
tedbieri reviewed v2.0 RC 15.1 on Oct 4, 2004
I have had a problem with my ti4200 not being able to run fastwrite over the past couple of months. Tryed everything, with this program it was fixed in less than 5 minutes! EXCELLENT!!!
sniggle reviewed v2.0 RC 15.1 on Sep 30, 2004
i like this app a lot. once you get used to the interface and where everything is, it's very easy to use. the coolest thing about these latest releases is the hardware monitor graphing. it's a very handy addition that lets me see how hot my card is getting, and how quickly it is happening.
httpd.confused reviewed v2.0 RC 15 on Jun 30, 2004
I tend to agree with bobad about the interface; it could stand a *lot* of improvement, and I place a lot of weight on interface design.
Still, RivaTuner works great, and is really powerful stuff. I appreciate all the "What's This?" right click help as well, since I have no idea what 99.9% of that stuff is!
bobad reviewed v2.0 RC 15 on Jun 29, 2004
The program actually works after you shovel all the tabs, popups, icons, registry reads, and all the fluff and confetti from the planet Neptune out of the way. I have been overclocking my video cards for many years, and used to like RivaTuner until it got totally ruined by the convoluted, unintuitive interface. May as well use the nVidia utility, which is also unintuitive. Too bad, because it's very solid technically. The author needs put this dog out of its mysery and start a new GUI from scratch.
gkar reviewed v2.0 RC 15 on Jun 29, 2004
PinkNuts, download a copy of coolbits, it will add overclocking to your nvidia driver panel. This program functions perfectly and adds low level overclocking. Always been a great program for me.
weed reviewed v2.0 RC 14.3 New Year Edition on Dec 30, 2003
Been using this for a long time. It never causes me any trouble, allows low level overclocking and has many features that make this the top utility of it's type in my opinion. AAA+++
BillBraskey reviewed v2.0 RC 14.3 New Year Edition on Dec 30, 2003
Pinky, if you have had to reinstall your OS, it is not riva tuner that is the problem..the issue at hand is that you are a complete retard and should not be allowed to use a computer.
MrPinkNuts reviewed v2.0 RC 14.2 on Dec 12, 2003
Forget about RivaTuner. It always makes my computer think it has less video memory than it really does have. Had to reinstall the os twice. Try a different graphics tweaking app.
scodan reviewed v2.0 RC 12.14 on Oct 1, 2003
This is awesome software--powerful, reliable, free, and easy to use. I only have an old GeForce3 card, but RivaTuner is still very handy for overclocking and for making refresh-rate tweaks. Alexey, the author, is one scary-smart dude.
weed reviewed v2.0 RC 12.2 on Jan 30, 2003
I have been using this program for quite a while now and it is Excellent. It lets you overclock via the drivers or low level (my favorite way). Works fine under WinXP. *****
Richard30ky reviewed v2.0 RC 12 on Sep 29, 2002
its the best for nvidea
you just simply need to know how to use it
i will admit it should come with more documentation
for first time users and its not for noobs
but i personaly can make my card come alive with this tool
cyberia reviewed v2.0 RC 11.1 on Jul 25, 2002
Great program, but FileForum wasn't hosting the new rev. when I downloaded a few minutes ago. Go to "Author's" site if you want the latest.
Palomino reviewed v2.0 RC 11 on Jun 26, 2002
I have to give this program 5 stars because it allows low level OC for free but it still has problems IMO. I can't set the AGP bus speed except using the nVidia drivers. AND...is this program EVER going to get out of release candidate status? I have never seen a final release of this program.
Bardware reviewed v2.0 RC 10.2 on Apr 15, 2002
The program does not work with Win95. The Help file says RC 6 was the latest to support Win95.
Why are ther only Release Candidates? Who changes the Supported operating systems from RC to RC? Where to obtain RC 6?
klumy reviewed v2.0 RC 10.1 on Apr 1, 2002
The author did a great job !!
A goof alternative to NVMax
chavv reviewed v2.0 RC 5 on Jun 29, 2001
That's simply the best program for tweaking NVidia based cards. The only feature that's missing is GeForce->Quadro in soft... :), maybe in version 3.x ? :)
Personaly I don't see what ELSE to add in program.
gable125 reviewed v2.0 RC on Jan 3, 2001
this sucks....its not win2k compatible