Utilities for nvidia cards

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In most cases, video card overclocking is used by game lovers: if the overclocking is successful, then the FPS (number of frames per second) increases. Thanks to this, the picture in the game becomes smoother, the game stops slowing down, and it becomes comfortable and interesting to play.

Sometimes overclocking can improve performance up to 30-35% (a significant boost to try overclocking :))! In this article, I want to dwell on how this is done and on the typical questions that arise in this case.

I also want to note right away that overclocking is not a safe thing, if an inept action can damage the equipment (besides, this will be a refusal of warranty service!). Everything that you will do under this article - do at your own peril and risk ...

Besides, before overclocking, I would like to recommend one more way to accelerate a video card - by setting the optimal driver settings (By setting these settings, you risk nothing. It is possible that by setting these settings, you will not need to overclock anything). I have a couple of articles about this on my blog:

- for NVIDIA (GeForce):
- for AMD (Ati Radeon):

What programs are needed to overclock a video card

In general, there are a lot of utilities of this kind, and one article to collect all of them is probably not enough :). In addition, the principle of operation is the same everywhere: we will forcibly need to increase the frequency of the memory and the core (as well as add the speed of the cooler for better cooling). In this article I will focus on some of the most popular overclocking utilities.

Universal

RivaTuner (I will show my example of overclocking in it)

One of the best utilities for fine tuning NVIDIA and ATI RADEON video cards, including overclocking! Despite the fact that the utility has not been updated for a long time, it does not lose its popularity and recognition. In addition, in it you can find the cooler settings: turn on a constant fan speed or determine the number of revolutions as a percentage, depending on the load. There is a monitor setting: brightness, contrast, gamma for each color channel. You can also figure out OpenGL settings and so on.

PowerStrip

PowerStrip (program window).

A well-known program for adjusting the parameters of the video subsystem, fine-tuning video cards and their overclocking.

Some of the utility's features are: on-the-fly switching of resolution, color depth, color temperature, brightness and contrast adjustment, assigning their own color settings to various programs, etc.

NVIDIA Utilities

NVIDIA System Tools(formerly called nTune)

A set of utilities for accessing, monitoring and configuring computer system components, including temperature and voltage control using convenient control panels in Windows, which is much more convenient than doing the same through the BIOS.

NVIDIA Inspector: main program window.

A free, small utility that allows you to access all sorts of information about the NVIDIA graphics cards installed on your system.

An interesting enough program for overclocking and tuning video cards for maximum performance. Works with video cards from EVGA, as well as GeForce GTX TITAN, 700, 600, 500, 400, 200 based on nVIDIA chips.

AMD utilities

Utility for overclocking and monitoring the performance of video cards based on GPU Radeon. One of the best in its class. If you want to start overclocking your video card, I recommend starting your acquaintance with it!

A powerful enough utility for overclocking and tweaking AMD cards. With the help of the program, you can adjust the voltage of the GPU and video memory, the core frequency, and control the rotation speed of the fans.

ATITool (supports older video cards)

A program for fine tuning and overclocking of AMD ATI Radeon video cards. Placed in the system tray, providing quick access to all functions. Works under Windows OS: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7.

Video card test utilities

They will be needed to evaluate the performance gain of the video card during and after overclocking, as well as to check the stability of the PC. Often in the process of overclocking (increasing frequencies), the computer starts to behave unstable. In principle, your favorite game can serve as such a program, for the sake of which, for example, you decided to overclock your video card.

Video card test (testing utilities) -

Overclocking process in Riva Tuner

Important! Don't forget to update your graphics card driver and DirectX before overclocking :).

1) After installing and running the utility Riva tuner, in the main window of the program (Main), click on the triangle under the name of your video card, and in the pop-up rectangular window select the first button (with the image of the video card), see the screenshot below. Thus, you should open the settings for memory and core frequencies, settings for the cooler.

2) Now you will see in the Overlocking tab the frequencies of the memory and the video card core (in the screenshot below, these are 700 and 1150 MHz). Just during overclocking, these frequencies are increased to a certain limit. To do this, you need:

put a tick in front of the item Enable driver-level hardware overclocking;
in the pop-up window (not shown) just click the Detect now button;
at the top, in the right corner, select the performance 3D parameter in the tab (by default, sometimes it is 2D);
you will now be able to move the frequency sliders to the right to increase the frequencies (but don't rush into it just yet!).

3) The next step is to launch some utility that allows you to control the temperature in real time. You can choose any utility from this article:

Such a utility will be needed in order to timely monitor the state of the video card (its temperature) with increasing frequencies. Usually, in this case, the video card always starts to get hotter, and the cooling system does not always cope with the load. In order to stop overclocking in time (in which case) - and you need to know the temperature of the device.

An indispensable utility for gamers who own video cards from NVIDIA. NVIDIA GeForce Experience software helps you optimize game settings and keep your drivers up to date.

NVIDIA GeForce Experience is the official software from NVIDIA. The main purpose is to help users get the most out of their video adapters.

The program is a kind of shell with access to the games installed on your computer. NVIDIA GeForce Experience, after detecting games on your computer, will offer to automatically optimize their settings to the best fit for your system. Subsequently, the program shell can serve as a convenient single center for launching installed games.

Video recording of games

NVIDIA GeForce Experience has powerful gameplay video capture and screenshot functionality built in. This functionality has flexible settings and allows you to assign "hot keys" to control. Live broadcast of the gameplay over the network is supported.

For the full operation of network services, you must create an NVIDIA account or log in through one of the popular social networks.

Updating Drivers

Because the NVIDIA GeForce Experience is specifically designed to maximize the performance of NVIDIA graphics cards, it has built-in functionality to check for driver updates. You can set the automatic mode or periodically request to check for updates through the program interface.

If you want your computer to display your gaming graphics optimally and play high quality video files without any lag, you should make sure that your graphics adapter is in perfect condition.

To achieve this, GeForce Experience, a program from NVIDIA, can be downloaded for free by any user whose computer is equipped with the appropriate video card.

It's easy to check which video chip you have installed - you just need to right-click on an empty desktop and select "Screen resolution" => "Advanced options". In the "Adapter" section, you will see the graphics adapter model. Another easy way is to type in the "Run" line: dxdiag. If you have NVIDIA GeForce, then the software in question is what you need. With it, you are guaranteed to receive timely driver updates for your video card, you can optimize game settings specifically for the game you are going to play, as well as record gameplay.

The software menu is represented by three main sections: Games, Drivers, Options. The first is the most interesting of them. This item will display all installed games. Once you select a game, you will see the Optimize button. Clicking on it will mean connecting to the cloud hub to get the best gaming settings based on your CPU, GPU and monitor data.

80% of users agree with the "Standard" or "Recommended" parameters for games. At the same time, they do not suspect that World Of Tanks, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Need for Speed and other software-demanding games can look much cooler with Geforce Experience - the latest version of the software will turn your world upside down.

Possibilities:

notifications of new drivers for the graphics adapter (one-click installation);
integration with the "cloud" center NVIDIA;
optimization of graphics for your games (more than 50 popular developments from game studios are supported);
analysis of parameters based on screenshots;
setting the frame rate and picture quality;
ShadowPlay option - for recording or streaming gameplay in high definition;
broadcast of the passage in real time on the Twitch service.

Advantages:

easy and quick installation of driver updates from official sources;
setting graphics for the most famous strategies, action games, simulators and MMO RPGs;
background recording of the passage;
GeForce Experience interface in Russian;
work on desktops and laptops with graphics cards starting from GeForce 400.

Things worth working on:

the installation process should be made shorter.

This utility is a godsend for gamers that can squeeze the most out of a video card. With it, the graphics in games will become much cooler, and one click will be enough to record gameplay in high resolution.