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New Style Nvidia Control Panel - ewww!!

RichDuffy

RichDuffy

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I've just received my 7900GTO and installed the latest drivers, and can't stand the new layout of the Nvidia display control panel. Is there any way to force it back to the old format?

Also, I take it I need to reinstall Coolbits now? I can't find it anywhere.
 
Don't mind this control panel now I'm used to it. You can also set a custom view to get rid of all the options you never use. Good difference is there's a 3 hour temperature history now.
 
I know what you mean,

Not a great fan of the new style control panel either. Coming back to the classic panel after ATi's software was bliss :p
 
Is there any overclocking feature hiden somewhere in the Nvidia control panel? or do I need to use coolbits/rivatuner?
 
markyb said:
Yeh, you need to run coolbits on your system to enable it.

Get coolbits here
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Cheers,

well its at 660 MHz core freq and 650 clock freq and always run the fan at highest speed is ticked.
 
Why are Nvidia/ATI pushing these god-awful chunky control panels anyway? They're a waste of everyone's time.
 
Lolcb said:
is coolbits safe to install and use?
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Suppose that depends what you mean by 'safe'. There's always a risk with overclocking a component; just a small one if you listen to what Coolbits tells you.

I have a question about coolbits - if you don't tick "apply these settings at startup", what happens? Does it apply them permanently even outside of Windows, or does it just go back to stock next time you boot?
 
Its always annoying when new stuff gets chucked on you, not to say its worse. I hated IE7 for the first few hours, now im finding it much nicer than IE6.....
 
RichDuffy said:
I have a question about coolbits - if you don't tick "apply these settings at startup", what happens? Does it apply them permanently even outside of Windows, or does it just go back to stock next time you boot?
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if you dont tick it then each time you log into windows you will have to manually set the overclock. if you do tick it... you guessed it, loads the overclock settings upon logging into windows.

im not sure about outside of windows as the settings are application controlled
 
On the subject of the "new" control panel, I can't see anywhere on it where you can set separate overclocking for 2D and 3D like in the classic view. You just get a single overlock screnen in the 3D settings view. Are we to assume that it automatically sets both 2D and 3D to the same, as is often reccomended? Hmm, now I think about it I'm sure I tested this ages ago and I seem to remember when I went back to the classic view the 2D clock hadn't changed at all, just the 3D. Yeah I can definately remember that now, I had to set the 2D clock to the same as 3D in the old panel. But I prefer the new panel cos of its better colour control sliders. Something to bare in mind though about the overclocking.
 
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