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Getting ATI Tool to work in Vista64?

Bubo

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Does anyone have a link to a guide to get ATI Tool to work in Vista 64bit? I want to use it to set my clocks at startup but it seems to have problems working in Vista 64. I've tried using the EVGA Precisision tool and Rivatuner and both work ok, however they don't seem to allow you to set different clocks for 2D, low 3D and high 3D. Unless I'm doing something wrong, if I use these to set my clocks my card is always running at hi 3D clocks, even on the desktop. This is according to GPUz. I'd rather it didn't do that as it must be wasting power. When I used ATI tool to set clocks on XP 32bit it changed the clock as per what the PC was doing. This is with a gtx280 btw.
 
Did some more research. Apparently this problem with down clocking in from 3D speeds to 2D speeds is a driver bug, which seems to affect Vista more than XP. It appears that the downclocking facility in the drivers is over sensitive such that several non heavy 3D apps can make it think it needs to be running at full 3D speeds, IE7 has been mentioned amongst others. Looks like getting Ati Tools to work wouldn't make much difference anyway. I think I will have a go at flashing instead and wait till they sort the drivers out.
 
Yeah I was reading some other forums about this. A bunch of people were able to get it to work but after a couple of boots they started to get kernel error messages. I think your out of luck
 
I had the same problem when I first got my 260 with vista 64. I got ATI tool to run but it wouldn't do the auto overclock to find the max core and memory speeds.

I spent a lot of time trying to sort this which turned out to be a waste of time. ATI Tool is way out of date and not supported any more which is a shame. It was very good in its day.
I now use riva tuner and manual find max overclock, not the same but I guess it will have to do.
 
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