konakona
Diamond Member
I have been using faststone/xnview for image viewing and simple editing up until now (no, I didn't like irfanview much), until I saw a suggestion for Zoner photo studio 12 free.
Had to give it a try for so much praise it gets, liked its interface, seems lightweight and all is well except for one minor quibble: every time I lanuch the program to view images, my GPU ramps up its fan. I am guessing there is some sort of GPU acceleration going on in the background, which puts the card into 3d mode (thus loading the associated fan profile). The card being an overclocked gtx470, the roar of its fan at 70% isn't exactly very comforting.
For fan profiles, I am using afterburner. I know I could use rivatuner instead for per-application profiles, but could not find any voltage tweaks there. Afterburner does all I need quite well, don't feel a need to switch (though I know the same guy makes both programs with same backend, I just like afterburner's UI better).
I don't ever do any heavy editing outside of occasional cropping and resizing, and most of times I am just viewing regular jpegs of relatively low size anyway(web images, not my own photos). Doubtful that 3d acceleration is really needed here all that much, so wish to turn it off if possible.
In the end, all it takes is to bring up afterburner's window and summon 2d profile so no biggie. Just wondering if there is a simpler way to do this.
Had to give it a try for so much praise it gets, liked its interface, seems lightweight and all is well except for one minor quibble: every time I lanuch the program to view images, my GPU ramps up its fan. I am guessing there is some sort of GPU acceleration going on in the background, which puts the card into 3d mode (thus loading the associated fan profile). The card being an overclocked gtx470, the roar of its fan at 70% isn't exactly very comforting.
For fan profiles, I am using afterburner. I know I could use rivatuner instead for per-application profiles, but could not find any voltage tweaks there. Afterburner does all I need quite well, don't feel a need to switch (though I know the same guy makes both programs with same backend, I just like afterburner's UI better).
I don't ever do any heavy editing outside of occasional cropping and resizing, and most of times I am just viewing regular jpegs of relatively low size anyway(web images, not my own photos). Doubtful that 3d acceleration is really needed here all that much, so wish to turn it off if possible.
In the end, all it takes is to bring up afterburner's window and summon 2d profile so no biggie. Just wondering if there is a simpler way to do this.
