[hallo]

Hi there;
I was given a free vista operating system from my workplace, so I installed it on my pc to give it a try. It was all good until I want to play some games and benchmark. I have found that the nvidia driver provided for vista is very basic, it doesn't support hardware monitoring or overclocking, they even acknowledege that on the nvidia site. "This version is not fully optimized for full 3D performance and may not include all available features available on different operating systems.: [direct quote from the nvidia website] So as a result none of the other overclocking utilities work like Riva tuner and powerstrip, I was wonder if anyone was able to overclock a nvidia card under vista. I was running my 7900GT at 625Mhz core and 1700Mhz effective ram speed, so performance does take a big hit when it drops down to the stock speed of 470Mhz core and 1400Mhz effective ram.

Please help.

Thank you very much.

[joeybob]

i have no experience with vista, but i know there are many things that arent really complete, and also some games might not run well or run at all even if you do overclock your gpu. that is how vista is currently.

[Seifer]

you should try searching on google for software made for vista. in the first place, it is annoying for microsoft to release vista if so many things are still incomplete.

[superstrikertwo]

The drivers that are coming out now are not the full versions of the driver. They will release a better driver once they get their feel for Vista. The driver will probably come out when SP1 comes out.

[lamos]

Originally Posted by superstrikertwo

The drivers that are coming out now are not the full versions of the driver. They will release a better driver once they get their feel for Vista. The driver will probably come out when SP1 comes out.

any idea when that is coming out? it is very strange to release a windows without having the other things ready for it, like releasing a console without any games, or a pc that requires a new os which is still being developed.

[joeybob]

well you would have to wait for them to release it, nothing else to do since vista is very new and their software would probably be the first out which is good enough and besides why would you need to overclock if you cannot play most of the games on vista atm. i dont think the pc is being slow with normal work is it?