GF6600GT in Win 7...how to OC?

[JETninja]

Just loaded Win 7 RC (dual boot w/XP Pro) on my old nForce2 Abit NFS-7 rig, has a XP-M, GF6600GT, 2GB of Ram. So far runs good (just loaded it tonight, had to do some work arounds since nVidia did not support the chipset after XP)

In XP I always use the Coolbits2 reg entries to enable overclocking on the card. I just installed the 185.85 WHQL drivers and no OC settings in them. Since I'm new to 7 (and never ran Vista) I'm wondering how I get that in there. I game a lot and need every little bit till I can build a new rig end of Summer.

Thanks!

 

[error8]

Try Riva Tuner, but really now, even if you play older games, there is no point in ocing this ancient card.

 

[JETninja]

actually when playing rFactor it helps a fair amount. I'm in a racing league. I have OC''d it for years. Need to find out how to do that in 7.

It would be wonderful if we could all afford new rigs anytime....little tough with a family of 6.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: error8
Try Riva Tuner, but really now, even if you play older games, there is no point in ocing this ancient card.

Riva Tuner doesn't work with Windows 7 (the Windows 7 NVIDIA driver to be more specific), but EVGA's Precision (which is based on Riva Tuner) does. Precision requires an EVGA login to download, but apparently it works with all brands of cards. I'm not sure if it supports cards as old as the 6600GT though.

edit: also maybe try Gainward's Expertool.

 

[TemjinGold]

Originally posted by: JETninja
actually when playing rFactor it helps a fair amount. I'm in a racing league. I have OC''d it for years. Need to find out how to do that in 7.

It would be wonderful if we could all afford new rigs anytime....little tough with a family of 6.

Hope I don't sound mean or anything but what benefit would you derive from moving to Win7 with that system? Why not just stick with XP?

 

[fffblackmage]

Fortunately Rivatuner does work in Win7. In fact, I recently reformatted my laptop with Win7 and installed the same 185.85 drivers. You need to use 'driver emulation' to get rivatuner to work with the new drivers.

So, open up rivatuner
go to 'power user' tab
click the bottom left button (button looks like a folder) to open 'RivaTuner.rtd'
expand the 'system' node (should be at the top of the list)
scroll down and find 'ForceDriverVersion'
in the bottom row of buttons, there should be a button controlling hexadecimal and decimal display (looks like '0xD 0xA')
make sure it is unselected/so that you can enter decimal values and not hexadecimal
now, enter "18585" for 'ForceDriverVersion'.
make sure the setting is applied and close rivatuner
reopen and, hopefully, it worked. It still won't properly see the driver like it normally does, but you should be able to at least use the overclocking tools.

And I'm not the one who discovered this, I found this out from someone at some forum who found it from someone at guru3d or something like that.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: fffblackmage
Fortunately Rivatuner does work in Win7. In fact, I recently reformatted my laptop with Win7 and installed the same 185.85 drivers. You need to use 'driver emulation' to get rivatuner to work with the new drivers.

So, open up rivatuner
go to 'power user' tab
click the bottom left button (button looks like a folder) to open 'RivaTuner.rtd'
expand the 'system' node (should be at the top of the list)
scroll down and find 'ForceDriverVersion'
in the bottom row of buttons, there should be a button controlling hexadecimal and decimal display (looks like '0xD 0xA')
make sure it is unselected/so that you can enter decimal values and not hexadecimal
now, enter "18585" for 'ForceDriverVersion'.
make sure the setting is applied and close rivatuner
reopen and, hopefully, it worked. It still won't properly see the driver like it normally does, but you should be able to at least use the overclocking tools.

And I'm not the one who discovered this, I found this out from someone at some forum who found it from someone at guru3d or something like that.

I'll have to check this out.

Thanks!

 

[JETninja]

Originally posted by: TemjinGold

Originally posted by: JETninja
actually when playing rFactor it helps a fair amount. I'm in a racing league. I have OC''d it for years. Need to find out how to do that in 7.

It would be wonderful if we could all afford new rigs anytime....little tough with a family of 6.

Hope I don't sound mean or anything but what benefit would you derive from moving to Win7 with that system? Why not just stick with XP?

Long story, something is Fubar with the FD controller on the MB. Have tried many FD's, Cables, Reloaded the Bios...nada. Why do I need the FD? These bios only allow loading of SATA drivers with a Floppy. I run 4 HD's, 2 are SATA's. This WinXP load is a good 5yrs old...and I cannot reload XP unless I remove the Sata HD's.

Vista was out of the question so I never looked into it. Win 7 comes out and I hear is snappy on even Netbooks. Problem, nVidia did not support nForce2 chipsets after WinXP. I found a work around and it works! (you can see my post in the AMD/Abit forums at PC Perspective.)

So I have a dual boot setup until I can migrate all over to 7. It runs fine on this system. Yeah, I don't play crysis, but I have a lot of Steam Games, I run in several rFactor leagues, Flightsims, WWII Online, and Silkroad. (I'm 50 fyi) It does all of those well to this day, but I do get certain hiccups at times due to the old XP load.

Has anyone even tried the Coolbits2 reg stuff in Vista or 7? Just wondering....