This mod lets Nvidia GeForce owners run a custom VBIOS without flashing the card

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Enthusiast zone: Nvidia's signed firmware has kept BIOS modding off the table for GeForce owners for the most part. A new set of tools sidesteps that lock rather than breaking it, loading a custom VBIOS through the driver itself. It reopens a door enthusiasts thought was closed, but it arrives on a platform where power connectors are already at risk of melting on high-end GPUs and a single driver update could shut it down. Proceed carefully.

A developer has released three tools that let GeForce RTX 30, 40 and 50 series owners run a modified VBIOS without writing to the card's flash chip: a VBIOS editor for Windows and Linux, plus separate loaders for each operating system.

The cool trick is that nothing gets flashed. On Windows, the loader stores the edited image...

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