GPU Caps Viewer 1.6.2 is a System Maintenance product from ozone3d.net, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, GpuCapsViewer is an OpenGL graphics card utility for Windows XP and Vista (32-bits). This software offers the following features:
* quick view of the graphics configuration (graphics card / GPU type, amount of video memory, drivers version)
* display of the main OpenGL abilities (OpenGL version, texture size, number of texture units, etc.)
* display of the OpenGL extensions supported by your graphics card or display of all existing OpenGL extensions no matter what graphics card you have. For each extension, you can open its description webpage available at the OpenGL Extension Registry or at NVIDIA's OpenGL Extensions spec. Very convenient for graphics developers!
* display of the system configuration: CPU type and speed, amount of systeme memory, operating system
* GPU Burner: allows to make the GPU temperature climb in order to test the graphics card stability. You can actually open as many 3D views as you want in order to make your graphics card working to the maximum. For NVIDIA cards, the GPU temperature is also displayed.
* list of links related to your graphics card: graphics drivers and graphics cards reviews. These links are regularly updated.
* full report in text and XML format. This kind of report is useful for developers who needs an outline of the customer graphics system (for support purposes for example).
Whats New in 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 demoss 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.
Bugfix: 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.
Known issue: under Vista the temperature for GeForce based graphics cards is not displayed. The license of this windows utility software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Windows Utility software.