This is great reverse engineering, and awesome the author put up the source code, but I wonder if Nvidia will try to take it down on "copyright claims"? Either way I've saved a copy of the article for later use. The author is right that the existing "approved" overclocking tools are garbage.
Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs
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Re: Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs
#12Well done sir.
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#13I wonder why nvidia refuses to release their public API unless you sign an NDA. Are they just worried people will buy cheaper cards and overclock them?
They are probably worried about people physically damaging their hardware.
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#14This is great reverse engineering, and awesome the author put up the source code, but I wonder if Nvidia will try to take it down on "copyright claims"? Either way I've saved a copy of the article for later use. The author is right that the existing "approved" overclocking tools are garbage.
MSI Afterburner runs pretty well. Not sure if it is "approved" or not, but I'd assume so as MSI is an Nvidia partner.
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#15This is great reverse engineering, and awesome the author put up the source code, but I wonder if Nvidia will try to take it down on "copyright claims"? Either way I've saved a copy of the article for later use. The author is right that the existing "approved" overclocking tools are garbage.
they can try, but you're allowed to reverse engineer. Which is why DMCA was written...
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#16this is fantastic
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#17It probably serves as a convenient layer for not breaking the API across updates and also for obfuscating the entry points where the goods are to be found.
It sounds like its actually just the QueryInterface from COM[1]
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#18Not everyone buying those graphics cards is a 14yo xXX_l33thaxor1ny0ma|\/|4_XXx who wants dragons and giant robots on their packaging.
I'm a professional software engineer and I want dragons and giant robots on my packaging. :(
(writing backends for web services that will never see the light of day outside where I work, of course, so I don't even have any packaging to make a branding argument about.)
Spot on about the UI, though. I just want my command line tools to have dragons and giant robots on their packaging.
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#19Am i the only one who is fascinated by the choice of:
-the website name
-the about section
-the contact email id
?
Re: Reversing NvAPI to Programmatically Overclock Nvidia GPUs
#20This is great reverse engineering, and awesome the author put up the source code, but I wonder if Nvidia will try to take it down on "copyright claims"? Either way I've saved a copy of the article for later use. The author is right that the existing "approved" overclocking tools are garbage.
MSI Afterburner runs pretty well. Not sure if it is "approved" or not, but I'd assume so as MSI is an Nvidia partner.
I've found that simply having Afterburner installed would cause bluescreens on my Maxwell card, even if no settings were altered. Although many people are blaming TDR issues in Nvidia's recent drivers, so who knows. Either way, Afterburner is a hog, has terrible UI and plenty of unneeded features (for me :). Other similar apps, like EVGA Precision appear to be re-skins of the exact same codebase.