need an older program for overclocking the graphics card ?

[m4rtin]

I have an older ATI graphics card and I would like to tweak it a little :) The card is ATI Rage PRO AGP 2x. Firstly I had some trouble with finding the suitable drivers for that card and for my operating system (Windows XP Home SP2). Finally I found those:
http://img464.imageshack.us/img464/7730/atidrivers510260060100mi.th.jpg (http://img464.imageshack.us/my.php?image=atidrivers510260060100mi.jpg)
They work fine, but now I can't fint the suitable program (or program version) for changing the core and memory clock. I have tried two different (but both were rather new) versions of RivaTuner and ATI Tool. Both brograms did'nt support my drivers :(

Is there any program at the "market", which supports older cards and older drivers ? Or any other suggestions?

[MrSeanKon]

Look here the 6th part (http://www.octech.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378&start=15) hope to find what you need. :)

[m4rtin]

Look here the 6th part (http://www.octech.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?t=378&start=15) hope to find what you need. :)
you have done a great job collecting a lot of different OC tools together :toast:
I had'nt tried two programs of your list before- the Rage 3D and RadLinker. The Rage 3D said during the installation, that the video card was not supported :confused:
http://img453.imageshack.us/img453/4546/rage3dinstallationerror2lq.th.jpg (http://img453.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rage3dinstallationerror2lq.jpg)
However, the RadLinker seems to be most promising. I can set core- and memoryclock values, but how can I boot with the new values (the program alwayse resets the values that I have given)? Another wierd thing is, that I can set values up to 1000 MHz and more, but no artifacts are occured. That means that clock settings are not saved and activated. How can I save the clock settings ? If I click the SET button:
http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/637/radlinkerclockchange6ba.th.jpg (http://img348.imageshack.us/my.php?image=radlinkerclockchange6ba.jpg)
If I click USE CURRENT:
http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/637/radlinkerclockchange6ba.th.jpg (http://img348.imageshack.us/my.php?image=radlinkerclockchange6ba.jpg)
If I click the BIOS DEFAULTS button, then nothing happens- no restart :confused:

Can somebody help or suggest another program or drivers which are supported by my Windows XP, graphics card (ATI Rage PRO Turbo) and some kind of VGA OC program?

[corvus_corax]

For old cards RadLinker works fine. I'd suggest PowerStrip too.

[craig588]

Do you know if the PLL on your card is programmable or locked in at set frequencies? Or does it even have one?

[m4rtin]

For old cards RadLinker works fine. I'd suggest PowerStrip too.
I don't know...for me the RadLinker isn't working :confused: However, I tried the PowerStrip and it is seems to be working :) After the installation and rebooting I started the PowerStrip and I saw my cards GPU/memory clocks and they seemed to be logical: 75/100 MHz.

http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/9461/powerstripdefault5up.th.jpg (http://img319.imageshack.us/my.php?image=powerstripdefault5up.jpg)

Then I started to raise those settings: 100/117 ( 100 MHz is the peak for the GPU clock that program allows and for memory the 117 seems to be maximum, because if I push it further, the memory clock jumps to 60 MHz :confused: ). I click the Apply and reboot and start the PowerStrip- settings are 100/117 :woot:

So it seems to be working, but could somebody explain those questions with the clock settings ?



And one more problem: to be sure and test the progress after overclocking, I downloaded the 3Dmakr2001 and tried to run it. For some reason, the 3Dmark2001 seems to have problems to communicate with my card. Have a look at that error:
http://img318.imageshack.us/img318/3513/3dmarkerror6wm.th.jpg (http://img318.imageshack.us/my.php?image=3dmarkerror6wm.jpg)

I tried the both- with overclocking the card and with default clocks. The result is the same :(


Do you know if the PLL on your card is programmable or locked in at set frequencies? Or does it even have one?
What is the PLL ? It is not that (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PLL.html), is it ?:) If it is, then could you please put it into a simple words ? And is there any way I can see it visually on my card or do I have to look it up from the manual ?