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ATI Tool

xiphrex

xiphrex

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Hi,

I recently got an ATI HD 4770 512mb and having read it has good overclocking potential, I really want to squeeze everything out of it.

I am using rivatuner just now but with that I can overclock right up even with the fan less than 100% and it seems okay, but then I was getting some peculiar game crashing after hours and hours.

I remember there was a problem called ATI Tool which basically did all the work for you and even detected minute particles of corruption that honestly I couldnt really see.

Unfortunately it doesnt seem to work for me with this card, wont even load the program. Latest 0.27beta also crashes the program instantly when you run it.

Are there any alternatives to ATI Tool or a way to get it working?
 
I seem to have problems with ati tool sometimes too, oddly when i had an 8800gt it worked fine. You could try using furmark instead, it won't auto detect artefacts but it should be quite obvious they are there because it's so hard on the card. (you might have to rename the exe for it to run at full speed)
 
jak731 said:
You could try using furmark
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Thats what Im currently using with rivatuner and it seems to work well, however Im finding that I can push the clockspeed way way up before I see any visible corruption, then when I lower it 20mhz or even 30mhz from that max clockspeed, it acts strangely in games which shouldnt be stressing the card that much, like counterstrike source. For example I could play for hours and hours with no problems, but then sometimes within minutes the game freezes then the screen goes black.

I think its obvious that shows Im overclocking too much but furmark didnt reveal any sort of problems at the same clockspeeds.

But with ATI tool it could have detected problems possibly before I could see them. Im as yet unsure if my clock is stable at the moment but it has not crashed yet.
 
xiphrex said:
Thats what Im currently using with rivatuner and it seems to work well, however Im finding that I can push the clockspeed way way up before I see any visible corruption, then when I lower it 20mhz or even 30mhz from that max clockspeed, it acts strangely in games which shouldnt be stressing the card that much, like counterstrike source. For example I could play for hours and hours with no problems, but then sometimes within minutes the game freezes then the screen goes black.

I think its obvious that shows Im overclocking too much but furmark didnt reveal any sort of problems at the same clockspeeds.

But with ATI tool it could have detected problems possibly before I could see them. Im as yet unsure if my clock is stable at the moment but it has not crashed yet.
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Have you renamed the furmark.exe? ati reduced it's performance because it broke 4870s with stock coolers. (you don't have to rename it to anything specific, just hit the keyboard a bit)
 
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