radeon 9600xt overdrive wont appear...

[apu95]

i just did a fresh install of xp and installed the 4.3 cats...i noticed that the overdrive part of the settings isnt there, but the VPU Recover is...is this normal?
if not, how can i get the overdrive function back?

thx!
Apu

 

[Xie]

Is it a "made by ATi" version of the card or 3rd party? I think some of the 3rd party cards don't support the feature as ATi didn't make them so they aren't gonna be to blame if you burn them.

 

[apu95]

thats the weird thing...yesterday and before yesterday the function was there, and i enabled it. even though its made by gigabyte, they still support that function

 

[Xie]

Hmm... you need someone wiser like Sazaar or others me thinks.

 

[plex]

I noticed this the other day as well..
I am running the 4.3 cats too, but I had assumed that
I had lost it because I had killed two processes of which
I deemed unnessessary that the ati software was running.

Perhaps has something todo with the 4.3s

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

I don't know but I want to find out I just got my 9600XT today mine is made by ASUS 128mb VIVO , I love the card moved over from my trusty Ti4200 128mb which is now in our other machine, would like to know more about this feature.

 

[apu95]

i dont know that card, but looks sweet...
anyway, overdrive is a feature that 9600xt (and onwards) cards have which consists of "auto overclocking". its totally supported by ATI so the card wont be "over overclocked"
u can enable it in the advanced properties of the card, u should have a section called overdrive and ull see 2 little thermometers there

 

[NerdUprising]

I have not updated to 4.2/4.3 because I have seen lots of bugs and actual performance drops (not neccessarily in fps, but other non-fun things)

I wouldn't be surprised if the overclock function dissapeared with some of the solidity... I'm rocking the 4.1's right now, and the overdrive + the temp scale (which wasnt in previous versions) shows up fine

 

[Xie]

9600 pro here and rocking the 4.3 cats fine ... but alas I don't have an XT so no overdrive for me anyhoo