elitehacker

Hi there;
I was given a free vista operating system from my workplace, so I installed it on my pc to give it a try. It was all good until I want to play some games and benchmark. I have found that the nvidia driver provided for vista is very basic, it doesn't support hardware monitoring or overclocking, they even acknowledege that on the nvidia site. "This version is not fully optimized for full 3D performance and may not include all available features available on different operating systems.: [direct quote from the nvidia website] So as a result none of the other overclocking utilities work like Riva tuner and powerstrip, I was wonder if anyone was able to overclock a nvidia card under vista. I was running my 7900GT at 625Mhz core and 1700Mhz effective ram speed, so performance does take a big hit when it drops down to the stock speed of 470Mhz core and 1400Mhz effective ram.

Please help.

Thank you very much.