[Free Tool] NV GPU Pro for Nvidia graphic cards

The following post has been updated to reflect the latest version

Hello all,

I am exited to present to you my new simple tool that I have made for Nvidia Geforce and Quadro series graphic cards for laptop and desktop computers, named Nv GPU Pro.

Nv GPU Pro, allows you to change several Nvidia video card settings that are not normally available to the end user, such as Enable/Disable: Temperature control GPU clock, GPU core/memory clock slow down, change the Nvidia PoweMizer behavior, and more. All of this, in a an easy to use interface, and help documentation.
Now supports systems with multiple GPU's, and 197 drivers series of Nvidia and much more...


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About

This tool will automatically detect what your video card/driver supports and disable the unsupported option to prevent any problems. No installation required. 1 file package executable application, just run the exe... everything is in itself, including help documentation, with auto-clean up system when the application is closed. No MESS!

Nv GPU Pro, was designed for past, current and future Microsoft Windows operating system, without any compatibility issue (hopefully). Nv GPU Pro 2.1 build 107, has been tested to work under Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista 32/64 and Windows 7 32/64!


Notes:

• Clean. This software is ads, Worms, Virus, Infections, Spywares, Trojans, Adware Free. No install, and keeps everything clean on your system. 100% portable!
• Administrator. Administration privileges are require to change settings as it affects all users.

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What's new?

• New - Multi-GPU support (up to 2 GPUs).
• New - Support for 258 driver series, and older.
• Improved - Windows 7 compatibility.
• Improved - Startup program under Windows 7.
• Fixed - Several internal core level bug fixes.
• Fixed - Application fails to start with Asian characters in path.
• Fixed - Memory information doesn't recognize more than 2GB.
• Fixed - Stability improvements.
• Fixed - Broken links in help document.

View release notes in full
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View demo of Windows Experience Index (WEI) detail benchmark: here

I hope you enjoy this software and find it useful as much I had great pleasure doing it for all of you guys, bit-tech community. I'll be hearing for feature requests, spelling/grammar mistakes and bugs that needs to be fix.



Download

• Version: 2.1 Build 109
• Download: Nv GPU Pro
• Please support the project and Donate.

 

THank you so much for your kind sharing.

 

what is up with the fix memory clock problems? I don't believe my card has a problem -- what is it doing, and what will it do if the card didnt have a problem?

 

I am curious about this as well...

 

Thanks for sharing!

Haven't tried it yet.

 

DOes "fix memory clock problem" have to do with the random memory downclocking in the middle of games that some Nvidia users experience?

 

Actually I never was able to get complete light on this. However, some but very few claims that it solve a problem when the memory clock changes, however it blocks you from going further overclock. Personally, I was and still am hesitant about leaving this option, as when I tried it I didn't see any change in my ability to overclock or anything bad happen. And Nvidia is not saying being helpful more than this: "Fixes memory clock problem on certain video cards".

 

Thanks man!

I'm afraid to jinx my good luck but so far it seems to have fixed the DPC problems Nvidia drivers were giving me in Windows 7. Whenever I adjusted window sizes or whatever there would be huge spikes and the audio would pop. But when using the Win 7 grahics card driver everything was good.

So I installed your app and disabled Powermizer completely. And just let the program do it's thing.. and for the past 30 minutes things have been running smoothly.

I'm keeping everything crossed that it stays this way. God knows I've had a lot of trouble getting this laptop to run audio satisfactorily.

So thanks again. You rock!

 

Arrgghhhh.... I'm going insane! Just as I think everything is peachy.. the problem is back! FFS, what the hell is going on? Why does it all of a sudden start acting up again? I had the exact same problem in Vista so it's not just a Win 7 thing.

I really don't know what to do anymore. I've literally tried everything. I've tried several different video drivers, disabling as many devices as possible, operating system tweaks, etc. etc.

I am so incredibly fed up right now. I use my computer for a lot of audio work so it has to perform perfectly. The strange thing is that my previous laptop, a HP Pavilion, had none of these problems.

Sigh....

 

Barny, the DPC problems of the E6400/E6500 have been discussed considerably here at the NBR forums. Have you read those threads?

Also, the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager (Dell doesn't have it yet on their site, but you can get it from Intel directly) improved my DPC issues A LOT. Before I had to disable eSATA and the optical drive on the BIOS and now that is not necessary. Have you tried IMSM 8.8?

 

This is how Vista works (it should be the same for Win7). If Aero is turned on the OS interface (meaning desktop, wallpaper, window effects, windows boarders) are all rendered by the GPU, however, the content of
each window is the decision of the application (so application, in general, will use the CPU, and games GPU). I don't think your problem has to do with the video card at this point.

Do what HerrKaputt suggested, they is a lot of post on it. You can't miss them! they are right there are the entrance of the Dell Latitude forum section. I am part of the lucky ones without this issue, so I did not focus on this.

 

Thanks for the reply guys. I've read everything there is to read on the net about these issues..

It seems that the main problem was all the visual effects. It's a golden rule of audio optimizing a Windows PC that you turn it all OFF! I was just being naive and thinking that with a dedicated graphics card that wouldn't be necessary. Silly me.

So if the application running in the window is the one using CPU power rendering it, no wonder there is spikes. How come it's designed this way? Doesn't it make more sense letting the GPU handle all this?

 

Although I do not dislike Vista, I think Ubuntu (and probably Linux in general) are better optimized in this regard. I use Ubuntu at work and my girlfriend also has it on her laptop, and you can put all the fancy graphic effects you want (even on an old ATI Mobility Radeon 9600) and the laptop will handle them with no sweat.

You might want to try Ubuntu to see if it helps you in your work. Assuming the software tools you use can be used in Ubuntu, which I doubt...

Some users also report that XP has no such issues, although others say XP and Vista have the same problems. You can try XP, it doesn't hurt...

 

I have XP on dual boot. And audio runs ok. The latency is a bit too high for my liking. And strange things also happen in XP: when there's heavy disk activity the latency is halved. This is running in AHCI mode with IMSM driver 8.8. I've also tried XP in ATA mode and that was probably the most reliable. But I was annoyed that I couldn't use my eSATA port for my external drive. So when 8.8 was released i reinstalled in AHCI mode.

I don't think Ubuntu will work with my audio apps unfortunately... it would be nice if they did though.

 

ok ok ... this gets out of hand... please post at the E6400 forum section. From there I can try and help you. It's way off topic.

 

This might be handy for me, but how can I know if my GPU is downclocking itself?

Could it be possible that its downclocking by mistake, even if temps don't go too high?

 

My software does not do the work. It is your video card drivers that does it.
If you disable this feature and PowerMizer as well, it should not downclock at all. However, the GPU chip itself (so I can't do anything) might have an emergency mechanism to prevent any damage or melting due to overheating.

Make sure you monitor your GPU temps when you disable this one... I don't want you to end up with a broken GPU.

 

Sowwy.

I actually have posted quite a bit in the E6400 forum. But no-one has answered.

 

Thanks for the tool, i cant seem to select any of the options besides "disable powermizer completely"

 

Again it depends on your GPU, GPU drivers and if you are on a desktop or laptop.
For instance, if you are on a desktop computer it is normal that you can't enable powermizer when you are under battery.

I never tried forcing a setting in... be that usually is never good, or would simply do nothing as the drivers or GPU would just ignore it. The idea of this tool is to not have options that don't work, or screw up your system.

If you really want to force enable these features, PM me and I'll give your a reg file to do so. And my application will then have all the options enabled.

If anyone comes with good conclusion, then I'll release a new version which an option to force these disabled settings to be changed.

 

GDay GoodBytes. I have a Dell E6400 with the nVidia Quadro NVS 160M, running the latest drivers from Dell.

I ran your app and all the options are greyed out? So ok I click on the "Advanced graphic card settings" and the only option that isnt greyed out is "Enable AGP sideband addressing. (AGP video cards ONLY)."

Is this normal? I did try to install drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/ but none of the 185.x series seemed to work, so gave up and just went back to the latest from Dell.

I am running Windows XP SP3 with all the patches.

But looking at the App itself, it is small, easy to use and clear about the options it can change. Well done!

 

I have the same laptop as you but under Vista 64-bit with laptopvideo2go.com.
On my side, all the options are enabled (as you can see in the screen shots).

Yes, it is normal for "Enable AGP side addressing" is enabled. For some reason Nvidia left that option there on many video card (not on Geforce GTX 260 on my desktop). That is why I added in parentheses "(AGP video card ONLY)".
I wish I could just detect what video card you have and based on a list enable/disable that option. But the Geforce 6000 and 7000 series (and some Quadros) were availible on both AGP and VGA... so that gets things more complex.

If anyone would like to shed light on it, I am all hears to find a solution to this problem.

 

I got an error when the program starts, I guess it has something to do with me using a modified mobile driver?

Picture below:

 

You are using a special driver or tweak (Dox optimized)... This is thing I can't really control.
Can you please PM a segment of your registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\
To do this, do Win+R and type in "regedit" without the quotes, and hit the ENTER key. After passing the UAC message, navigate to the path on the tree on the left. Once you arrive at "Video" item, right click on that item, and select export.

With this, I can see what I can do to support your driver release.

 

Yeah I think it is the drivers I am using. I did try to install drivers from laptopvideo2go, but none of them seemed to work. That coupled with the fact that I dont do gaming on my laptop as is sits on my desk at work 90% of the time I didnt bother trying to figure out why and fiddle with them to try and squeeze more GPU power, it just didnt seem worth it if all I do is 2D office/coder type stuff anyway.

 

A new version has been release 1.0 Build 22!

What's new in 1.0 Build 22?

• Fixed - Laptop only - Disable PowerMizer when system is plugged-in option not working correctly.
• Fixed - Minor user interface problem under Windows XP and older users.
• Fixed - NV GPU blocks system from being restarted, while the program is running.
• Updated - Help document AGP sideban description.

Check out the first page for the download link of the new version.

 

Ok, little announcement here.
My application, other tools which disable/modify PowerMizer, and manual hacks all fails with the 185 (BETA) series drivers. I'll have to dig in more deeply into this.

 

GoodButes: you said that we can use Advanced settings only if they are present in the registry. and there is the issue i try several driver version and with non of them i cant use the adv. settings can you make your program to write these setting into registry if we want to use them ?

 

These feature appears to me on about all Nvidia drivers for my laptop GPU, even when I install the Geforce rather than the Quadro drivers.

Yes, I could do it. I'll PM with a development build when it's ready for you to experiment and see if it works or not.

 

ok, thanks man

 

Ok... well just to say to all.
PowerMizer is supported in driver 185 series. I installed the same drivers 185.66 on both my laptop and desktop computer.
On my laptop my tool still works (yes, I clean my registry to make sure there is no left overs), but on my desktop, which only had PowerMizer setting on or off, now are gone, and force to be on.

However, adding the missing keys fixed the problem.

Stay tune for the update.

 

New version released!
This version has a lot of changes, making it increase from version 1.0 to 1.1.

What's New? (version: 1.1 build 64)

• New - Support for Nvidia Forceware display driver 185 series.
• New - Support for DOX Optimized Nvidia Forceware display driver.
• New - Ability to override Nvidia display driver to enable or disable settings.
• New - Support for old video cards (7000 series and older).
• Improved - Detection of supported video cards.
• Improved - Detection of system type and operating system.
• Fixed - Minor spelling mistakes on program and help documentation.
• Fixed - User interface problems.

Check out the first post for the new version.

Enjoy!

 

GoodBytes,
I can't thank you enough for this tool, it has finally made me truly appreciate my E6400....and I'm not even a gamer! My GPU was getting downclocked for no reason and your tool was the answer! Thanks so much! I am running the latest 185 drivers as well.

My issue:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=369982

 

Hi

Thanks a lot for the great Tool and all the work and time you find to code and maintenance it.

regards
Christopher

 

Hi, sounds like a great tool ... how does this differ from NVIDIA System Tools:
The NVIDIA System Tools installation package includes:

1. NVIDIA Performance Group (v6.03.12.00) add-on to the NVIDIA Control Panel

nForce MCPs
– Enables system tuning and profiles for clocks, voltages, timings, and fans
– Includes support for Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) components
– Displays detailed system information

GeForce GPUs
– Enables GPU overclocking

2. NVIDIA System Monitor (v6.03.05.00) standalone application
nForce MCPs
– Enables system monitoring for clocks, voltages, timings, and fans
– Includes support for Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) components

GeForce GPUs
– Enables GPU temperature monitoring

3. NVIDIA System Update (v2.00.49.05) add-on to the NVIDIA Control Panel
Automatically checks for nForce and GeForce driver updates
Adds ability to update your system bios
Includes support to update firmware of Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) components

Does this NVIDIA System Tools work also with mobile cards or is this just meant for desktop cards???

 

The mentioned tool works for both mobile and desktop Geforce and Quadro's GPU's.

My tool does not perform any overclocking. It allows you change the behavior of the GPU drivers. For example, you overclock your desktop GPU, and you know that the temperature is stable at 95C, let's say. By at 95C, the GPU drivers just go under emergency mode and downclock your GPU. On of the options of my tool allows you to change that behavior, and not make it downclock. However, of course it is your job to ensure it doesn't pass the 100C range, else well you actually damage the GPU.

Another option, is that it allows you disable PowerMizer on your laptop Nvidia card when you are under battery, so that you can play games on the go for a few hours (depending on your system and battery). Once your done, re-launch the application, re-enable PowerMizer, restart, and your back with long battery life.
Alternatively, you can enable (disable by default on most GPU) PowerMizer on your desktop GPU, to allow it to downclock when idle to reduce heat and electricity.

So as you can see, my tool is mainly focused more on behavior, not feature.
My coming up version, will allow you to enable/disable some Nvidia control panel related things thus, including the overclocking section without installing the Nvidia tool, among other things (well, don't have your hopes up... I am at the testing stage to see if it's doable first... hopefully yes.)

 

I just installed the new 185.85 driver and now the powermizer options are greyed out in the tool, whereas with earlier 185 versions they were not. And unfortunately my gpu is getting throttled again even when plugged in If you have a chance to look into this Goodbytes let us know. Thanks.

 

A chance? Of course I do. Immediate response!

Yes, I am aware of this. However, hope is not all gone.
My tests concluded that if you override the settings, using NV GPU Pro it will unlock PowerMizer settings, and then you'll be able to change successfully (well it was on my test systems, including under Windows 7 RC1) the PowerMizer settings, and see the effects.

Check out the help documentation of my tool, ( Override Disabled Options), for steps on how to override settings using my tool.
I know this is not very obvious thing, but I am working on UI as we speak to make it all better to the end-user (i.e: you).

Known Problems:
- A slip-out bug from the development is on the override section of the my tool. When you click on the "Set" button, it shows a miss-placed message about backuping your registry BEFORE you do this, despite already done. Sorry about that. Don't worry thus, the software did it's job correctly, I really made sure about this. So just ignore the message that you'll get once you press on 'Set'.

- You may need to restart the program to be able to change the overridden settings.

These bugs are already fixed on my side. I'll have a new version released in a few days.

 

Yep i get the this message in Windows 7 Build 7100 x86 but when you restart the program the job is done

GoodBytes this program is simply incredible

 

Just FYI and FWIW, when I use NV GPU Pro 1.1 on my Dell Precision M6400 Covet (Quadro FX 3700M) with the 179.50 Dell OEM drivers for Vista Ultimate x64 to turn off PowerMizer when plugged in, then shortly after rebooting to make the changes take effect, my entire system slows to a crawl, working at about 5 to 10 % of its normal speed. CPU shows 100% utilization almost constantly, yet there are no discernable rogue processes gobbling it up (as seen by Task Manager, Process Explorer, or AnVir Task Manager Pro, e.g.)--a classic symptom of a device driver running amok.

When I eventually can bring up NV GPU Pro to reverse this and then reboot again, the system boots and runs normally.

I uninstalled/reinstalled the display adapter in device manager, and reinstalled the 179.50 drivers, tried this again, and the same thing happened again.

(It's possible I have a defective FX 3700M, though--games always start off silky smooth, and then within 5 seconds or so stutter horribly (1-3 frames per second). Dell is replacing the card tomorrow, even though that its the problem is just a guess right now. Nothing left to try in debugging except starting over with a clean install.)

 

My software only touches the GPU driver configuration. When disabling PowerMizer, it seams to act up your GPU, as you suggest. It could be a faulty GPU or motherboard or motherboard chipset. You could re-install the OS and see, if it the case of driver screwed the OS. But anyway you will get a new motherboard... so we will see. I still recommend a re-install after the switch just to make sure.

But that is really a first.

 

edit: nevermind, it fixed itself.

Also does this work/have a problem with dual cards in SLI?

edit again: Wow, after enabling powermizer and gpu slow clocking my max temps in game (used same game, map and setup in Demigod as before) went from:
GPU #1: 90C
GPU #2: 68C
to
GPU#1: 70C
GPU#2: 62C

These temps were measured with the fan running on default settings. +1, great program.

 

GoodBytes, you are amazing!!! I've spent the past 3 days since i received my new m4400 trying to figure out why minimizing and maximizing windows was so slow...Your program fixed all my problems on 185.85 drivers!!!!! Both your program and your website are very clean and professional. Thank you so much!

 

Hey GoodBytes,

Although I have ATI in my rig at the moment, I still appreciate your work on this and for sharing it with the forum!

Here's some +rep for ya buddy.

 

Hello!
I have 2 big announcements which I am really exited to share with your guys.
The first is Nv GPU Pro 2.0. With the great success of Nv GPU Pro and encouraging words by everyone, I decided to continue the development of this software for the longest as I can. To help me do so, I had to rewrite the hole core of my software for easier to update support for coming up drivers and add new and interesting features to the program.

What new?

• New - User interface with better OS integration.
• New - Backup system.
• New - Basic system information panel.
• New - Donate button.
• New - Support for 186 series drivers.
• Improved - Detection of supported video cards.
• Improved - Detection of system type and operating system.
• Improved - Performance increase.
• Improved - Uses ~23% less memory.
• Fixed - PowerMizer bug fix on 18x and 16x drivers, where settings where not being applied.
• Fixed - Minor bug fixes with the override system.

To continue with the great quality of the software, I have no choice to drop support for Microsoft Windows 9x, Me, NT3.x and NT4. However, I believe that this should affect anyone. For those who are affected, you can still download version 1.1


The second announcement is the release of Nv GPU Pro website.
http://www.nvgpupro.com

One place to for you and me to share the latest release of Nv GPU Pro, release beta versions, present what is the software better, and provide better support of the software, as well as overclocking, just general system technical problems help and more via the new forum.

I also now accept donations via the website

I hope you enjoy the new site, forum and most importantly the new release of Nv GPU Pro.

Download Nv GPU Pro 2.0 Build 624

 

Thanks for this file!

 

Presenting a new version of NvGPUPro!
Version 2.0 Build 628


What is new?

• New - Support for 190 series drivers.
• Improved - Backup system.
• Improved - Support the Quadro FX 770M.
• Fixed - License Agreement for first time users.
• Fixed - "Change destination" button in backup feature.

This version still doesn't support multiple GPU and SLI setup. I can reassure you that it is the works.

Download Latest NvGPUPro.

If you enjoy this software, and want to continue it's development, please donate. I try my best to avoid any ads, toolbar, or junk of any kind on the software and on the website. I sure do hope I can keep it this way. And the only way I can achieve this is from your contributions.

ANY donation is appreciated. Click here to Donate.
For different donation methods other than credit card, please e-mail me at: .

Remember that once you donated in total 10$ or over, you will gain access to the beta release of the software.

Thank you very much.
And thank you again to all whom already donated.

 

may i ask if ur software works with my 9600M GT?

 

goodbytes thank you alot for your effort and developing.
I will never forgot nvu gpu pro.Keep going for developmant!

I have few questions to ask you it also applys for to users.

Please help me if you can.

1-I got a 8600m gs gpu card and it has the potential to be overclocked because i am cooling my notebook with zalman nc2000 also cpu is undervolted.The question I want to ask is:Is there any program to overclock my 8600m gs?

2-There is a option on nv gpu pro saying "change the core speed based on gpu temperture.Is selecting this option overclock my gpu when the temperture is low or good?Is selecting this option downclock my gpu when the heat is high?

3-Does power minimizer down clock gpu core clock and memory when selected.Can ı get a got "cooling" from this.

Thank you if you help

 

Thank you very much. I really appreciate it.

Oh yes there is! Check my signature, I have a overclock (OC) guide specially for Nvidia graphic cards. Nvidia has released a new software that allows you to create overclock profiles that you can load/unload (load back the default values) anytime from a click of a mouse. The advantage of this is that you don't "force" the GPU to overclock with values it can't handle, auto-kill the overclock if the GPU/GPU memory overheats, and allows you to not overclock when you don't need it, and have it not affect your battery life, as you have PowerMizer which locks the video card component speeds to minimum, and that you are not loading the overclock profile.

This option is for extreme/experience overclock-ers. I don't recommend disable this option, specially not on a laptop. Use this option, if you ready to trow away your GPU and buy a new on (you can't change the GPU in like 99% (not actual fact value) of laptops as they are soldered in to save space and money.

This option is for those who, for example, have their GPU heat at up to 99C (let say), and at 100C the GPU kills itself to prevent heat damage, and in some situation, the GPU goes up by 1 degree more and kills your game/software (Vista/Win7) or system (XP), and you don't want that because you monitor the GPU temperature, and you know you will kill is at 102C, and you know that the GPU you have you don't care about and you know it can handle a little more heat as you don't believe in rounded values.

On laptops Nvidia Power Mizer should be turned on by default.
Yes, it down-clocks your gpu core clock, shader clock and memory clock when idle and increase in speed "as you need it" (it guesses). But, that is when your system is plug-in. On battery only, the GPU lockes to minimum speed.