ATi Tray Tools for Nvidia?

[TW]Fox · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:17

Hi all,

Just installed my 8800GTS. The only thing I miss about my rubbish ATi card was ATi tray tools and the way it displayed the fps in the top corner of every game I played.

Is there an Nvidia equivilant?

Tombo · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:19

Don't know but you could run fraps as that has an fps counter.

Kaiju · 2 Mar 2007 at 06:20

Rivatuner

Darkwave · 2 Mar 2007 at 07:21

Kaiju said:
Rivatuner

...is nothing like ATI Tray Tools.

Unfortunately [TW]Fox, there is simply nothing like it on the Nvidia side. I miss it too, a huge amount.

Mekrel · 2 Mar 2007 at 07:54

This is why im 51% ATi and 49% nVidia.

There is an nVidia one but it's a mess. Don't think it does half the stuff and I'm pretty sure it's a a bunch of programs bodged together with a context menu. Search Guru3D for it and you will end up disapointed :/

Defcon5 · 2 Mar 2007 at 09:06

Why do you need to know the fps? as long as its smooth it ok surely?

Never used an ATI card, so i dont know whats in tray tools, but for clocking coolbits is fine, use fraps for the fps, the coolbits menu has all the aa/af options + temp etc

What else is there in tray tools?

Darkwave · 2 Mar 2007 at 09:13

Defcon5 said:
What else is there in tray tools?

Everything.

gt_junkie · 2 Mar 2007 at 09:26

I use ATi Tool (not ATi tray tools!) for my 7950GX2. It states it's compatible with all Nvidia cards so your 8800 should be covered!

With it i can clock the card, monitor temps and see voltages. It even has a 3d test window where it will check for graphical faults as an overclock is applied and increased!

Here's a full list of what it can do:

- No limits overclocking.
- Support for overclocking for NVIDIA cards.
- Finding maximum core and memory overclock by rendering into a Direct3D - window and scanning the output for visual artifacts.
- Temperature monitoring and fan speed control (on supported cards)
- Removal of Catalyst overclocking lock for 9000/9200/9550/9600 series.
- Artifact scanning mode to test for stability.
- Loading a predefined clock profile on Application/Windows startup.
- Hotkeys that can be used any time to load clocks from a profile.
- 3D application detection (Direct3D 8, Direct3D 9, OpenGL) to overclock your video card only when required.
- Gamma control

ATi Tool doesn't have a frame counter though but (as recommended above by Tombo) i use FRAPS for that!

Give those a try!

gt

Noto · 2 Mar 2007 at 11:52

best thing for me is the fan control, you can set what speed for the fan to run... mines 100% all the time lol poor X800 XT PE /pat /hug

james.miller · 2 Mar 2007 at 11:59

nvidia tray tools (see what they did there?) does most of the basic stuff but its not as featured as ati try tools. they are currently working on getting the osd from ati TT working.

what do you think so far fox?

Kaiju · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:27

Ulfhedjinn said:
...is nothing like ATI Tray Tools.

The OP only said he wanted to view the FPS in the corner of the screen.

zytok · 2 Mar 2007 at 12:56

Tombo said:
Don't know but you could run fraps as that has an fps counter.

ATI Tray Tools uses FRAPS to show the fps. It's just built in to the rest of the tools and settings. To confirm, FRAPS can be obtained separately and is legally free to use.

Kamakazie! · 2 Mar 2007 at 13:19

ATI Tool + FRAPS is the way to go having used ATi Tray Tools with the X1900XT!

Only thing lacking with the 8800 is the fan control, not that you need it. Mine never gone up to full spin or past 75 degrees even at 660/1950!

Mekrel · 2 Mar 2007 at 14:34

Kamakazie! said:
ATI Tool + FRAPS is the way to go having used ATi Tray Tools with the X1900XT!

Only thing lacking with the 8800 is the fan control, not that you need it. Mine never gone up to full spin or past 75 degrees even at 660/1950!

So you use ATi Tool to overclock, CCC or CC to control the driver settings being as ATi Tool only does driver tweaks and no profiles etc and FRAPS?

A bit long winded when you could do them all under ATT surely?

Kamakazie! · 2 Mar 2007 at 15:14

Mekrel said:
So you use ATi Tool to overclock, CCC or CC to control the driver settings being as ATi Tool only does driver tweaks and no profiles etc and FRAPS?

A bit long winded when you could do them all under ATT surely?

No, i used ATi Tray Tools with my 1900XT but use Ati Tool with the 8800GTS.

gt_junkie · 2 Mar 2007 at 15:57

Kamakazie! said:
No, i used ATi Tray Tools with my 1900XT but use Ati Tool with the 8800GTS.

Yup - best way!

gt

FoxEye · 2 Mar 2007 at 16:05

Just downloaded ATI Tool (not ATT), and sadly it doesn't let me control fan speed. This with a 6800GT, btw.

Mekrel · 2 Mar 2007 at 17:11

Try Rivatuner for fan speed I think (could be wrong), there was a program called Experitool for gainward cards and some users were controlling 6800GT fans from other brands with this back when the 6800 were flagship cards.

Kamakazie! · 2 Mar 2007 at 20:09

gt_junkie said:
Yup - best way!

gt

does nTune allow you to control fan speeds?