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I have had a "Leadtek A400 TDH GeForce 6800" for about three weeks now. When
the card first arrived from NewEgg I, of course, ran Rivatuner. The
pipelines and shader unmasked just fine with zero artifacts. I assumed that
the changes Rivatuner made to unmask the pipelines and shader were made in
the driver and thus would have to "load" every time I started windows. That
was fine with me. Satisfied with the results I did not alter the bios to
make the changes "permenant".
The other day I had occasion to change drivers. Since I had not made the
unmasking "permenant" with an altered bios I assumed that wiping out the old
driver would also wipe out the Rivatuner Pipeline and Shader unmasking and
that I would have to run Rivatuner again after installing the new driver.
After installing the new driver I booted Rivatuner and was surprised to find
Rivatuner still reporting all 16 pipelines and 6 shaders unmasked and
working.
Since the unmasking appearently survived a driver change I am somewhat
confused as to just what Rivatuner DOES change in the unmasking of the 6800
pipelines and shader. It is also possible that the unmasking did not survive
the driver change and Rivatuner is reporting bogus information.
Can anyone here tell me just what Rivatuner changes in unmasking those four
masked pipelines and one masked shader?
Thanks
I have had a "Leadtek A400 TDH GeForce 6800" for about three weeks now. When
the card first arrived from NewEgg I, of course, ran Rivatuner. The
pipelines and shader unmasked just fine with zero artifacts. I assumed that
the changes Rivatuner made to unmask the pipelines and shader were made in
the driver and thus would have to "load" every time I started windows. That
was fine with me. Satisfied with the results I did not alter the bios to
make the changes "permenant".
The other day I had occasion to change drivers. Since I had not made the
unmasking "permenant" with an altered bios I assumed that wiping out the old
driver would also wipe out the Rivatuner Pipeline and Shader unmasking and
that I would have to run Rivatuner again after installing the new driver.
After installing the new driver I booted Rivatuner and was surprised to find
Rivatuner still reporting all 16 pipelines and 6 shaders unmasked and
working.
Since the unmasking appearently survived a driver change I am somewhat
confused as to just what Rivatuner DOES change in the unmasking of the 6800
pipelines and shader. It is also possible that the unmasking did not survive
the driver change and Rivatuner is reporting bogus information.
Can anyone here tell me just what Rivatuner changes in unmasking those four
masked pipelines and one masked shader?
Thanks