Overclocking with Nvidia 12.41 drivers?

[dhollcroft]

The usual registry hack does not work on these drivers(coolbits). Does anyone know how to enable the overclocking feature with these drivers.:Q

amd 1gig@1020
kt7 raid
asus geforce2 gts
256 133@136 cl2
75 gig deskstar
xgamer 5.1

 

[trekin]

would like to know also. Anyone???

 

[OmegaXero]

Hey guys, I posted this exact same question a few days back. From what I was able to gather there is no way to enabled overclocking with NVidia's latest drivers. However, there is an excellent utility called NVmax. I've been using this to OC my GF2MX with the latest 12.41 drivers. It works great and you can set the utility to automatically load your OC settings at startup, just like with the CoolBits hack. I hope this helps

http://www.tweakfiles.com/video/nvmax.html

 

[GrumpyMan]

There is a way to enable it. You have to copy nvcpl.dll and nvqtwk.dll from a working version of say like the 12.0 drivers into your windows system32 file. It makes the 12.41 drivers work with coolbits once again.

 

[trekin]

Grumpy, have you yourself tried it. In another post there was info on installing just the first of the two .dll files and to put them into system. Well iam here to say now that it did not work that way. Looped my setup around and round thru shutdown after shutdown 5 times and finally gave up safe mode, which did me no good. Installing Win98 worked on the second try and now i am up hence the question.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Yeah I was mad because the 12.41's didn't work with the coolbits reg hack, so skimming around here like I usually do one post mentioned this way of getting coolbits to work again. I tried it, and voila, I am now running the official drivers with the overclocking features enabled. I run Win 2000 so I put those two dlls in the windows system32 file. In Win 98 if I remember correctly it's the windows/system folder in explorer. Worked great! Make sure you get the dll's from a known working coolbits driver version like the 6.5 or the 12.0's. Reboot and your done or should be that is. Oh yeah make sure you put in both files, not just one of them, I saw that post too.

 

[dhollcroft]

i replaced nvcpl.dll and nvqtwk.dll in the new drivers with the same ones from the older drivers and now coolbits works but i'm not sure if i'm getting the most from the drivers using this method. every thing works fine and i have good performance. 74fps at 1280x1024 32bit on mdk2 with all settings at max and 65fps at the same resolution and settings in q3 demo.

asus geforce2 gts 32mb
amd 1gig
abit kt7 raid

 

[GrumpyMan]

Now that is another question. Perhaps someone who is more knowledgeable could answer that, you can turn off vertical sync in D3D with the coolbits hack too.

 

[trekin]

Grump, You da man !!!!!!

Good info. Everything works as it should. In touch with the other post found his was for Win2K.
Only had a copy of the 6.5 on hand but it did the trick.
Thanks Again

 

[dhollcroft]

does anyone know why people keep talking about 12.60 drivers. where are they supposedly getting these drivers. why does nvidia only have 12.41 on their website. are these 12.60 users smoking something extraordinary??????

 

[byr0n]

www.guru3d.com has the 12.60 beta drivers

 

[dhollcroft]

has any one enabled cool bits and used it seccessfully with 12.60 drivers

 

[GrumpyMan]

With the 12.6 drivers coolbits supposedly works, but is beta of course. I haven't tried those.