Desktop Enhancements

[Suprchargd]

Just 'upgraded' from 94.24 to 169.28 drivers. Lost the ability to use Classic control panel, before it let you choose between the old and new interface. Downloaded nTune which let me OC the card.

However, I can't find Desktop Enhancements in the control panel anywhere. I was running the Windows taskbar at around 60% opacity and wanted to do that again. Has nVidia gotten rid of this in the newer drivers?

[ViperJohn]

Just 'upgraded' from 94.24 to 169.28 drivers. Lost the ability to use Classic control panel, before it let you choose between the old and new interface. Downloaded nTune which let me OC the card.

However, I can't find Desktop Enhancements in the control panel anywhere. I was running the Windows taskbar at around 60% opacity and wanted to do that again. Has nVidia gotten rid of this in the newer drivers?

No the old Control Panel is still in the drivers (at least in the WinXP drivers) but you have
to do more to get it to work. You will also have a choice of the old or new panels from the
task bar pop up.

Open NotePad the copy and paste the following into a new text document:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\NvCplApi\Policies]
"ContextUIPolicy"=dword:00000001
"TaskbarUIPolicy"=dword:00000003
"CplGroupUIPolicy"=dword:00000000

After that save the file to somewhere you can find it with the name NV Dual CP.reg .

Exit Notepad then right click on the NV Dual CP.reg file you just saved, select "Merge"
to enter the new info into the registry and you you are done.

Note that when you uninstall/change drivers you will have to merge this data back into
the registry every time to get the old CP back.

Second dump nTune cause it is about the worst piece of computer code that was ever
written. It will not work correctly with the busted 169.xx drivers you have to use with
the G92 cards. Use RivaTuner to OC the card.

Viper

[Suprchargd]

Awesome man, you're info plus NVtweak got me everything back to how it should be.

I usually use ATItool and/or RivaTuner to OC my cards, didn't realize nTune was so bad, this was my first time using it.

Thanks for the help. :)

PS The new drivers got me another 9mhz on the core, bringing my stable overclock to 614mhz. Hard-locks on me at 620 though, probably going to do a voltmod eventually when I get the time.

[smokie mcpott]

thank you Viper, i love you:beer: