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What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe?

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2017/03/22 21:09:08 (permalink)
What is it and how do I turn it off? Do I need it? I use EVGA Precision XOC to give my 1070 SC a custom fan curve but something about it is causing a PrecisionXServer.exe process every few seconds/minutes. I just closed 8,000 processes and I don't even know what the Precision X Server is, or does.
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    Re: What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe? 2017/03/22 23:08:56 (permalink)
    PrecisionXServer = OSD (On Screen Display Monitoring)


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    Re: What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe? 2017/03/23 13:37:25 (permalink)
    Is there a reason it opens a process every few seconds that takes 1.1 mb of my ram?
     
    I mean, it's pretty damn pointless if something opens 8000 processes that each take 1.1 mb with it. Task Manager also doesnt like that many processes running it seems like.
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    Re: What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe? 2017/03/23 13:40:50 (permalink)
    Most likely a bug. I'd just completely disable osd if you don't need it.


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    Re: What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe? 2017/03/24 03:12:35 (permalink)
    curious as to why it causes a memory leak in WLMail.exe....

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    Re: What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe? 2017/03/24 23:16:20 (permalink)
    You need it clicked on for Frame rate display to show in (screen,tray or LCD ie G19 keyboard)

     
     
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    Re: What's PrecisionXServer and why does it eventually open thousands of .exe? 2017/03/30 18:15:27 (permalink)
    From what Alexey (creator of RivaTuner) told me with regard to his available time, he isn't developing anything related to GPUs/overclocking anymore (last we spoke a year and a half ago).  Just about every single company was/is paying Alexey royalties to use RivaTuner's core code which is what Precision-X, Afterburner, etc. either are or were (RivaTuner that had been skinned and revised for years and years).


    Just so people don't start trying to argue about the facts above here was my interview 4 years ago I published w/ videocardz.com

    Alexey: Currently RivaTuner core is powering MSI Afterburner and EVGA Precision (X) only, I had partnership offers from other vendors, but I simply have no time to work on so many projects at the same time. ASUS tried to promote their new ASUS GPU Tweak as RivaTuner based due to some odd reason, but it is not true, this tool is their own development. In the past RivaTuner core also powered HIS iTurbo and RightMark CPU Clock utility. Licensing of RivaTuner core is based on per-card royalty fees, which means that the vendor is paying me a few cents from each CD with software they are selling with graphics cards.

    Always thought it was funny that ASUS had such a bad tool in 2013 that they tried to say it was based on RivaTuner (since this was a selling point at that time).

    So I think we are going to see some growing pains such as with the server launching over and over.  I believe the Precision Server is still RivaTuner's Server code, it looks almost the same. However I think the overall source code moved away from RivaTuner in hopes of utilizing new hardware.


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