MSI Afterburner v4.6.1 ‘ist afterburner ultimate graphics cant utility, codeveloped by MsIand RiaTuner teams. Pease Vt hips://msicom/page/afterourer to {get more information about the productand dovnload new versions SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: FEATURE: KNOWN LIMITATION: REVISION HISTORY: Version 4.6.1. 4 Version 4.6.0 (puststeD ow 09.03.2019) 5 Version 45.0 (pustsHeD on 24.04.2018) 7 Version 4.4.2 (pususneD ow 18.12.2017) 9 Version 4.4.1 (pususHeD ow 09.12.2017) 9 Version 4.4.0 (pustsHeD ow 01.11.2017) 9 Version 4.3.0 (puststeD om 27.10.2016) 2 Version 4.2.0 (puststeD ow 07.12.2015) 4 Version 4.1.1 (pususHeD on 28.05.2015) 4 Version 4.1.0 (pusisHeD on 22.12.2014) 1s Version 4.0.0 (pustsHeD ow 04.09.2014) 16 Version 3.0.1 (puststeD ow 10.06.2014) uv Version 3.0.0 (puststeD ow 21.05.2014) uv Version 2.3.1 (pustsneD on 23.01.2013) 19 Version 2.3.0 (puststeD ow 19.11.2012) 19 Version 2.2°5 (pususHeD ow 31.10.2012) 20 Version 2.2.4 (pususteD ow 17.09.2012) 20 Version 2.2.3 (pususHeD om 24.07.2012) a Version 2.2.2 (pustsHeD on 20.06.2012) a Version 2.2.1 (pususneD ow 14.05.2012) a Version 2.2.0 (pustsHeD ow 19.04.2012) a Version 2.1.0 (pususteD on 24.02.2011) 25 Version 2.0.0 (puststeD ow 02.09.2010) 26 Version 1.6.1 (pususteD ow 12.07.2010) 27 Version 1.6.0 (pustsHeD ow 07.06.2010) 27 Version 1.5.1 (euststeD ow 13.03.2010) 28 Version 1.5.0 (pustsHeD ow 10.02.2010) 23 Version 1.4.2 (pususteD ow 07.01.2010) 23 Version 1.4.1 (pususteD on 23.11.2009) 30 Version 1.4.0 (pususteD ow 11.11.2009) 30 Version 1.3.0 (puststeD ow 19.10.2009) 30 Version 1.2.0 (pususteD ow 12.10.2009) BL Version 1.1.0 (puststeD ow 01.10.2009) BL Version 1.0.0 (pususteD ow 17.09.2009) BLSystem requirements: Windows xP, Windows Veta, Windous 7, Windows 8, Windows 8. oF Windows 20 (both 86 and x68 versions) with full admintrative ght NVIDIA GeFore Gor newer series graphics cand with NVIDIA ForeWare 96x or higher drivers * AMO RADEON HO 2000 or newer series graphs card with AMD Catahst9_30r higher drivers * ‘Amy graphics cai can be wed tstart application in inte functionality mode” Features: ‘Sased on RiaTuner core, afterburner contains the mit ofthe most popularand frequently wed RivaTuner technologies exposed in ‘new simple ad effective user intertace United features for both AD and NVIDIA graphs cards. You no longer need to change your favorite graphs card wtlty software ‘when migrating from 1VIDIA graphics card to AMD and vice vera, afterburer provides you almost the same functionally for hardware manufactured by both kading GPU vendom and males migration process realy e2ty. nt keep overocking and ‘monitoring your GPU lie you are wed to do, no need to change your preferences and search for other uty after graphs card upgrade! User extendable architecture. You may express your creativity and design your own skins for MSI Afterburner, develop monitoring plugins or external application: interacting with Msi afterburner (eg. silebar gadgets or smartphone applications remotely controling your hardware), create lbcaleation for your native guage and many, many more! ‘Basic overclocking and fan control feature inc ang full mul-GPU suppor, independent shaderclockadjustment (WVIDIA GeForce 18,9 and 200:ere cards, overclocking ad fancontol profes with hotley based acthation abilities Power lima contolva AMD PowerTune and NVIDIA GPU Boost technobgies Desltop and ingame screen capture features support. BMP, PNG and JPG formas are supported* ‘eakime desktop and ingame video capture support via Predator™technobeg’. Uncompressed, high performance custom RIVA ‘and native MPG video encoding, encoding with thin-pary external VEW compatible codecs (eg. tagarith or x26ivtw) and hardware accelerated encoding via Intel Quichsyne, WVIDIA NVENC ad AMD VCE ae supported in conjunction with wide ange of ‘additional veo capture ebted options, mutzoure stereo and multichannel (for Window Vita and never) audio capture with ‘ust To-Talksupport. The functionality of expensive commercial veo capture prodicts now avaiable to everyone abroltely for ‘ree! There & no need to buy dedicated video capture software anymore! ‘Advanced fan contol Most of fan contol took allow you to use either fired manualfanspeed mode or default automatic fanspeed ‘mode, where the fan speed automation: performed ether by dedicated hardvare chip or by disp driver depending on graphs ‘cand model. maddition to these traditional fan contol modes sfterbumerako provi wer defined software automatic fan speed ‘mode allowing you to define your ovn fan speed cure. New mode combines fexbilty of RivaTuner’ fan speed scheduling ‘technology with new and really easy to we graphical interface forvsualfanspeed curve editing ‘arduare health monitoring features including popular tray kon, Logitech LcD and Onscreen Déphy’ monitoring modes and hhetor ging in mative RivaTuner a vare monitoring lg fie format ‘Automatic profiles management system allows experienced users to define their own dynamic dovnclocking rules on the systems ith no hardware downelochng support or programditferent fan contol modes for 20nd 30 applcations" com auxilary VDOCVPEXVDD/AVE and memory ® vokage contol gies more freedom to harkcore overtocler. 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The server will be automatically hunched by MSt Afterburner as soon as you enable any of the features lsted above, You vil not beable to shut down the server manly while ‘these features ae in we, thats by design of Mt Afterburner ‘+ Framerate montoring, On Screen Diy, screen capture, video capture and automat: profiles management functionality can be incompatible with some thnt-party On Screen Déplay software (eg. XFire orSteam m-Game Chat). The limitation ot specie to ‘our product, many thin-pary products are designed to be the only Om screen Disp products in the systemand to block their own unctonalty when anyother On screen Display software & running “+ antcteat systems of come online games may restrct On-Screen Disphy urage and blackconnection tothe ener when RivaTuner Stats Server runningRevision history: Version 4.6.1 ‘Added new 651 Touch of Modern skin by rerex design ‘Added asynchronous dual fan contol suppor for reference design NVIDIA GeFore RIX 200 series graphics cant. Please tale 2 ‘note that only 100% NVIDIA reference design dual fan control implementations ae supported, thd party proprietary asychronots ‘fan contol solutions (e. EVGA ick series asynchronous fans) 2 not supported and wil not be supported in future versions. The ‘folowing asynchronous fancontro functionality & avaiable ‘Added new “Synchronize fon speeds” button, which allowing you to switch between synchronous and asypehronours ‘fan contol modes. Please tale 2 note that new fan speed controk are available inva skins only, v3 and v2 skins ae deprecated and no longer receive new functionality When fan speeds synchronéation & enabled, MSI Afterburner fan control functionality behaves exactly Mle in the previous vesion, ie. both fans ae running 2synchronicaly in default hardvare automatic fan speed contol mede but ‘become linked synchroncaly # you enable mamualorsoftvare automat fanspeed contol mode When fan speeds syachroneation & déabled, you may select and adjust each fan speed independently. For software ‘automatic fanspeed control mode independent temperature cures are ako adjustable foreach fan ‘+ improved hardvare monitoring module: Inverted hotleystandling approach for mukipl selected hardvare montorng graphs. Previous single graph settings ‘mode vas active by default, but you coul apply some settings eg. “Show in On Screen Display’) to multiple selected ‘raphe with hotley modifier wed toapply settings to singe focused graph ‘Group operation notifier has been moved to hanivare monitoring graph properties header Improved backuard compatibility with monitoring profies created inthe previous versions of application. is no longer necessary to mecreate the profes having monitoring settings without On-Screen Disp layout timo longer necessary to click button inele the On-Screen Dephay Byout edorafter changing current ByoUr, ‘now the changes are applied properly on closing the editor “The progress of saving mulipe graph’ settings now displayed inthe caption ofthe applications property sheet Optimized handling of “diy” fag for settings decreases saving time for mukiple graphs settings when using mutiple subsequent group operations ‘Added new “hie attached monitoring panel” command to the context menu of hardvare monitoring window. You may se ito toggle viblty of monitoring window when ts attached tothe mainapplcation window Now youray press + <= hotkeys to toggle monitoring window attachment ‘+ improved vokage/trequency cure editor for both AnD and NVIDIA GPUS: tow you may hol or s oF kay. You may stil manually toggle this mode with hotkey anytime when editing ‘the group rae © OnScreen Diphy tem type (ie. text, raph or combination ofboth) now disphyed in “Properties” column of active hardware monitoring graph tin “Monitoring” tab in the application properties © Added programmable hotly forcearing monitoring history © Added “Appi” buton to application properties window. Now you may Aeratvely customize monitoring module without sing the properties 1o see the result on eachstep. Please tale a note that some properties (¢.applcation bnguage) ‘cannot be applied untilyoucompletely close properties window by design ofapplcation © Application properties dialog window & now disphyed with topmost style when the properties are activated from {detached monitoring window and “always ontop” mode enabled fort Now ‘hark minimum” and “Mark maximum” commands are avaiable in the context menu of monforing window even when a fragment of history & not selected. In thi case the commands recut in setting tracking mater in a global ‘extremum position. You may still ue lay in monitoring window to capture prin friendly screenshot of handvare monitoring history {raphs. The screenshot inclules Msi Afterburner watermark by deal, you may custome it by replacing overly png ‘ie located in.\Grophics for. Ths feature canbe usefulfor hardware reviewers ow you may hold key then click unvanted graphs in hardware monitoring hétory viewer mede to hide them. Thi ‘feature can be useful before capturing print friendly screenshot, you want to exclude unnecessary graphs from it Improved On-Screen Display byout editor. ‘+ sjstem reserved variable slots 250-255 are now displayed a 5ystemvariables inthe yout editor ‘+ Added embedded graphs support. Embedded graphs can be dsphyed directly in the text ina separate column, itcan be convenient fordspayng percore CPU wages + Added embedded graph witthadjustmentvarableto the “croph” property node ‘+ dded new “eroph placement” property node. Youcan use it to place each graph ontop of txt, on bottomor rmale embedded in in txtcohumn + Added new varable to “Separators” property node. Now you may define independent separator for the graphs cated ontop of text part, for the text part and forthe graphs located on bottom of text par. ‘slighty altered interpretation of prolog and epiog separators. Pkase tale 2 note that probog separator no longer automatically appended with new line symbol, so you must specify t manually when necessary and epg separator now displayed below the bottomgroupof graphs +The tof hardware monitoring tems in “A items)" dialog window i alphabetéaly sorted now 1 Added macroses for embedding any data from montoring module into OSD text (2. probe). You may we rmacrores to display anything available inthe monforing mod ul, eg. CPU temperatures ‘+ improved on-screen Display hypertext formating performance due to more optimal macro replace strategy + pevamped “modern web’ layout New yout & demonstrating new text formatting features including big custom framerate counter, customembedded background and On creed Disp header, custom benchmark and sytem time indkator and embedded cPUand GPU wage raphe + onscreen Diphy yout are saved in monitoring profes now Improved Hino pig: + sadded UPS bad, power, input votage and charge kvel datasources to defeut plugin configuration Improved vokage/trequency editor: Volage/frequency editor window é now avaiable on AMO GPUs. On AMO platform talovs you to editcore frequencies ‘and votagesindepende ty pereach P-stat: ‘Similar to NVIDIA GPUs, you may ether adjust each point frequency oF votage independently with both mouse and leyboard (/+ | keys), oll hey and drag single point to apply simiarfequery or vokage offee tal states or hol <> key and drag single pont toad the same offet to each Pstate frequency orvolage oft = You may press / leys 1o switch between frequency oF vokage leyboar input focus forselcted Pstate + pead only Pstates are currently not tracked, which means that you can try to adjust the frequency and votage fr locked states but changes willbe Gnored whenappying the cure ‘states locking functional & not implemented yet tow you may press / keys when 2 point i selected to switch tothe next / previous point. Ths ‘feature can be weful youre fine-tuning the offes from leyboant ‘Now you may press ley whema point selected 1 type indesired frequency orvohage ofet fort Now you may press lays when a point & selected to type in absolute desied frequency or voltage ‘explkity and let the edor to cakulbte the offet automatically ‘Added undo/redo suppor: + How votage/tequency curve editor saving up 101028 lst states of the curve during editing and allovs you to undo/redo changes with orter> / hye + Undo history & dcanted when youapply the curve + mumberof econted undo/redo steps displayed insquare braclets inthe editor window caption ‘Slightly increased defeult voltage range for volage/frequency curve. Now you may lckvotage to lower values i you're ‘wing vottage/fequency editor to dovmot and reduce pover consumption on your NVIDIA GPU. Pover wsers may ‘custome the ange furter, the vottage ad frequency limits ae ful adjustable via the configuration fe Now you may press ley inthe editor window to reread the cure from hardvave. Thi feature can be useful when adjusting the curve inchanging thermalenvionment Voltage and frequency aes are dynamically scaled now, so the captions do not overlap when window é too small Improved tardware contol shared memory interface. During the past yeas, extemal applications like M151 emote Server were ‘sing thi imefacefortuning GPU handvaresetings remotely fromextermalappleations. The improvements are itended to albw ‘connecting evteralstress testing and automatic overclocking rebated applications to 1s afterburner vi this interface: Now volage/frequency curve on NVIDIA Fascaland never NVIDIA GPU architectures accessible via hardware control Shared memory intertace New hardvare contol shared memory interface command allows MSI Afterburner to fad hardvare settings from ‘extermalappleation without immediately applying new settings to GPU Added notification message, allowing exteral appleation to notiy MSI Afterburner about new command wien 12 fardvare contol shared memory. Without the notification, MSI Afterbumerf executing external commands on each