Evga Voltage Tuner

[dan7777]

It seems that it doesn't work with Vista 64...

Same here i get same error msg

[Jamesrt2004]

It seems that it doesn't work with Vista 64...

change the path where rivatuner is tooooooo

programfiles/rivatuner2.22 etc (whatever it is)


so thats it NOT in programfile (x86)/riva........ etc....

might work =]

[jasonelmore]

arrrgghh.. i wish you rivatuner users would get a thread.. i keep thinking they released the beta or something for the evga voltage tool everytime i see this thread bumped

[Eagleclaw]

It would be nice, and easy to do

arrrgghh.. i wish you rivatuner users would get a thread.. i keep thinking they released the beta or something for the evga voltage tool everytime i see this thread bumped

[Diverge]

Same here i get same error msg

It should work on vista 64. I did my testing on windows server 2008 64bit, pretty much same thing.

[EL RICHARDO]

It should work on vista 64. I did my testing on windows server 2008 64bit, pretty much same thing.

I've reinstalled Rivatuner and i have the same error message... Well, i put the voltage manually in a Rivatuner Task Schedular and is working great...

[Angmaar]

Does Diverge's voltage tuner work with all video cards? (i have a 9600gt would it work with that?)

[Diverge]

Does Diverge's voltage tuner work with all video cards? (i have a 9600gt would it work with that?)

It's nothing but a GUI. So if you could control voltage with rivatuner via the VT1103 plugin, then it might work for you.

[Angmaar]

Thanks, this program should be awesome!!

[Diverge]

here's a new version of the GUI. it lets you select /sd0,1,2,3 and i2c bus 0,1,2,3 so it can be used on different cards, and setups with multi-gpus.

By default, its setup for 280gtx.

You can even use rivatuners launcher function, and assign it a hot key.. if you want

btw, sorry for all the off topic post... since this is supposed to be evga voltage control thread.

[Anth Seebel]

Cheers dude!

[Warboy]

You should make it read valves for it too.

Same here i get same error msg

I get that error too.

[Rinaun]

you sure you guys are putting it in the rivatuner directory? I only received that error when trying to start it from my desktop before realizing this.

Just checking is all.

[Diverge]

You should make it read valves for it too.



I get that error too.

I would have already if I knew how to get the values from rivatuner. As far as I know it only passes them into that window that pops up. Which I have no clue on how to grab the values from. If it passed them to the dos window it would be easy for me to get them... I even tried passing them to a text file at the dos window using "rivatuner /ri3,70,reg_address >text_file.txt".. no luck.

also, that error you guys are getting is cause it can't find rivatuner.exe. It only looks in the directory the GUI.exe is, so it needs to be in the same directory as rivatuner.exe as Rinaun said above - as was noted in the first post I made about the GUI.

[Breathless]

how about an "apply at startup" option

[p2501]

how about an "apply at startup" option

Why do that if RT has a perfectly working scheduler for that purpose?

[NaMcO]

As opposed to almost everyone in here (), i was fiddling with RivaTuner trying to lower my idle VGPU so it would use less power while in Windows, but i didn't manage to reduce anything at all. I dropped the voltage to as low as 0.9 volts but the indicated current consumption is the same throughout the test, always at 2.42 amps. Oh well.

[EL RICHARDO]

here's a new version of the GUI. it lets you select /sd0,1,2,3 and i2c bus 0,1,2,3 so it can be used on different cards, and setups with multi-gpus.

By default, its setup for 280gtx.

You can even use rivatuners launcher function, and assign it a hot key.. if you want

btw, sorry for all the off topic post... since this is supposed to be evga voltage control thread.

Great Work!!! And yes the utility needs to be in the Rivatuner's folder...

[Breathless]

Why do that if RT has a perfectly working scheduler for that purpose?

To give the full control of this from one window without having to fiddle with the scheduler. Also because I am lazy.

[EL RICHARDO]

here's a new version of the GUI. it lets you select /sd0,1,2,3 and i2c bus 0,1,2,3 so it can be used on different cards, and setups with multi-gpus.

By default, its setup for 280gtx.

You can even use rivatuners launcher function, and assign it a hot key.. if you want

btw, sorry for all the off topic post... since this is supposed to be evga voltage control thread.

Hey Diverge, any possibility to implement Voltage Register choosing? Because my friend's GTX 260 uses 17 instead of 15 so it doesn't work... Thank's...

[mikeyakame]

Diverge,

Use return values from Rivatuner. It should give them. I take it you are calling it with something like. In C I would do something like:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
...
int rt_ret = 0;
sprintf(buf, "rivatuner.exe /ri%d,%s,%s\n", BUS_NUM, BUS_ADDR, REG_OFFSET");
rt_ret = system("buf");
switch(rt_ret) {
case 0: printf("Volterra VR detected\n");
goto next;
case 1: printf("Volterra VR not detected\n");
goto exit_fail;
}

next:
read_i2c_vr_reg(argv[0]);
...

exit_fail:
printf("You are unable to use this application because your hardware isn't supported\n");
return 1;
...
}

I just woke up so I'm still half asleep but something like that should work in theory. Unwinder would no doubt have return values

[Diverge]

Diverge,

Use return values from Rivatuner. It should give them. I take it you are calling it with something like. In C I would do something like:

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
...
int rt_ret = 0;
sprintf(buf, "rivatuner.exe /ri%d,%s,%s\n", BUS_NUM, BUS_ADDR, REG_OFFSET");
rt_ret = system("buf");
switch(rt_ret) {
case 0: printf("Volterra VR detected\n");
goto next;
case 1: printf("Volterra VR not detected\n");
goto exit_fail;
}

next:
read_i2c_vr_reg(argv[0]);
...

exit_fail:
printf("You are unable to use this application because your hardware isn't supported\n");
return 1;
...
}

I just woke up so I'm still half asleep but something like that should work in theory. Unwinder would no doubt have return values

It's possible RT returns values, but it doesn't return them to the command line. If it did, i'd be able to get them using the following:

            System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); //create my process
            proc.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
            //String sMyPath = Environment.CurrentDirectory;
            proc.StartInfo.FileName = "devcon.exe";                                //name of file to run
            proc.StartInfo.Arguments = " ";
            proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;                       //setup redirection
            proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;                             //redirect from shell to
            proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;                               //hide shell
            proc.Start();
            String cmd_out = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
            MessageBox.Show(cmd_out);

Problem is I'm not an experienced programmer, so I have no clue how to do this with applications that don't display values on the command line.

The above example is a piece of code I used to make a GUI for devcon, which is a microsoft command line utility that lets you manipulate devices in your computer - basically device manager, but via command line. Instead of displaying the info at the command line prompt, the code redirects it into a string, and then I can parse it, to read status, find device id's ect. In the above example it just displays it in a messagebox. (i made the GUI to turn off devices in my laptop to extend battery live... it's a lot easier then going to device manager to disable them).

Unfortunately this is the way I have the GUI run rivatuner to set the voltage control registers, and it doesn't redirect anything for me to parse, cause it doesn't display the info in the dos box (command line). it displays it in it's own GUI (rivatuner).

Like I said, I'm n00b at programming. So if you have any visual C# examples that work to return RT value, i'll be glad to try to make it work.

[mikeyakame]

It's possible RT returns values, but it doesn't return them to the command line. If it did, i'd be able to get them using the following:

            System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); //create my process
            proc.EnableRaisingEvents = false;
            //String sMyPath = Environment.CurrentDirectory;
            proc.StartInfo.FileName = "devcon.exe";                                //name of file to run
            proc.StartInfo.Arguments = " ";
            proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;                       //setup redirection
            proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;                             //redirect from shell to
            proc.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;                               //hide shell
            proc.Start();
            String cmd_out = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
            MessageBox.Show(cmd_out);

Problem is I'm not an experienced programmer, so I have no clue how to do this with applications that don't display values on the command line.

The above example is a piece of code I used to make a GUI for devcon, which is a microsoft command line utility that lets you manipulate devices in your computer - basically device manager, but via command line. Instead of displaying the info at the command line prompt, the code redirects it into a string, and then I can parse it, to read status, find device id's ect. In the above example it just displays it in a messagebox. (i made the GUI to turn off devices in my laptop to extend battery live... it's a lot easier then going to device manager to disable them).

Unfortunately this is the way I have the GUI run rivatuner to set the voltage control registers, and it doesn't redirect anything for me to parse, cause it doesn't display the info in the dos box (command line). it displays it in it's own GUI (rivatuner).

Like I said, I'm n00b at programming. So if you have any visual C# examples that work to return RT value, i'll be glad to try to make it work.

Heh we all gotta learn from somewhere right. For Visual C# examples have you checked Windows Platform SDK? and MSDN Library that comes with Visual Studio 2008 (if using that)?

I'll install Intel CPP Compiler on my Windows 7 and make up a small C app to see what Rivatuner returns and get back to you. I really should read SDK docs but don't have much time at the moment.

Personally I've never written anything in C#, even my C++ GUI abilities are poor, but I can write in C++ so so. Mostly I can write in C since it is more where I have spent my time learning.

[Breathless]

Something weird is happening to me when I overclock and stability test after voltage adjustment. I have a XFX GTX280 XXX water cooled by my Coolit Boreas. I also have an awesome power supply, the Antec Signature 850. All temps are cool (water cooling). Power supply rails look good and don't really budge (even when stability testing).

I am using Furmark as suggested to test the voltage. After increasing the voltage to 1.30 and then running the Furmark stability test my computer shuts off. It doesn't even visually start the test yet and my computer powers down. It does not do this unless I increase the voltage. I noticed that the voltage regulator jumps to 92amps when starting the test. Is this normal for it to jump to such high amps? I played Crysis just to compare and it jumps to about 50 or 60 tops.

After I reduced the voltage to 1.25, the system doesn't shut off anymore... What do you guys think? Power Supply? Somekind of Voltage protection?

[xdan]

Hey, guys it's a chance for me tu use this voltage control from Rivatuner on a Palit 9600GSO 768MB, or it just for GTX series?