Download GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.0

Ozone3d has released a new version of GPU Caps Viewer with 1.6.0 as the version designation. With this program you can request information about the installed video card and associated drivers under Windows XP and Vista. In addition, it indicates which Opengl functions are supported and a number of stress tests can be run on the video card to measure stability. The latter can be useful when overclocking the video card. The list of changes of GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.0 looks like this:

Version 1.6.0:

• New: button in first tab to display PhysX control panel.
• New: graphics hardware detection code is now done by the ZoomGPU engine.
• Change: Geometry Instancing support detection for ATI Radeon graphics cards. Now with Catalyst 8.11 the geometry instancing demo works fine on Radeon.
• Change: added ForceWare 178.24 and Catalyst 8.10 to database.
• Bug fix: in driver version detection.
• Change: version 1.6.0

Version 1.5.2:

• Change: added ForceWare 177.92 and Catalyst 8.8 to database.
• Change: updated OpenGL extensions database.
• Change: version 1.5.2
• More information on this version: GPU Caps Viewer 1.5.2 @ Geeks3D

Version 1.5.0:

• New: added new demo: HW Geometry Instancing. Works with GeForce 8 (and higher), S3 Graphics Chrome 400 series (430 GT, 440 GTX). This demo requires the support of Shader Model 4.0
• New : added command line parameters to set the default size of demos’s window. Example: c:\>gpucapsviewer /width=1920 /height=1200
• Change: improved HDR demo with radial blur.
• Change: density of mesh plane (500k triangles) in the Vertex Texture Fetching demo. This demo works fine with NVIDIA GeForce 6+, S3 Graphics Chrome 400 (430 GT and 440 GTX) and should work one day with Radeon 2k/3k (bug in Catalyst?).
• Bugfix: render target init for ATI and S3 Graphics (HDR demo).
• New: added a simple splashscreen to give some startup information.
• New: added NVIDIA PhysX driver detection.
• Bugfix: msaa was set to 2X at initialization and this value prevents a correct init of S3 Graphics Chrome 430 GT.
• Bugfix: small bug in the detection of GPU Caps Viewer version.
• Bugfix: in opengl extensions list box, driver information was not correct.
• Bug fix: small bug in drivers detection (XP and Vista).
• Bugfix: small bug in GPU Caps Viewer installer (new version tries to install into old folder).
• Change: added ForceWare 177.66 and Catalyst 8.7 to database.
• Change: added detection of GeForce GTX 260/280 and Radeon 4850/4870/4870 X2.
• Change: version 1.5.0
• Known issue: under Vista the temperature for GeForce based graphics cards is not displayed.