Thanks for noticing that.
It's great nvidia finally made it available (actually over a year ago). I already wrote somewhere about problems with many games making card extremely noisy when entering game's menu as they don't have any limiter for menus.
vsync making menus 60fps was still making card very noisy. The game was 30fps and rather silent. I remember star wars force unleashed, wolfenstein, trine and i guess many more.

is this limiter the "new vsync" option they said they added? adaptive vsync? a setting in nv control panel? wouldn't mind turning this ON on my 660ti 😉

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/nvidia-introduc … ceware-drivers/

haven't read this: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=369912
but has pictures 😉

robertmo wrote:

Thanks for noticing that.
It's great nvidia finally made it available (actually over a year ago). I already wrote somewhere about problems with many games making card extremely noisy when entering game's menu as they don't have any limiter for menus.
vsync making menus 60fps was still making card very noisy. The game was 30fps and rather silent. I remember star wars force unleashed, return to castle wolfenstein, trine and i guess many more.

Yeah, coil whine is a huge problem. I guess it sucks if you pay big money for a new graphics card and run into something like this. It's on my old 9800 GTX+ as well. Unfortunately I couldn't get this feature to work so far, so I'm suspecting it's only for newer cards... 🙁

keropi wrote:

is this limiter the "new vsync" option they said they added? adaptive vsync? a setting in nv control panel? wouldn't mind turning this ON on my 660ti 😉

No, Adaptive VSync is supposed to turn VSync on and off depending on the situation or something. For the feature I'm talking about you need the program Nvidia Inspector, because they don't have the option to set it in the driver so far.

Often the whine actually comes from the PSU. But yea it's quite annoying. I had a very bad case and swapped the card out at the shop because of this.

Based on what they said in the above forum link
I think Adaptive VSync turns vsync off when fps is lower than refreshrate and turns vsync on when it is higher (so it doesn't slow down what is already slow)

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Often the whine actually comes from the PSU. But yea it's quite annoying. I had a very bad case and swapped the card out at the shop because of this.

Even worse is when you can't play old games on the new card because of tearing...

d1stortion wrote:

Even worse is when you can't play old games on the new card because of tearing...

Doesn't vsync handle that?

robertmo wrote:

d1stortion wrote:

Even worse is when you can't play old games on the new card because of tearing...

Doesn't vsync handle that?

Yes but it introduces input lag.

It's much better on a CRT with higher refresh rates.

Or 120Hz LEDs of course...

I think it would be pretty cool to have an old card in another PCIe slot and then be able to switch to it depending on the game 😁 but everyone is only about SLI/Crossfire, dedicated PhysX cards etc 🙄

I rather have monitors that sync to the video card. OLED anyone?

Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

Often the whine actually comes from the PSU. But yea it's quite annoying. I had a very bad case and swapped the card out at the shop because of this.

You can get coil whine with some PSUs if they're pushed, but i find more often it's the GPU or in some cases the CPU VRMs on the motherboard... I've only ever had one PSU with coil whine and it was a cheap and nasty "builder series" Corsair CX600 😒.

I RMA'd a 'HIS 7950 IceQ Boost Clock' a while back due to loud coil whine. The replacement has been perfect ever since! Coil whine is a joke these days and shouldn't even exist with all the solid type components that are supposedly being used... And coil whine isn't really classed as a fault either.

btw here is my old thread about the problem
Paused game -> hot (noisy) gfx card

anyway fps limiter works on my nvidia gtx 285 with Nvidia Inspector win7 (30fps) so at least my problem is solved 😉

I have GTX295 maybe i can help you analyze the problem?

sorry for confusion, i edited my post,
it is d1stortion that has the problem not me

anyway d1stortion it looks you can just get some cheap used 285 as it is supported 😀 I guess 480/580/680 and upcoming 780 will work too 😉

Did you try it with VSync on and off? I tried very few games, namely NFSU2 and Skulltag/Zandronum and they didn't work with the feature. Only VSync worked for capping the framerate but that often sucks, lots of input lag.

Also 9800 and 285 are close in terms of architecture so it normally should work imo. Well when I feel like it I'm going to try it again with some new drivers 😀

30fps confirmed by fraps is definitely not reduced by vsync 😉

btw i am using nvidia Inspector 1.9.7.1 and i wonder where is this file from as official site doesn't seem to be updated since Februar 17th, 2011
http://www.orbmu2k.de/

1.9.7.1 is the newest I think. By the way another great feature in that tool is SGSSAA with negative LOD, top notch image quality if the card can handle it 😀