Need a windowed 3D program.

[shortylickens]

I am looking for a 3D program that will run windowed on my desktop. It should be able to stress my 8800GT. My monitor goes up to 2048x1536 so anything that will go up to around that res in windowed mode will be great.

I'd like to use the Nvidia control panel to monitor my temps while pushing the GPU to its limits.

If anyone knows of a full-screen stress test that also displays GPU temps I would settle for that.

I'd go with either OpenGL or Direct3D. A program that does both would be cool.
Tried digging around all the usual 3D sites but cant find anything that suits my purposes.

For those of you who are curious, its at 45 c right now but thats not running a game and with my Vornado fan pointed into the open case.

 

[TC91]

why not just run a stress test app like furmark or rthdrl and have rivatuner monitoring in the background and then go back and check rivatuner by alt-tabbing?

 

[SonicIce]

Actually I don't think a higher res makes it heat ap much more at all. Like a 640x480 window is probably the same as a 1280x960 window. That's just my guess, though. Almost any game can run in a window. I think windowed mode heats up the same as fullscreen mode too. Just run a game in a window and temp monitor on the side and arrange windows so you can see both. Maybe try a few differant games because some make it heat up more than others.

Rivatuner can display the temp in the corner of any fullscreen game if you set it up right. I wouldn't suggest the alt-tab method because by the time the screen gets back to your desktop, the temp will have gone down at least 5c.

 

[ZebuluniteV]

I was recently doing some stress testing of my own for the same reasons you are. thread. As TC91 mentioned, FurMark can run in a windowed mode, and at 1280x1024 windowed with 32X AA it pushed my temps higher than any other program I've tried. As far as actual games, I know all the Source-based games (HL2, Team Fortress 2, etc) can be run in windowed mode as well, though in my own testing running those even at the highest settings did not push my temps as high as FurMark.

Edit: In case you were wondering, I used GPU-Z with the "update while running in background" setting enabled to measure temps while running the above.

 

[drinklime]

dont any of these temperature monitors support logging? I havent been able to find any that do

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: drinklime
dont any of these temperature monitors support logging?

Nvidia System Tools does logging, plus the output is in an XML file, making it easy to convert/import, plus comes with an XLS stylesheet so you can just view it as tables within your web browser. Neato! You can customize what it logs (GPU, ambient, CPU, fan RPMs, whatever it supports) and set the interval.

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: drinklime
dont any of these temperature monitors support logging? I havent been able to find any that do

riva tuner does too

 

[bob4432]

download the crysis demo and then this benchmark tool - http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1791 and then your gpu setup and you should be good to go.