Displaying FPS with Nvidia

[omniphil]

I had a x800 Pro and using the Ati Tray tools, I got a nice FPS monitor and gpu/mem temps that displayed up in the corner of the screen while in games. Is there something like that for nvidia owners?

The built in NVtweak seems to have the auto overclocking that I used in ati tray tools which is great, but it only seems to change the core up and down, not the ram speed? Is that normal? I figure I want to bring both gpu and mem down when back in 2d windows....

 

[orangat]

I don't think so, I just use fraps.
Nvidia cards change change speed in the display settings for 2d/3d if you enable the tweak option in the registry.
Just get rivatuner and customise system settings which will enable it and you can then modify using RT or display settings.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Yes, there is an option to display FPS (and Mem usage) for nvidia cards, but I can't remember what I used to enable it (I don't use Windows anymore)...

edit >> here is a screeny from Far Cry with the stats enabled.

 

[omniphil]

 

[omniphil]

Is using fraps for just FPS display overkill?

Is Riva turner the prefered app for overclocking? currently I'm using the NVtweak from the standard drivers using the registry hack. What if anything will another program offer?

On a side note, going from ati to nvidia, I have more free memory now when my machine initially boots up.

With ati used ram at boot up was 121mb, now its 99mb, weird...

 

[Cheesetogo]

What's wrong with fraps? It's free, and it displays your framerates.

 

[omniphil]

I was just wondering if there is any driver that had that function built in, i'm anal about having things run in the background, i like my system lean and mean Here's a shot of my task manager right on boot up..

http://home.comcast.net/~omniphil/tasks.jpg

And that is with the old ati card, with the new nvidia card the mem usuage is down to 99mb (from 121mb) on start up for some reason...

The Ati Tray Tools also did onscreen GPU and System temps which was nice too...

 

[2Xtreme21]

I'd go with FRAPS. Honestly, having that ATI Tray running in your background will hog up more system resources than FRAPS ever will.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
I'd go with FRAPS. Honestly, having that ATI Tray running in your background will hog up more system resources than FRAPS ever will.

:thumbsup:

FRAPS is pretty lean and mean.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
I'd go with FRAPS. Honestly, having that ATI Tray running in your background will hog up more system resources than FRAPS ever will.

Seems like its pretty much a wash actually, On my rig (at idle), Fraps uses at least ~ twice the memory as ATI Traytools (6836K vs 3736K) and ATI traytools uses slightly higher CPU utilization 0 to 2%, while fraps hangs <1%.

Disabling the GPU temp in the tray, ATI Tray tools uses evenless mem @ 1544K