Does RivaTuner Work for Vista 64-bit?

After upgrading to Vista 64-bit a month ago, I tried installing Riva Tuner to overclock my GPU again but at startup, it gave me a (and this is not the precise warning message as I forgot what it was) warning prompt of "cannot find riva64.sys or something.

Im using 169.01 drivers.

TIA

 

are you using the 64bit version.

 

Doesn't RivaTuner v2.06 support both 32-bit and 64-bit?

 

RivaTuner works fine in 64-bit Vista. I was using it when I still had my 8800.

 

Do you mind sharing with us on how you bypass Windows Driver Signing? RivaTuner installs fine, but will not run due to the aforementioned problem.

 

Hit F8 at startup.

 

That seems to be the only way it will work. It gets to be a big hassle having to hit F8 every time I boot up the PC. I was hoping someone knows how to permanently put Driver Signing Enforcement out of its misery.

 

The most recent version of RivaTuner has a signed driver and doesn't have the driver signing issue.

 

Okay, I figured it out.

I downloaded RivaTuner 2.06, but the x64 driver that comes with it is still unsigned, so no joy. I uninstalled it and did the following:

- Download this to the same directory to where RivaTuner206 is. Rename RivaTuner203Drv to RivaTuner206Drv.

- Start RivaTuner206 installation. During the installation process, a dialog window should pop up and ask if you want to run an update. Click 'yes'.

That should be it. Driver Signing Enforcement never popped back up, and the best part of it all? No need to hit F8 every time on boot-up or uninstalling patches.

 

^ looks like you beat me to the answer

 

Hmm I tried the above and vista still blocks rivatuner from starting up on boot.

 

yea, i know it says 2.03 but i used theese and it worked

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/724/RivaTuner_x64_signed_Drivers.html

 

So let me get this straight. You downloaded 2.06 and then downloaded the above file u linked into the same directory. You then renamed that file 206 instead of 203 so that it replaces the one already in the directory. You then installed 2.06 and it worked fine? 'cause I did all that and I did get that popup box that said to update and i did click yes. THen once I loaded up my clock speeds and hit "apply at startup" and then rebooted my comp it said "some programs were blocked from starting up" and I had to go through the UAC to startup rivatuner's clock settings.

 

That's pretty much it. Mine worked right off the bat even after restart because I disabled UAC.

 

Here is a answer in the forums:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=81852&page=12

 

thanks for all the info! apparantly 2.05 works without a hitch, i did download that patch but I didn't even put it in the directory yet and it worked. i'll hold off overclocking for now (i think theres dust in the fan) and update the video drivers.

 

I still can't get it to work. To the original poster, are u saying u have UAC disabled? 'cause I definitly have the UAC enabled on my machine and don't plan on disabling it.

 

yeah I have UAC disabled

I OC'ed back to the speeds I had a few months ago, but my framrates are choppy in CS:S, no idea why though.

 

Gophn, i tried the solution in that link, uninstalled those updates and did the cmd thing and rebooted twice but the driver signing thing keeps popping up

TRF-Inferno, tried the driver in the link, but same result

i was able to OC and get past the drive signing wih 2.05, but when i tried playing CS:S, the framerates were jittery

right now, i switched back to 169.01 drivers because the OC worked for me when I had Vista 32 bit. is there a driver i should be using that can OC?

 

Guys am I missing something?

I installed Rivatuner 2.06 and overclocked without a problem.

I'm in Vista Home Premium x64 with 171.16.

We'll see if I spoke too soon when I get around to doing some more testing, but so far it starts with Windows and sets the clocks properly.

 

try out some games or benchmarks

when i could OC (don't know how I got it to work when it did) i would try out CS:S stress test and it showed improvments but when i tried it in-game, theres was a lot of studdering and juddering. so i uninstalled it and reintalled it but then i got the driver signing error, even though i manually shut it off and uninstalled the 3 updates that enforce driver signing.

 

Overclocks stick fine. 3DMark06 about 4400 at 1280x854.

I never messed with removing any updates, I have everything from Windows Update installed.

 

BCdedit was already addressed, never mind

 

yeah tried that, even uninstalled the updates. don't know why driver signing still works...

 

hows it everyone okay got a dellema am going semi crazy at this point i own a dv6000 hp running vista 64 bit ultimate with 8400m gs gforce card trying to use rivatuner thought it wasnt being able to run due to uac user account control block so i disabled it to try work around it didnt work still unable to enable the hardware overclocking drive still comming up n/a so then i went command prompt typed bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS to work around the signed driver issue went back rebooted it clicked the box still to no avail so then i tried changing the monitor option nothing its on the original then i tried uninstalling it and reinstalling the 64bit rivatuner that i had clicked the update box and STILL when i load and reboot it it wont let me enable the box with hardware overclocking i cant modify anything its all still non applicable before and after reboot from rivatuner at the rivatuner open screen under version it reads 101.23 ive had major issues updating my drivers could these predeturmined old drivers be creating the issue can someone help im seriously ripping my hair out as i post this

 

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/724/RivaTuner_x64_signed_Drivers.html