What's a good tool to overclock my 8800GTS under Vista 64-bit?

[SickBeast]

I tried Nvidia's tuning software, but it gave me problems.

I want software that will automatically overclock the card for me when I boot windows. Ntune gave me all sorts of popups when I tried to set it to do that, and it just seemed buggy overall.

Any suggestions? Should I just flash my BIOS?

 

[n7]

If you haven't installed the Performance & Reliability & Compatibility updates yet, you can do the ddisable driver signing trick, but if you have, thus far, it appears we're screwed

If not:

All you have to do is type "cmd" in the Search Box included in the Vista Start menu. Next, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open a command prompt window with elevated privileges. Now enter bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS in order to disable Driver Signing and reboot.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: n7
If you haven't installed the Performance & Reliability & Compatibility updates yet, you can do the ddisable driver signing trick, but if you have, thus far, it appears we're screwed

If not:

All you have to do is type "cmd" in the Search Box included in the Vista Start menu. Next, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open a command prompt window with elevated privileges. Now enter bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS in order to disable Driver Signing and reboot.

I've installed them.

Vista is so annoying. DX10 doesn't seem to boost performance, either. :thumbsdown:

 

[Srfrbum]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: n7
If you haven't installed the Performance & Reliability & Compatibility updates yet, you can do the ddisable driver signing trick, but if you have, thus far, it appears we're screwed

If not:

All you have to do is type "cmd" in the Search Box included in the Vista Start menu. Next, press Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open a command prompt window with elevated privileges. Now enter bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS in order to disable Driver Signing and reboot.

I've installed them.

Vista is so annoying. DX10 doesn't seem to boost performance, either. :thumbsdown:

I don't think that DX10 was supposed to boost performance, was it ?

 

[Ika]

You know you can uninstall the Vista Compatibility pack, right? It's just a trade-off between what it fixes and what it breaks (in this case, transferring large files + game smoothness vs. driver signing). I wanted the driver signing much more than I wanted the other fix, so I uninstalled the one that broke driver signing. It's KB938979. Uninstall it through Programs and Features -> Windows Updates, then restart. Rivatuner should work as usual.

 

[Mem]

I use Gainward ExperTool 5.0, its basic but does not give me any problems with my Vista x64.Download link.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Mem
I use Gainward ExperTool 5.0, its basic but does not give me any problems with my Vista x64.Download link.

Thanks very much, Mem. :beer: