coolbits has stopped working!

[leeglf]

today i decided to upgrade my nvidia drivers from 90.something to the newest ones (93.71)!

i uninstalled my old driver properly and used drivercleaner,

i installed the new drivers without any problems and installed the coolbits registry edit!

everything seemed fine until i start overclocking my graphics card it fails the test even with just a core increase of 1mhz!

i thought it might be a problem with coolbits but i installed rivatuner and that is the same it even fails testing the standard clocks(450/1300)!

i previously had my card overclocked to 550/1450 with no problems at all!



anybody know what the problem could be?

[chuckskull]

I dont have the latest ones yet, needs to be done though. So gimme ten minutes and I'll tell you what happens for me

[leeglf]

ok cool!

[chuckskull]

Works fine here, with some oddness, test on mine doesn't actually seem to test anymore, but still ok's the clock for applying. I even tried it at 800mhz core out of curiosity and it appeared to pass, despite the PC crashing almost instantly afterward.

If it's any use these are the values I use:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak]
"NvCplExposeWin2kDualView"=dword:00000001
"NvCplTvLocaleAutoDetect"=dword:00000001
"NvCplAllowForceTVDetection"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableActiveApp"=dword:00000001
"DisableApplyColorsAtStartup"=dword:00000000
"NoMenus"=dword:00000000
"OverlayPageState"=dword:00000000
"CinematicPageState"=dword:000000ff
"NvCplThermalSettings"=dword:00000020
"NvCplEnableScreenMenuPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplCustomResConfig"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableAdditionalInfoPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplDisablePerfQualPage"=hex:00,00,00,00
"NvCplEnableAGPSettingsPage"=dword:00000001
"CoolBits"=dword:ffffffff
"NvCplEnableOverlaySpanControl"=dword:00000001
"TwinViewCapsOverride"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableDesktopOverlapPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableTroubleshootingPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplDisableRefreshRatePage"=dword:00000000
"NvCplDisableRotateAngles"=dword:00000000
"NoPages"=dword:00000000
"NvCplEnableClearViewPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableFanControl"=dword:00000003
"NvCplEnableFrameSyncPage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableHardwarePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnablenForcePage"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnablePwrMzrOnDesktopMenu"=dword:00000001
"NvCplEnableRotationColorSettings"=dword:00000001
"NvCplNvThermPage"=dword:00000001
"PowermizerPreferences"=dword:00000000
"QTwkEnableModeChangeWarning"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\OpenGL\Debug]
"ShaderObjects"=dword:00000001

Quite a few are out of date and unneeded now, but it's a one shot reg file for everything. If that doesn't work, try driver cleaner and so on.

[scrandman]

You need to re-enable it.

Start->Run->Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NVTweak

Add a DWORD key called Coolbits with HEX value 3.

[leeglf]

ok thanks for the suggestions i have tried everything it just wont work!

so i installed some older drivers (91.47) and they worked ok so reinstalled the new ones again and they still don't work!

oh well i am now running with the 91.47 drivers and they are working fine!

[chuckskull]

Try waiting a few days and redownloading, A few times I've had nvidia whql drivers do very odd things only to be fixed a week or so late silently.

happened with my 7950GT, the driver they bought out specifically to support had a bug where it didn't recognize the the 7950GT

[leeglf]

Try waiting a few days and redownloading, A few times I've had nvidia whql drivers do very odd things only to be fixed a week or so late silently.

happened with my 7950GT, the driver they bought out specifically to support had a bug where it didn't recognize the the 7950GT

ok thanks will do!

[Thorsson]

You could also try the stripped drivers at 3dguru.

[leeglf]

You could also try the stripped drivers at 3dguru.

thanks i have never heard of these before i will give them a go!