Big Jim

Quote: Originally Posted by mot19 There are alot of hard to find guides out there that involve soldering and hardware modding. Well now with the new rivatuner you can do it software style with no flashing. First make sure your 6800 is getting enough power cuz this will drain more then normally on it, i would recommend giving it its own line just for it, no other attacked devices. Also have the most recent drives which can be found HERE Now open up rivatuner, if you dont have it get it URL=http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?page=rivatuner&menu=8]HERE[/url] Once opened you will see this now click the arrow circled above, you will see this click the card circled there. Next will come this click the Nvstrap tab at the top as circled there. Now heres the tricky part, at the bottom click install, then clcik enable hardware masked units, press ok to the warning, then change the dropbar to custom, then click customize. Now you will be at this screen right here Select the missing pipes and vertex shaders by selecting the ones missing, basicly make it look like mine above. Press ok quit and restart. If everything went ok you should get a MASSIVE increase in performance. Now beware alot of times the pipes are disabled for good reasons such as damaged pipes and what not. Now if you pc wont boot into windows without giving you crazy lockups then press f8 alot before windows boots and go into vga mode and enter rivatuner and turn the pipes off. If your just getting some artifacts in games you may be able to deal with it (for example everyone in awhile a texture looks funny) but in my case and my friends they were able to be enabled with no problems. Oh and heres all the worning bs, doing this may void your warranty, i am not responsible for any damages done by this guide, do at your own risk. Even though no one i know who has done this trick has actually damaged their hardware i guess it is a slight possibility of it happening. Doing this will also void your warranty. But since has anyone here at pr cared about our warrantys

Hey bro, iam using drivers that arent fm approved, can you guide me to a place where i can get some good drivers??? thanx Big Jim....