MSI Afterburner Changelog

What's new in MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Build 16381 Beta 3

Feb 17, 2024

Ported to VC++ 2022 compiler. Please take a note that due to this change MSI Afterburner will no longer be able to start under
Windows XP. Please stay on the previous versions of the product if you need this OS support
Please take a note that size of mandatory VC++ 2022 runtime redistributables roughly doubled comparing to the previously used
VC++ 2008 redistributables, and we’d like to avoid providing overblown application distributive, drastically increased in size due to
bundling newer and much heavier VC++ redistributables with it. To deal with this issue we provide our own original tiny web
installer for VC++ redistributables, which allowed decreasing the size of final application distributive drastically even comparing to
the previous VC++ 2008 based version. Please take a note that install time can be increased slightly due to downloading VC++ 2022
runtimes redistributables on the fly during installation. If you install MSI Afterburner offline, you can always deploy required VC++
2022 distributives later with web installer by launching .RedistVCRedistDeploy.bat
Added voltage control support for AMD RADEON RX 7800XT series graphics cards
Added some future NVIDIA GPU PCI DeviceIDs to hardware database
Now MSI Afterburner reinitializes skin scaling engine on DPI scaling change events to prevent cases when GUI looks cut off in some
cases (e.g. after switching between display resolutions with different DPI scaling settings)
Fixed instances enumeration for some performance counters with no localized names (e.g. GPU related Windows performance
counters) in PerfCounter.dll plugin
Added experimental support for "Beta : Use Unicode UTF-8 for global language support" option enabled in administrative regional
OS settings. Now each localization description file contains additional "Codepage" field, defining runtime ANSI to UTF8 conversion
rule for selected language pack
Seriously revamped German and Ukrainian localizations
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.5:
o New version’s changes list is huge, it includes more than 90 compatibility enhancements, changes and new features
including programmable conditional layers support, PresentMon and NVIDIA Reflex integration

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.5 Build 16370 (Oct 4, 2023)

Added NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40x0 series graphics cards support
Added voltage control support for GA103 and GDDR6x based versions of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti
Added AMD RADEON RX 7900 series graphics cards support
Added total board power monitoring support for AMD RADEON RX 7900 series graphics cards
Added some future AMD and NVIDIA GPU PCI DeviceIDs to hardware database
Added Intel Arc GPUs support to hardware monitoring module. Please take a note that Intel Arc GPUs overclocking and tuning is currently not supported due to Intel hardware control API support limitation to x64 applications only
Added experimental support for Intel 13th generation CPUs
Added experimental support for AMD Ryzen 7xxx CPUs
CPU usage data sources in hardware monitoring module have been switched to alternate implementation based on NtQuerySystemInformation(SystemProcessorIdleInformation), because traditional legacy idle time reporting in NtQuerySystemInformation(SystemProcessorPerformanceInformation) is broken in current Windows 11 22H2 builds
Added workaround for broken fixed fan speed programming API (Overdrive 5 compatible fallback path) for old Overdrive 7 GCN GPUs on 22.5.2 and newer AMD drivers
Added config file switch for disabling native reliability voltage control API on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 9x0 series graphics cards and forcing legacy P-state 2.0 voltage control API usage on such hardware. Power users may use this switch to bypass voltage control lock on NVIDIA Maxwell series graphics cards on release 515 and newer drivers families
Improved correction formula parser with data format conversion, rounding and min/max functions support
Added OCMailbox based bus clock frequency monitoring for Skylake and newer Intel CPUs. Unlike traditional legacy timestamp clock based bus clock frequency estimations, OCMailbox provides support for overclocked BCLK monirtoring. Please take a note that access to OCMailbox is blocked by design of OS when HVCI is enabled
Improved SMART.dll monitoring plugin. Added temperature monitoring support for NVMe devices, including the secondary controller temperature for some Samsung NVMe drives
Default clock frequency limit of voltage/frequency curve editor window has been extended to 3.5GHz. Please take a note that you may still customize the limits via config file if necessary
Update server location changed to new URL inside update checking system. Old update server location reached EOL

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.4 Build 16255 (Aug 17, 2022)

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.4 Build 16117 Beta 4 (Oct 6, 2021)

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 Build 15840 Beta 2 (Sep 18, 2020)

Added NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture support:
Added new fan control 3.0 API support o Added new integrated OC Scanner API support, please read below to get more information about new OC Scanner implementation
Updated bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application:
Starting from 455.xx drivers family, NVIDIA OS Scanner is no longer implemented as a separate software component redistributed with each AIC partner's overclocking software. Now NVIDIA OC Scanner is integrated into the driver and third party software can natively access it via NVAPI. Such implementation simplifies the process of OC Scanner maintenance for NVIDIA, it is no longer necessary to ship updated software components to AIC partners and re-release each partners's software when something needs to be changed inside OC Scanner from NVIDIA side. MSI Overclocking Scanner supports both implementations of NVIDIA OC Scanner API:
Old legacy implementation of NVIDIA OC Scanner via separate software components for NVIDIA Pascal and Turing architectures for pre-455.xx drivers family
New integrated NVAPI based implementation of NVIDIA OC Scanner for 455.xx and newer NVIDIA display drivers
New NVAPI based OC scanner implementation features the following changes and improvements:
Automated overlocking support for both core and memory clocks
OC Scanners's results are now persistent. It means that once the scanning process succeeds, NVIDIA driver internally saves optimized voltage/frequency curve and overclocked memory clock and apply them as new system defaults after reboot, even if you close or uninstall overclocking application. Now there is new "Revert" button inside MSI Overclocking Scanner, which allows you to revert overclocked curve and memory clocks to their real defaults
Manually adjusted clock/frequency curve stability testing functionality is deprecated and no longer available
Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30x0 series graphic cards
Added new MSI Ampere and Indigo skins by Drerex design
Added experimental support for Intel 10th generation CPUs
Added native NVAPI based implementation of absolute GPU power monitoring for NVIDIA GPUs
Altered synchronization mutex name for AMD SNM registers access in AMD Ryzen temperature monitoring implementation
Fixed abnormally high PCIE bus usage value monitored on NVIDIA GPUs after display driver crash and recovery or on Optimus platforms when discrete GPU is sleeping
Added workaround for AMD driver bug causing short display flicker during applying new fan settings on some multi-monitor or single monitor high refresh rate display configurations
Now MSI Afterburner is forcibly disabling Zero RPM when applying new fixed fan speed in order to bypass AMD driver bug preventing fan control from working when Zero RPM mode is enabled on some systems. If Zero RPM is working properly on your system and you still want to keep it enabled when adjusting fan speed, you may disable forcible Zero RPM override with power oriented switch in application configuration file
Now MSI Afterburner is displaying the minimum allowed fan speed in software fan curve editor window on Overdrive 8 capable AMD GPUs. The latest AMD drivers will not allow you to set fan speed below this limit, that’s by design of driver
AMD ADL components are loaded by absolute path now to prevent possible DLL hijacking
Tightened IO driver access policy, the driver can no longer be accessed by users with no administrative rights  RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.3.0. This version introduces plugins architecture and brand new visual overlay editor plugin, we strongly recommend you to try it if you’re advanced user and want to customize your OSD beyond the possibilities of MSI Afterburner’s internal OSD layout editor

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.1 (Apr 22, 2019)

Added new MSI Touch of Modern skin by Drerex design
Added asynchronous dual fan control support for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards.
Only 100% NVIDIA reference design dual fan control implementations are supported, third party proprietary asynchronous fan control solutions (e.g. EVGA iCX series asynchronous fans) are not supported and will not be supported in future versions.
The following asynchronous fan control functionality is available:
Added new “Synchronize fan speeds” button, which is allowing you to switch between synchronous and asynchronours fan control modes. Please take a note that new fan speed controls are available in v4 skins only, v3 and v2 skins are deprecated and no longer receive new functionality
When fan speeds synchronization is enabled, MSI Afterburner’s fan control functionality behaves exactly like in the previous version, i.e. both fans are running asynchronically in default hardware automatic fan speed control mode but become linked synchronically if you enable manual or software automatic fan speed control mode
When fan speeds synchronization is disabled, you may select and adjust each fan speed independently. For software automatic fan speed control mode independent temperature curves are also adjustable for each fan
Improved hardware monitoring module:
Inverted hotkeys handling approach for multiple selected hardware monitoring graphs. Previously single graph settings mode was active by default, but you could apply some settings (e.g. “Show in On-Screen Display”) to multiple selected graphs with hotkey modifier. Now such settings are applied to multiple selected graphs by default and hotkey modifier is used to apply settings to single focused graph
Group operation notifier has been moved to hardware monitoring graph properties header
Improved backward compatibility with monitoring profiles created in the previous versions of application. It is no longer necessary to recreate the profiles having monitoring settings without On-Screen Display layout
It is no longer necessary to click button inside the On-Screen Display layout editor after changing current layout, now the changes are applied properly on closing the editor
The progress of saving multiple graphs’ settings is now displayed in the caption of the application’s property sheet
Optimized handling of “dirty” flag for settings decreases saving time for multiple graph’s settings when using multiple subsequent group operations
Added new “Hide attached monitoring panel” command to the context menu of hardware monitoring window.
You may use it to toggle visibility of monitoring window when it is attached to the main application window
Now you may press + hotkeys to toggle monitoring window attachment
Improved voltage/frequency curve editor for both AMD and NVIDIA GPUs:
Now you may hold and press left mouse button on initial desired horizontal position in the editor window to begin fragment selection, then drag mouse cursor to desired final horizontal position and release left mouse button to select a fragment.
The following functionality is available for selected fragments:
You may double click the editor window to reset fragment selection
You may adjust the offset for any point inside the selection with mouse cursor to apply the same offset simultaneously to all selected points
You may adjust the offset for any point inside the selection with keyboard cursor keys, or + keys to apply the same offset or specify the same target frequency or voltage for all selected points
Improved skin engine:
Skin engine no longer crashes when switching between the skins having the same site with and without alpha channel
Added thumbless skinned slider controls support
Added alpha path threshold support for skinned slider controls
Improved skin cross-compatibility layer:
Extended list of applications supported by skin cross-compatibility layer
Various compatibility fixes for third party skins supported by cross-compatibility layer
Fixed issue with GUI stopping responding during adjusting skin scaling ratio on the fly in high DPI mode when skin composition mode was set to layered mode with alpha
Updated third party hardware database:
Added new third party voltage control capable graphics cards to the database
Added new third party graphics cards with multichannel GPU, memory and VRM temperature sensors to the database
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.2

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.0.14820 (Mar 7, 2019)

Added Monolithic Power Systems MP2884A and MP2888A voltage controllers support
Added core, memory, auxiliary PEXVDD and auxiliary 1V8 voltage control for custom design MSI RTX 2080Ti Lightning series graphics cards with MP2888A + MP2884A +uP1816 voltage regulators
Added VRM and VRM2 temperature monitoring for custom design MSI RTX 2080Ti Lightning series graphics cards
Added fan control support for AMD Adrenalin 2019 drivers family. Please take a note that AMD Adrenalin 2019 drivers adjust fan speed in PWM duty cycle mode but fan speed monitoring is provided in RPM only, which means that you cannot read back exact programmed fan speed in percents. Due to this limitation, MSI Afterburner is reporting fan speed as percent of maximum RPM instead of real fan duty cycle when default AMD auto fan control is in use. So monitored fan speed can slightly mismatch programmed fan speed curve if you're using default AMD automatic fan control.
Added new MSI Gaming Z skin by Drerex Design
Added framerate limiter compatibility settings group to “On-Screen Display” tab to the application properties. The settings include programmable hotkeys for globally disabling, enabling or toggling framerate limiting techniques of RivaTuner Statistics Server. The settings are intended to provide a way to dynamically enable or disable scanline sync technology based framarate limiting without altering application profiles, however you may use it to toggle traditional framerate limter as well
Now CPU topology info (i.e. each logical CPU mapping to physical CPU package and core) is displayed in system info window
Fixed kernel mode hardware access interface fix for AMD Vega GPUs. HBM temperature, GPU power and GPU voltage are no longer returning bogus values when kernel mode hardware access interface is enabled on AMD Vega series graphics cards
Fixed low-level GPU usage monitoring for AMD Polaris GPU family. Software SMC registers offset is no longer hardcoded, offset detection algorithm is more future proof now. Please take a note that it will not fix zero GPU load issue when "Enable unified GPU usage monitoring" option is enabled. This option implementation is based on low-level DirectX performance counters, which require OS and display driver WDDM versions to match. Current AMD drivers are WDDM 2.5 so this performance counter is only working when you're under WDDM 2.5 OS (Windows October Update). If you're under older OS version, this performance counter won't work unless you downgrade to WDDM 2.4 driver (18.9.3 or older)
Hardcoded voltage/frequency curve clock multiplier implementation has been replaced with heuristic multiplier detection in order to provide unified voltage/frequency curve control implementation for NVIDIA Pascal and newer NVIDIA GPU architectures
Improved realtime voltage/frequency curve editor GUI scaling. Now GUI is scaled property when adjusting skin scaling with open voltage/frequency curve editor window
Improved report window, fan curve editor window, monitoring window and voltage/frequency curve editor scaling for scaling ratios greater than 100%
Now mandatory MSI Afterburner installation option is greyed out and cannot be unchecked during installation
Now 64-bit Visual C++ 2008 ru
Ntimes are also installed by MSI Afterburner installer. 64-bit runtimes are required for proper functionality of bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application
Multilanguage user interface library is DPI aware now. Main window skinned interface is no longer being scaled by OS and no longer looks blurred by default when greater than 100% DPI is selected. Now main skinned window interface can be manually zoomed with skin scaling slider in “User interface” tab, and the properties are automatically scaled by OS according to selected DPI
Added new skin scaling mode for power users. New mode provides better scaling performance at the expense of some scaling image quality loss
Skin scaling implementation is now asynchronous, so increasing skin scaling ratio doesn’t increase GUI update time and doesn’t decrease GUI response time
Skin scaling slider range has been extended from 75%-150% to 75%-200%
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.1
Added NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture support:
Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards
Advanced GPU Boost control for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards. Extended voltage/frequency curve editor on GeForce RTX 20x0 family graphics cards allows you to tune additional piecewise power/frequency floor and temperature/frequency floor curves. Control points on those new curves allow you to control GPU Boost power and thermal throttling algorithms more precisely than traditional power limit and thermal limit sliders
Hardware abstraction layer has been revamped to provide support for multiple independent fans per GPU due to introducing dual fan design on reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards and due to introducing native dual fan control in NVAPI. Both fans of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 can be monitored independently in hardware monitoring module now and can be controlled synchronically in manual mode
Added NVIDIA Scanner technology support
Added AMD Vega 20 GPU architecture support:
Added Overdrive 8 technology support for AMD RADEON VII series graphics cards
Added extended thermal monitoring for RADEON VII series graphics cards. Extended thermal monitoring includes dualchannel GPU temperature monitoring (edge and junction temperatures), memory temperature monitoring and quadchannel VRM temperature monitoring (core, SOC and two memory VRM temperatures)
GPU usage monitoring filtering algorithms are reenabled for AMD ADL based GPU usage monitoring implementation to minimize fluctuations in monitored GPU usage on AMD RADEON VII series graphics cards. Please take a note that filtering algorithms make GPU usage graph more inert and smooth, so you may disable them via configuration file if necessary
Improved hardware monitoring module:
Added thermal offset for CPU temperature monitoring on AMD Ryzen 7 2700X processors
Similar CPU temperatures are now cloned for all cores on AMD CPUs to provide more convenient and unified On-Screen Display layout between Intel and AMD CPUs
“Pagefile usage” graph in hardware monitoring module has been renamed to “Commit charge”
Added group operation notifier to the caption of active hardware monitoring graphs list in “Monitoring” tab in the application properties. The notifier is informing you that you can apply a setting to all or to multiple selected hardware monitoring graphs when you hold group operation key (i.e. <Shift> or <Ctrl>) and hover mouse cursor over the setting that can be applied to multiple hardware monitoring graphs at once (e.g. “Show in On-Screen Display”)
Added “Select by group” and “Select by type” commands to context menu of active hardware monitoring graphs list in “Monitoring” tab in the application properties. New commands allow selecting the graphs of exactly the same type (e.g. CPU1-CPU8 usage graphs on eight core CPU) or the graphs with the same OSD/LCD group name (for example, GPU clock, GPU power, GPU usage and the rest graphs with “GPU” group name). Such commands allow you to show similar items (e.g. all CPU usages) in On-Screen Display with a single click or rename a group for all child graphs in the single pass
Multi group edit mode is automatically selected now for group name edit field when you enable "Override group name" option while holding <Ctrl> key. You may still manually toggle this mode with <Ctrl>+<M> hotkey anytime when editing the group name
On-Screen Display item type (i.e. text, graph or combination of both) is now displayed in “Properties” column of active hardware monitoring graphs list in “Monitoring” tab in the application properties
Added programmable hotkey for clearing monitoring history
Added “Apply” button to application properties window. Now you may iteratively customize monitoring module without closing the properties to see the result on each step. Please take a note that some properties (e.g. application language) cannot be applied until you completely close properties window by design of application
Application properties dialog window is now displayed with topmost style when the properties are activated from detached monitoring window and “Always on top” mode is enabled for it
Now “Mark minimum” and “Mark maximum” commands are available in the context menu of monitoring window even when a fragment of history is not selected. In this case the commands result in setting tracking marker in a global
Extremum position. You may still use <Shift> key and mouse cursor to select a fragment of history then use the context menu to set tracker marker in local extremum position
Now you may press <F11> key in monitoring window to capture print friendly screenshot of hardware monitoring history graphs. The screenshot includes MSI Afterburner watermark by default, you may customize it by replacing overlay.png file located in .Graphics folder. This feature can be useful for hardware reviewers
Now you may hold <Del> key then click unwanted graphs in hardware monitoring history viewer mode to hide them. This feature can be useful before capturing print friendly screenshot, if you want to exclude unnecessary graphs from it
Improved On-Screen Display layout editor:
System reserved variable slots 250-255 are now displayed as system variables in the layout editor
Added embedded graphs support. Embedded graphs can be displayed directly in the text in a separate column, it can be convenient for displaying per-core CPU usages
Added embedded graph width adjustment variable to the “Graph” property node
Added new “Graph placement” property node. You can use it to place each graph on top of text, on bottom or make it embedded in in text column
Added new variables to “Separators” property node. Now you may define independent separators for the graphs located on top of text part, for the text part and for the graphs located on bottom of text part.
Slightly altered interpretation of prolog and epilog separators. Please take a note that prolog separator is no longer automatically appended with new line symbol, so you must specify it manually when necessary and epilog separator is now displayed below the bottom group of graphs
The list of hardware monitoring items in “Add item(s)” dialog window is alphabetically sorted now
Added macroses for embedding any data from monitoring module into OSD text (e.g. prolog). You may use macroses to display anything available in the monitoring module, e.g. %CPU temperature%
Improved On-Screen Display hypertext formatting performance due to more optimal macro replace strategy
Revamped “modern web” layout. New layout is demonstrating new text formatting features including big custom framerate counter, custom embedded background and On-Screed Display header, custom benchmark and system time indicators and embedded CPU and GPU usage graphs
On-Screen Display layouts are saved in monitoring profiles now
Improved HwInfo plugin:
Added UPS load, power, input voltage and charge level data sources to default plugin configuration
Improved voltage/frequency editor:
Voltage/frequency editor window is now available on AMD GPUs. On AMD platform it allows you to edit core frequencies and voltages independently per each P-State:
Similar to NVIDIA GPUs, you may either adjust each point frequency or voltage independently with both mouse and keyboard (<Up> / <Down> or <Ctrl>+<Up> / <Ctrl>+<Down> keys), hold <Shift> key and drag single point to apply similar frequency or voltage offset to all P-states or hold <Alt> key and drag single point to add the same offset to each P-State frequency or voltage offset
You may press <PageUp> / <PageDown> keys to switch between frequency or voltage keyboard input focus for selected P-State
Read only P-States are currently not tracked, which means that you can try to adjust the frequency and voltage for locked states but changes will be ignored when applying the curve
P-States locking functionality is not implemented yet
Now you may press <Tab> / <Shift>+<Tab> keys when a point is selected to switch to the next / previous point. This feature can be useful if you’re fine-tuning the offsets from keyboard
Now you may press <Enter> key when a point is selected to type in desired frequency or voltage offset for it o Now you may press <Shift>+<Enter> keys when a point is selected to type in absolute desired frequency or voltage explicitly and let the editor to calculate the offset automatically
Added undo/redo support:
Now voltage/frequency curve editor is saving up to 1024 last states of the curve during editing and allows you to undo/redo changes with <Ctrl>+<Z> or <Shift>+<Y> / <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<Z> keys
Undo history is discarded when you apply the curve
Number of recorded undo/redo steps is displayed in square brackets in the editor window caption
Slightly increased default voltage range for voltage/frequency curve. Now you may lock voltage to lower values if you’re using voltage/frequency editor to downvolt and reduce power consumption on your NVIDIA GPU. Power users may customize the range further, the voltage and frequency limits are fully adjustable via the configuration file
Now you may press <F5> key in the editor window to reread the curve from hardware. This feature can be useful when adjusting the curve in changing thermal environment
Voltage and frequency axes are dynamically scaled now, so the captions do not overlap when window is too small
Improved hardware control shared memory interface. During the past years, external applications like MSI Remote Server were using this interface for tuning GPU hardware settings remotely from external applications. The improvements are intended to allow connecting external stress testing and automatic overclocking related applications to MSI Afterburner via this interface:
Now voltage/frequency curve on NVIDIA Pascal and newer NVIDIA GPU architectures is accessible via hardware control shared memory interface
New hardware control shared memory interface command allows MSI Afterburner to load hardware settings from external application without immediately applying new settings to GPU
Added notification message, allowing external applications to notify MSI Afterburner about new command written to hardware control shared memory. Without the notification, MSI Afterburner is executing external commands on each hardware polling iteration like before. Please refer to SDK and MACMSharedMemorySample source code to see notification message usage example
Added hardware identification info to GPU entries in hardware control shared memory. Hardware identification info allows external applications to reconcile own enumerated devices with logical GPUs enumerated by MSI Afterburner
Now hardware control shared memory is refreshed on delayed fan speed readback events
New bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application in now included in MSI Afterburner distributive:
MSI Overclocking Scanner is currently supported on NVIDIA GTX 10x0 and NVIDIA RTX 20x0 series graphics cards under 64-bit operating systems only. On such systems you may activate the scanner with dedicated button from the main application window or directly from voltage/frequency curve editor window o MSI Overclocking Scanner is powered by NVIDIA Scanner technology, which is using proprietary algorithms to quickly and reliably test manually overclocked GPU stability or find the maximum stable GPU overclocking in automatic mode with a single click. The scanner is using embedded NVIDIA test load to stress GPU. The scanner provides you two functional modes:
In test mode MSI Overclocking Scanner is stress-testing your manual GPU overclocking settings during approximately 5 minutes. The result is returned as GPU stability confidence level (0% - unstable, 100% - stable)
In scan mode MSI Overclocking Scanner is stress-testing and slowly increasing clocks on voltage/frequency curve points and this way automatically detecting the maximum stable GPU overclocking. The result is returned as modified voltage/frequency curve and average GPU overclocking in MHz

New in MSI Afterburner 4.6.0.13319 beta 9 (Sep 24, 2018)

Added NVIDIA Turing GPU architecture support:
Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards
Advanced GPU Boost control for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards. Extended voltage/frequency curve editor on GeForce RTX 20x0 family graphics cards allows you to tune additional piecewise power/frequency floor and temperature/frequency floor curves. Control points on those new curves allow you to control GPU Boost power and thermal throttling algorithms more precisely than traditional power limit and thermal limit sliders
Hardware abstraction layer has been revamped to provide support for multiple independent fans per GPU due to introducing dual fan design on reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 series graphics cards and due to introducing native dual fan control in NVAPI. Both fans of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 can be monitored independently in hardware monitoring module now and can be controlled synchronically in manual mode
Added NVIDIA Scanner technology support
Improved hardware monitoring module:
Added thermal offset for CPU temperature monitoring on AMD Ryzen 7 2700X processors
“Pagefile usage” graph in hardware monitoring module has been renamed to “Commit charge”
Improved hardware control shared memory interface. During the past years, external applications like MSI Remote Server were using this interface for tuning GPU hardware settings remotely from external applications. The improvements are intended to allow connecting external stress testing and automatic overclocking related applications to MSI Afterburner via this interface:
Now voltage/frequency curve on NVIDIA Pascal and newer NVIDIA GPU architectures is accessible via hardware control shared memory interface
New hardware control shared memory interface command allows MSI Afterburner to load hardware settings from external application without immediately applying new settings to GPU
Added notification message, allowing external applications to notify MSI Afterburner about new command written to hardware control shared memory. Without the notification, MSI Afterburner is executing external commands on each hardware polling iteration like before. Please refer to SDK and MACMSharedMemorySample source code to see notification message usage example
Added hardware identification info to GPU entries in hardware control shared memory. Hardware identification info allows external applications to reconcile own enumerated devices with logical GPUs enumerated by MSI Afterburner
Now hardware control shared memory is refreshed on delayed fan speed readback events
New bundled MSI Overclocking Scanner application in now included in MSI Afterburner distributive:
MSI Overclocking Scanner is currently supported on NVIDIA RTX 20x0 series graphics cards under 64-bit operating systems only. On such systems you may activate the scanner directly from voltage/frequency curve editor window
MSI Overclocking Scanner is powered by NVIDIA Scanner technology, which is using proprietary algorithms to quickly and reliably test manually overclocked GPU stability or find the maximum stable GPU overclocking in automatic mode with a single click. The scanner is using embedded NVIDIA test load to stress GPU. The scanner provides you two functional modes:
§ In test mode MSI Overclocking Scanner is stress-testing your manual GPU overclocking settings during approximately 5 minutes. The result is returned as GPU stability confidence level (0% - unstable, 100% - stable
§ In scan mode MSI Overclocking Scanner is stress-testing and slowly increasing clocks on voltage/frequency curve points and this way automatically detecting the maximum stable GPU overclocking. The result is returned as modified voltage/frequency curve and average GPU overclocking in MHz
Hardcoded voltage/frequency curve clock multiplier implementation has been replaced with heuristic multiplier detection in order to provide unified voltage/frequency curve control implementation for NVIDIA Pascal and newer NVIDIA GPU architectures
Improved realtime voltage/frequency curve editor GUI scaling. Now GUI is scaled property when adjusting skin scaling with open voltage/frequency curve editor window
Added Monolithic Power Systems MP2888A voltage controllers support to provide compatibility with future custom design MSI graphics cards
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.0

New in MSI Afterburner 4.5.0 Build 12819 (Apr 25, 2018)

New in MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 Build 11945 (Nov 6, 2017)

Added control of the core voltage for reference design models: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Xp, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti.
Added support for Tesla Compute Cluster.
The abstract hardware layer was reworked, which allowed the memory temperature sensors to be implemented through direct access to the GPU core voltage (AMD Vega 10 SMC) in addition to the external temperature sensors on the I2C bus.
Added support for AMD Vega 10 family processors.
Added voltage control of Vega core via SMC.
Added graphics monitoring power GPU Vega.
The schedule of monitoring of memory HBM in video cards Vega is added.
Added linear fan control for Vega reference cards (usually a nonlinear percentage display of the fan speed depending on the load, but Vega does not support this mode).
Improved accuracy of displacement calculation and voltage programming on AMD Fiji, Ellesmere cards. The minimum offset is 200 mV.
Fixed memory controller and GPU memory stick in AMD Radeon RX 500 series cards on driver 17.6.1 and newer.
The redesigned voltage control layer facilitated extreme overclocking of MSI cards with Quad Overvoltage technology.
Improved 5-channel temperature monitoring module, supporting up to 20 independent sensors on the video card.
Added support for new sensor control technologies in the MSI GTX1080Ti Lightning Z graphics card.
Improved database format.
Implemented a new algorithm for determining I2C devices, accelerated application launch on devices with several voltage or temperature sensors.
Improved functionality of voltage management by third-party developers with the possibility of advanced calibration and mapping of sensors.
Added support for the AMD Overdrive Next X2 API in the AMD Crimson 17.7.2 driver.
The unofficial overclocking method does not work for the AMD Crimson 17.7.2 driver.
The improved PCI bus scanner provides low-level access to the GPU for a secondary video card in Crossfire.
Fixed a crash when MSI Afterburner was launched on AMD Hawaii.
Fixed bug with incorrect display of chart properties.
Improved voltage / frequency curve editor for NVIDIA cards compatible with GPU Boost 3.0.
The usability and stability of the hardware monitoring module is improved by adding the basic functionality of the monitoring libraries from the original RivaTuner . So, monitoring of frequencies and temperatures of modern processors of Intel and AMD is added.
Added a benchmark tab that uses the hidden engine in RivaTuner Statistics Server.
Added ability to control the view of the OSD with the ability to switch between classic and columnar information display. The built-in editor allows you to customize the output information.
There was an opportunity to display parameters in the OSD in the form of text or graphics, which is useful for visualizing the history.
The original task planner returned from RivaTuner ! Now you can set the minimum and maximum thresholds for any graph, and its achievement will cause some urgent action, including sound notification, color change, launch of any application or system shutdown.
The original extension plug-ins from RivaTuner have returned! Now you can add monitoring charts to third-party modules, or create your own. These plug-ins can use the full set of low-level Afterburner settings. The package includes plugins SMART.dll for demonstration of SMART attributes; PerfCounter.dll for showing the principles of importing performance counters from the OS; AIDA64.dll for displaying the readings of the power sensors from AIDA64; HWInfo.dll for importing data from HWiNFO32 / 64, etc.
Improved profile architecture. Now MSI Afterburner can store the settings of the monitoring module in the profile slot, which allows you to switch between different OSD configurations on the fly using hot keys.
Added support for macros to create unique log file names.
The order of display of properties of monitoring and schedules is changed. Also there was an opportunity of resetting the order of the graphs to the default by the menu command from the right mouse button.
The maximum frame time limit for the graph is reduced to 50 ms (20 fps).
The drag-n-drop function was introduced to create the order of the monitoring schedule.
Improved the functionality of group selection of graphs using the keys <Shift> and <Ctrl>.
The system information window has been improved. Now information about using the attributes 3D API , x64 and UWP is displayed for each running process.
The installer now saves the installation path.
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been updated to version 7.0.0.

New in MSI Afterburner 4.4.0.11878 Beta 18 (Oct 2, 2017)

New in MSI Afterburner 4.4.0.11705 Beta 17 (Sep 28, 2017)

New in MSI Afterburner 4.3.0.9267 (Oct 27, 2016)

Added AMD Ellesmere and Baffin graphics processors families support
Added Overdrive N (Overdrive 7) technology support for AMD Polaris architecture based graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON RX 460, AMD RADEON RX 470 and AMD RADEON RX 480 series cards with on-die SMC voltage controller
Added memory controller usage graph to hardware monitoring module for AMD graphics cards. Currently memory controller usage monitoring is implemented for AMD Ellesmere and Baffin graphics processors families only
Added GPU power draw graph to hardware monitoring module for AMD graphics cards. Currently GPU power draw monitoring is implemented for AMD Ellesmere and Baffin graphics processors families only
Added “Erase autosaved startup settings” option to “AMD compatibility properties” section in “General” tab. Starting from AMD Crimson drivers family, the driver is automatically saving hardware settings (e.g. overclocking or fan control settings) in the registry and apply it at Windows startup. It makes settings of any third party hardware overclocking tool virtually permanent, meaning that applied settings stay in the system even after rebooting or powering down the system. However, such implementation is unsafe and even potentially dangerous, because you're no longer able to undo unsafe overclocking with system reboot or even driver reinstall. To prevent such situations, MSI Afterburner can now optionally erase AMD driver's autosaved startup settings after applying new settings to hardware
Increased default maximum limits for “Core clock”, “Memory clock” and “Memory usage” graphs to improve graphs readability on NVIDIA Pascal series graphics cards
Community-created third party hardware database providing voltage control support on some non-MSI custom design graphics cards is now included in distributive
Added uP1816 voltage regulators support to provide compatibility with future custom design MSI graphics cards
Improved validation and handling of erroneous data reported after TDR or during runtime driver installation on NVIDIA graphics
cards
Improved clock monitoring on GPU Boost 2.0 NVIDIA graphics cards after dynamic uninstallation/reinstallation of display driver during MSI Afterburner runtime
Added detection of runtime driver installation on NVIDIA graphics cards. Now MSI Afterburner is periodically checking the presence of NVIDIA driver and displaying notification message informing you that the connection with GPU is lost when the driver is being dynamically uninstalled during MSI Afterburner runtime
Startup profile is now also affected by “Lock profiles” button, which means that you cannot modify or delete your startup overclocking settings while this button is pressed. This feature can be useful to protect startup overclocking settings from modification while temporarily testing various overclocking scenarios on overclocked system
Added support for unofficial overclocking mode with disabled PowerPlay on PowerPlay7 capable hardware (AMD Tonga and newer graphics processors family)
Added unofficial overclocking support for AMD Polaris architecture based graphics cards
Added ability to use low-level hardware access interface on the systems with AMD graphics cards when legacy VGA BIOS image is not mapped to memory (e.g. in UEFI environment)
Improved compatibility with the systems with both Overdrive 5 and Overdrive 6 API AMD graphics cards installed
Added driver registry key detection for the secondary display adapters in SLI/Crossfire systems. Due to this improvement it is no longer necessary to temporarily disable Crossfire when altering some settings in “!MD compatibility properties” section (e.g. “Extend official overclocking limits” or “Enable ULPS” settings)
Improved hardware polling and application startup time on ULPS-enabled Crossfire systems with AMD Fiji and newer AMD graphics processors
Primary GPU usage is no longer cloned on all secondary GPU usage graphs on Crossfire systems when “Enable unified GPU usage monitoring” is enabled in “!MD compatibility properties”. Please take a note that only the primary GPU load is available on Crossfire systems when this option is enabled
Updated IO driver provides more secure MMIO access interface
Fixed bug causing the maximum value to be invisible on some hardware monitoring graphs under certain conditions (e.g. “Framerate” or “Frametime” graphs After closing 3D application)
Added ability to define numpad keys as hotkeys when in on
Guru3D RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v6.5.0
Added GPU Boost 3.0 technology support for NVIDIA Pascal graphics cards:
Added percent based overvoltage support
Added voltage/frequency curve customization support. You may use traditional core clock slider on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 graphics cards to apply fixed offset to all voltage/frequency curve points as well as use brand new flexible voltage/frequency curve editor window for more precise per-point curve adjustment. The editor window can be activated either with “Voltage/frequency curve editor” button in the main application window or with + keyboard shortcut and it provides you the following features:
You may independently adjust clock frequency offset for each point with mouse cursor or / keys
You may hold key to set anchor and fix clock frequency offset in minimum/maximum voltage point and adjust the offset of any other point with mouse to linearly interpolate the offsets between the anchor and adjustment points
You may hold key while adjusting the offset of any point with mouse to apply the same fixed offset to all points. That’s equal to adjusting the offset with the slider in main application window
You may press + to reset offsets for all points
You may switch between traditional core clock control slider in the main window and voltage/frequency curve editor window to see how they affect each other in realtime
You may press after selecting any point on the curve with mouse cursor to disable GPU dynamic voltage/frequency adjustment and lock the voltage and core clock frequency to a state defined by the target point. This feature allows you to test graphics card stability independently for each voltage/frequency point of the curve using real 3D applications or any stress test of your choice. In addition to stability testing usage scenario, MSI Afterburner allows you to save a curve with locked point setting to a profile, so you may easily switch between dynamic voltage/frequency management and fixed voltage/frequency settings in realtime (e.g. to achieve the maximum performance during benchmarking). Please take a note that fixed voltage and frequency settings do not allow you to disable power and thermal throttling
Added configuration file switch, allowing you to toggle the source for “Power” graph on NVIDIA graphics cards. Normalized total power draw (i.e. normalized value from multiple power sensors installed on the graphics card) is selected by default per NVIDIA recommendation, however you can configure MSI Afterburner to display power draw from GPU sensor only:
Improved representation of performance limits graphs for NVIDIA graphics cards per NVIDIA recommendations - "Voltage limit” and “OV max limit” graphs have been merged into single “Voltage limit” graph
Utilization limit” graph has been renamed to “No load limit” graph
SLI sync” graph is now hidden on the systems with single NVIDIA GPU
Improved representation of performance limits graphs in On-Screen Display or in Logitech keyboard LCD. Now the names or currently triggered performance limits are being displayed in On-Screen Display or in Logitech keyboard LCD instead of previously used binary limits representation form

New in MSI Afterburner 4.3.0 Beta 14 (Oct 24, 2016)

Added AMD Ellesmere and Baffin graphics processors families support
Added Overdrive N (Overdrive 7) technology support for AMD Polaris architecture based graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON RX 460, AMD RADEON RX 470 and AMD RADEON RX 480 series cards with on-die SMC voltage controller
Added memory controller usage graph to hardware monitoring module for AMD graphics cards. Currently memory controller usage monitoring is implemented for AMD Ellesmere and Baffin graphics processors families only
Added GPU power draw graph to hardware monitoring module for AMD graphics cards. Currently GPU power draw monitoring is implemented for AMD Ellesmere and Baffin graphics processors families only
Added “Erase autosaved startup settings” option to “AMD compatibility properties” section in “General” tab. Starting from AMD Crimson drivers family, the driver is automatically saving hardware settings (e.g. overclocking or fan control settings) in the registry and apply it at Windows startup. It makes settings of any third party hardware overclocking tool virtually permanent, meaning that applied settings stay in the system even after rebooting or powering down the system. However, such implementation is unsafe and even potentially dangerous, because you're no longer able to undo unsafe overclocking with system reboot or even driver reinstall. To prevent such situations, MSI Afterburner can now optionally erase AMD driver's autosaved startup settings after applying new settings to hardware
Added GPU Boost 3.0 technology support for NVIDIA Pascal graphics cards:
Added percent based overvoltage support.
Added voltage/frequency curve customization support. You may use traditional core clock slider on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 graphics cards to apply fixed offset to all voltage/frequency curve points as well as use brand new flexible voltage/frequency curve editor window for more precise per-point curve adjustment. The editor window can be activated either with button in the main application window or with + keyboard shortcut and it provides you the following features: You may independently adjust clock frequency offset for each point with mouse cursor or / keys
You may hold key to set anchor and fix clock frequency offset in minimum/maximum voltage point and adjust the offset of any other point with mouse to linearly interpolate the offsets between the anchor and adjustment points
You may hold key while adjusting the offset of any point with mouse to apply the same fixed offset to all points. That’s equal to adjusting the offset with the slider in main application window.
You may press + to reset offsets for all points  You may switch between traditional core clock control slider in the main window and voltage/frequency curve editor window to see how they affect each other in real-time
You may press after selecting any point on the curve with mouse cursor to disable GPU dynamic voltage/frequency adjustment and lock the voltage and core clock frequency to a state defined by the target point. This feature allows you to test graphics card stability independently for each voltage/frequency point of the curve using real 3D applications or any stress test of your choice. In addition to stability testing usage scenario, MSI Afterburner allows you to save a curve with locked point setting to a profile, so you may easily switch between dynamic voltage/frequency management and fixed voltage/frequency settings in realtime (e.g. to achieve the maximum performance during benchmarking). Please take a note that fixed voltage and frequency settings do not allow you to disable power and thermal throttling
Increased default maximum limits for “Core clock”, “Memory clock” and “Memory usage” graphs to improve graphs readability on NVIDIA Pascal series graphics cards
Added configuration file switch, allowing you to toggle the source for “Power” graph on NVIDIA graphics cards. Normalized total power draw (i.e. normalized value from multiple power sensors installed on the graphics card) is selected by default per NVIDIA recommendation, however you can configure MSI Afterburner to display power draw from GPU sensor only
Improved representation of performance limits graphs for NVIDIA graphics cards per NVIDIA recommendations:
“Voltage limit” and “OV max limit” graphs have been merged into single “Voltage limit” graph
“Utilization limit” graph has been renamed to “No load limit” graph
“SLI sync” graph is now hidden on the systems with single NVIDIA GPU
Improved representation of performance limits graphs in On-Screen Display or in Logitech keyboard LCD. Now the names or currently triggered performance limits are being displayed in On-Screen Display or in Logitech keyboard LCD instead of previously used binary limits representation form
Added uP1816 voltage regulators support to provide compatibility with future custom design MSI graphics cards
Improved validation and handling of erroneous data reported after TDR or during runtime driver installation on NVIDIA graphics cards
Improved clock monitoring on GPU Boost 2.0 NVIDIA graphics cards after dynamic uninstallation/reinstallation of display driver during MSI Afterburner runtime
Added detection of runtime driver installation on NVIDIA graphics cards. Now MSI Afterburner is periodically checking the presence of NVIDIA driver and displaying notification message informing you that the connection with GPU is lost when the driver is being dynamically uninstalled during MSI Afterburner runtime
Startup profile is now also affected by “Lock profiles” button, which means that you cannot modify or delete your startup overclocking settings while this button is pressed. This feature can be useful to protect startup overclocking settings from modification while temporarily testing various overclocking scenarios on overclocked system
Added support for unofficial overclocking mode with disabled PowerPlay on PowerPlay7 capable hardware (AMD Tonga and newer graphics processors family)
Added unofficial overclocking support for AMD Polaris architecture based graphics cards
Added ability to use low-level hardware access interface on the systems with AMD graphics cards when legacy VGA BIOS image is not mapped to memory
Improved compatibility with the systems with both Overdrive 5 and Overdrive 6 API AMD graphics cards installed
Fixed bug causing the maximum value to be invisible on some hardware monitoring graphs under certain conditions (e.g. “Framerate” or “Frametime” graphs after closing 3D application)
Added ability to define numpad keys as hotkeys when in on
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v6.5.0

New in MSI Afterburner 4.2.0.7826 (Dec 10, 2015)

Fixed database issue with Device_ID for GeForce GTX 980 Ti Lightning edition
Added AMD Fiji graphics processors family support.
Hardware abstraction layer architecture has been revamped to allow implementation of voltage control via direct access to GPU ondie voltage controllers (e.g. AMD Fiji SMC) in addition to previously supported external voltage controllers connected to GPU via I2C bus. Please take a note that direct access to AMD SMC from multiple simultaneously running hardware monitoring applications can be unsafe and result in collisions, so similar to I2C access synchronization we introduce global namespace synchronization mutex “Access_ATI_SMC” as SMC access synchronization standard. Other developers are strongly suggested to use it during accessing AMD GPU SMC in order to provide collision free hardware monitoring.
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R9 Fury / Nano series cards with on-die SMC voltage controller
Added unofficial overclocking support for PowerPlay7 capable graphics cards (AMD Tonga and newer graphics processors family). Please take a note that unofficial overclocking mode with completely disabled PowerPlay is currently not supported for PowerPlay7 capable hardware.
Added version detection for AMD Radeon Software Crimson edition. Please take a note that new AMD Radeon Software versioningscheme is not backward compatible so now Catalyst version can be reported improperly if you reinstall older versions of Catalyst drivers on top of AMD Radeon Software Crimson edition without cleaning the registry up. Until the issue is addressed inside AMD Radeon Software Crimson edition installer, MSI Afterburner is providing compatibility switch “LegacyDriverDetection” in the configuration file allowing you to use legacy driver version detection mechanism if you’re rolling back to legacy Catalyst drivers after AMD Radeon Software Crimson edition drivers
GPU usage monitoring filtering algorithms, aimed to filter GPU usage monitoring artifacts in AMD ADL API on AMD Sea Islands GPU family are now disabled by default. Filtering algorithms can still be enabled by power users via configuration file if necessary
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI GTX980Ti Lightning series graphics cards with IR3595A+IR3567B voltage regulators
Added memory and VRM temperature monitoring for custom design MSI GTX980Ti Lightning series graphics cards with NCT7511Y thermal sensors
Now SDK includes detailed documentation for third party hardware database format, allowing experienced users to add voltage control support for custom design non-MSI graphics cards
Temperature monitoring for AMD Family 10h – 16h micro architecture CPUs is no longer experimental. Now thermal monitoring on such CPUs is unlocked by default.
Slightly altered VRAM usage monitoring implementation for AMD and Intel graphics cards. Now total resident bytes are being displayed as VRAM usage instead of total committed bytes, and allocated blocks are no longer being rounded to 1MB boundary per block when calculating a total value
Improved skin engine. Added support for altered USF skins obfuscation scheme used in most recent versions of third party overclocking tools.
Added Brazilian Portuguese localization.
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v6.4.1

New in MSI Afterburner 4.1.1.7625 (May 28, 2015)

Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X series graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti series graphics cards
Now core voltage control via NCP4206 is unlocked on reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN series graphics cards when extended MSI voltage control mode is selected
Added new third party voltage control mode. Traditionally we provided voltage control on reference design graphics cards or on custom design MSI graphics cards only. However, rich set of PWM controllers supported by MSI Afterburner core allows implementing voltage control on many third party custom design graphics cards as well. With this version we introduce original concept of user extendable voltage control mode, allowing experienced users to get access to programmable MSI Afterburner core, get access to full range of voltage controllers supported by it, create custom hardware database and program MSI Afterburner to provide voltage control on many third party custom design graphics cards. Third party voltage control mode requires populating and downloading third party hardware database, please visit MSI Afterburner discussion forums to help adding your custom design cards to the database or download the latest database version
Fixed bug causing application to crash when “layered with alpha” skin composition mode is selected, application is minimized to system tray and properties are accessed via the context menu of detached monitoring window
Improved hardware monitoring module:
Added negative temperatures monitoring support for NVIDIA GPUs o Fixed extended CPU family and model detection to address issue with incorrect maximum junction temperature (Tjmax) detection on some Intel CPUs
Now power users can override the maximum junction temperature (Tjmax) via configuration file if necessary
Added temperature monitoring for AMD Family 10h – 16h micro architecture CPUs. Please take a note that this functionality is currently experimental and disabled by default. Power users can unlock AMD CPU temperature monitoring via [CPUHAL] section in the configuration file if necessary
Added correction formulas support. Now you can apply a custom correction formula to any data source in hardware monitoring module. Correction formulas can be useful to apply temperature offsets to custom temperature sensors if necessary (e.g. set formula to “x+20”), display effective memory clock instead of base clock (e.g. set formula to “x*2”), display per-GPU memory usage instead of total memory usage on Crossfire systems (e.g. set formula to “x/2”) and many, many more
Hardware Monitoring Log file format has been upgraded to v1.5 to provide correction formulas support
Added “CPU load” graph to multicore CPUs. The graph is displaying the average CPU load across all CPU cores
Added “CPU temperature” graph to thermal monitoring capable multicore CPUs. The graph is displaying the maximum CPU temperature across all CPU cores
Added connection retry counter to Logitech LCD monitoring module. Now MSI Afterburner stop trying to connect to Logitech LCD after some failed connection attempts instead of trying to connect to it in endless loop. Retry counter implementation is aimed to bypass the problem with GDI resource leak in Logitech LCD API, which could cause application to crash after some period of time when output to LCD is enabled on the system with no Logitech LCD connected to it
Added dynamic output format for min / max limits displayed on the graphs. Now MSI Afterburner uses integer output format for limits if the range between minimum and maximum limits is greater than 1, otherwise it uses floating point output format
Improved skin engine:
Added support for altered USF skins obfuscation scheme used in most recent versions of third party overclocking tools
Drastically reduced load time for obfuscated USF skin files (*.UXF). Now MSI Afterburner open obfuscated skin files roughly 10 times faster than the previous version
Reduced skinned GUI initialization time due to cached access to the skin header
Added support for negative GPU temperature indicators in all skins supplied with application
Multimedia timer resolution is no longer hardcoded to 10ms. The resolution is now adjustable and set to 16ms by default to reduce timer interrupts related CPU load at the cost of losing some smoothness in GUI animation. Power users can override timer resolution via the configuration file if necessary
Updated kernel mode driver provides new IOCTLs for safe access to PCI bus required for temperature monitoring on AMD CPUs

New in MSI Afterburner 4.1.0.7013 (Jan 3, 2015)

Brand new user interface skins:
New skins use improved skin format introduced in the previous version of MSI Afterburner skin compiler, which reduces each compiled skin size by factor of 10 on average. Legacy MSI Afterburner v2 and v3 skins
were also recompiled in new format and included in distributive for those who prefer old-style user interface Improved hardware monitoring module, new robust hardware monitoring features have been ported from original RivaTuner guru3d hardware monitoring module:
Added integrated viewer for native RivaTuner Hardware Monitoring Log (*.HML) files. Now you can view hardware monitoring history stored in HML files either by pressing “View” button in “Monitoring” tab or directly open HML files via Windows explorer
Added custom tracking markers support. Now you can hold key while clicking hardware monitor window to set up to 8 custom tracking markers in desired positions
Now you can customize graph color in layered mode via double clicking color legend box on the graph.
Now tracking markers display current values for all graphs in layered mode instead of active graph only Improved graphs resizing implementation for attached hardware monitor window.
Improved skin browser:
Now “User interface” tab open immediately without waiting for processing of all installed skin files, which can be time consuming if you have a lot of skin files. The list of installed skins is now being populated in separate background thread
Added precaching for skin preview images. Skin files are no longer being accessed when switching between skins in the browser
Improved skin rendering performance for layered skin composition mode with alpha channel
Improved rendering performance for skins using animated indicators (e.g. animated profile save indicator in default MSI Afterburner skin)
Added backbuffering support to skinned windows to simplify implementation of various framebuffer processing related effects (e.g. skin scaling)
Vector indicators are now being rendered via GDI+ to provide improved antialiasing and rendering performance
Added support for obfuscated USF format, which is represented by some unfair competitors as 100% in-house development. Now you can use MSI Afterburner’s built-in skin decompiler to analyze source code of such skin files
Added skins scaling support. The scaling may improves the appearance of some small third party skins on high resolution monitors. Please take a note that upscaling may reduce the performance a bit.
Improved skin cross-compatibility layer:
Extended list of applications supported by skin cross-compatibility layer. Now MSI Afterburner supports USF skins created for any version of third party overclocking tools starting from minimalist oldschool skins from GeForce 200 series overclocking era and ending by obfuscated USF skins used in modern overclocking tools
Added support for 10 profile slots in skin cross-compatibility mode
Now it is possible to open advanced settings window with + keyboard shortcut to provide compatibility with third party skins having no dedicated button for accessing advanced settings window
Now it is possible to open info window with + keyboard shortcut to provide compatibility with third party skins having no dedicated button for accessing info window.
Added configuration file switch allowing power users to invert colors in text mode for Logitech keyboard LCD displays
Added silent installation scenario support
Ukrainian localization has been seriously revamped
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v6.3.0

New in MSI Afterburner 4.0.0.4604 (Sep 4, 2014)

Added MSI R9 280 series voltage control support
Added AMD Tonga graphics processors family support
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R9 285X series graphics cards with NCP81022 voltage regulators
Added official overclocking limits extension support for AMD Tonga graphics processors. Please take a note that unofficial overclocking mode is currently not supported for AMD Tonga graphics processors family
Various parts of hardware monitoring module have been pumped up to improve hardware monitoring usability and flexibility:
o Added layered monitoring graphs rendering mode. Now you may right click source graph in monitoring window, select “Attach” in the context menu then point to destination graph to attach source graph to it and create a group of layered graphs. This feature allows you to render as many layered graphs on the same grid as you wish. The colors of graphs in layered rendering mode can be customized independently of each other so you can easily identify them
Added multi-column monitoring graphs rendering mode. Now you can adjust the number of graph columns in “Active monitoring graphs” section in “Monitoring” tab
Added “Override graph name” option to “Monitoring” tab. Now you can rename the graphs displayed in hardware monitoring window
Monitoring history buffer size is no longer defined by monitoring window width. Now pre-history buffer size is fixed and stores the last 3600 samples (1 hour for 1000ms polling period) for each graph
Improved tray icon monitoring module:
Now you can select either text mode or barchart indicator mode for each value displayed in tray icon. Barchart indicator mode can be extremely useful for visualizing data like GPU / CPU usage
Improved Logitech keyboard LCD monitoring module:
Ported to new Logitech API to provide support for newer Logitech LCD displays
Added support for color LCD display of Logitech G19/G19s keyboards
Added graph mode support for color LCD display of Logitech G19/G19s keyboards. Now in addition to previously available text mode you can optionally select graph mode and see exact copy of MSI Afterburner’s monitoring graphs displayed directly inside the keyboard LCD. You can also press “Menu” soft button on your Logitech G19/G19S keyboard to toggle between text and graph modes dynamically in realtime
Added acceleration support to LCD scrolling implementation
Added larger 8x12, 10x12, 12x12 and 12x16 fonts support for text mode
Added “Regional settings” section to “User Interface” tab:
Temperature format settings allow you to switch between Celsius and Fahrenheit format for monitored temperatures. Please take a note that this setting affects temperature readouts only. Hardware related temperature adjustments (e.g. fan speed to temperature mapping curve for all cards or temperature target adjustment for NVIDIA Kepler series) are always being displayed and adjusted in Celsius for maximum unification, safety and compatibility
12 hours / 24 hours time format settings allow you to configure time format for On-Screen Display and hardware monitoring window
Added “Enable low-level IO driver” option to the “Compatibility properties” section in “General” tab
Added SLI sync performance limit graph for release 340 and newer NVIDIA drivers
Display device enumeration implementation has been modified slightly to allow monitoring Intel iGPUs when low-level IO driver is not enabled
Improved handshaking algorithm reduces the risk of seeing multiple running instances of child processes (e.g. RTSS)
Optimized hardware polling for NVIDIA graphics cards
Optimized hardware polling for multi-GPU systems
Added SVI2 voltage control support via AMD ADL SDK to provide compatibility with future graphics cards
Added automatic prerecording settings to “Videocapture” tab. When you enable automatic mode prerecording session is being started automatically on each 3D application startup. Please take a note that in this case you can still use video prerecord hotkey to stop then manually restart prerecording session if necessary
Drastically improved skin engine:
Improved skin compiler gives more detailed error messages when skin compilation fail due to error in some source image file
Source image file format is no longer limited to 24-bit BMP files only. Now skin compiler supports all possible bit depths for BMP format and fully supports PNG format with alpha channel
Added built-in bitmap effect for extracting alpha-channel from PNG image files
Skin format has been upgraded to v1.3. New format supports alpha channel based transparency for skinned window, allowing skin designers to define semi-transparent skin areas, apply antialiasing to the skin window edges and so on
Added new skinned window composition modes support and “Skin composition mode” settings to “User interface tab”. New settings allows you to use one of the following modes:
Traditional mode – suits best for backward compatibility with existing skins and performance testing
Layered mode with colorkey - provides much faster rendering of skins with non-rectangular window shape and additionally allows you to adjust transparency of skinned window
Layered mode with alpha – provides per-pixel alpha channel support and advanced visual effects for compatible skins and also allows you to adjust transparency of skinned window
Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.7 to document these changes
Improved implementation of rollback to default skin
Full skins cross-compatibility with other overclocking applications based on RivaTuner engine. Special GUI transformation layer allows you to use the skins designed for third party RivaTuner based overclocking applications and makes the process of migration to MSI Afterburner from such overclocking tools much more comfortable for you. You can keep the look and feel of your preferred overclocking application and at the same time enjoy extended MSI Afterburner’s features including full range of supported graphics cards, industry leading powerful and robust monitoring module, flexible video recording features and many more
RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v6.2.0

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.1.2390 (Jun 10, 2014)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 (May 21, 2014)

Ported to new VC++ compiler, new core and skin engine libraries with better extendibility
Added Bonaire, Curacao and Hawaii graphics processors family support
Added core and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R9 290/290X series graphics cards with IR3567B voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R7 260/260X series graphics cards with NCP81022 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 7790 series graphics cards with NCP81022 voltage regulators
Added NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 technology support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan graphics cards:
Added slider for temperature limit adjustment
Added option for linked power limit and temperature limit adjustment
Added option for temperature limit prioritizing
Added maximum voltage adjustment
Improved NVAPI access layer architecture with better extendibility
Improved AMD ADL access layer with Overdrive 6 support to provide compatibility with future AMD GPUs
Added NCP4206 voltage regulators support to provide compatibility with future custom design MSI graphics cards
Improved voltage control layer architecture provides better compatibility with automatic voltage control on NCP4206 voltage regulators
Improved hardware monitoring module architecture with better extendibility
Added voltage control mode selection option to the "Compatibility properties" section in "General" tab. Now you can toggle between reference design, standard MSI and extended MSI voltage control modes
Added "boost edition" / "GHz edition" GPU type selection option for reference design AMD RADEON 7970 and AMD RADEON 7950 based graphics cards to "AMD compatibility properties" section in "General" tab
Added GPU usage averaging algorithm for Overdrive 6 capable AMD GPUs. Now displayed GPU usage is being averaged by sliding window to smooth GPU usage artifacts occurring due to bug in AMD ADL API on AMD Sea Islands GPU family
Added optional unified GPU usage monitoring path via D3DKMT performance counters. You may tick "Enable unified GPU usage monitoring" option in "AMD compatibilities properties" in "General" tab as a workaround to replace native AMD GPU usage monitoring if it is working improperly (e.g. broken GPU usage monitoring in AMD ADL API for AMD Sea Islands GPU family)
voltage regulators

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 19 (Mar 27, 2014)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 18 (Jan 3, 2014)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 17 (Nov 14, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 16 (Oct 25, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 15 (Sep 16, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 14 (Aug 17, 2013)

Add MSI new card supported
Added NCP4206 voltage regulators support to provide compatibility with future custom design MSI graphics cards
Improved voltage control layer architecture provides better compatibility with automatic voltage control on NCP4206 voltage
regulators
RivaTuner Statistics Server updated to version 5.3.0 with the following improvements:
Added external encoding plugin modules support. Plugin modules architecture provides an easy way to implement different hardware accelerated video encoders in RivaTuner Statistics Server.
Added benchmark mode for external encoding plugin modules. Benchmark mode allows you to verify if hardware encoder is configured and working properly as well as estimate expected hardware encoding performance.
Added external QSV.DLL encoding plugin. The plugin provides you high-performance hardware accelerated H.264 encoding on Intel QuickSync Video capable platforms. Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder is able to compress 1080p video at 60 FPS with no major CPU performance hit. Hardware accelerated Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder was introduced special to compete with NVIDIA’s ShadowPlay hardware accelerated H.264 encoder. Free hardware accelerated H.264 video capture and encoding is no longer an exclusive selling point of NVIDIA Kepler GPU family, now the same functionality is available on much wider range of hardware platforms on both AMD and NVIDIA GPU based graphics cards absolutely for free!
Tweaked encoder queue depth. The queue depth is no longer hardcoded to 32 frames, now it is equal to recording framerate
Decreased server startup time on OS versions with no any service pack version installed
Improved function offsets cache validation algorithm in hooking system
Added proxy Direct3D library protection system. Now RivaTuner Statistics Server forcibly disables application hooking and blocks OSD, screen capture and video recording functionality if application is running via the proxy Direct3D runtime library (various game mods based on hacked D3D DLLs). Compatibility with most of such applications can still be improved by enabling custom Direct3D runtime libraries support in the application profile

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 12 (Aug 6, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 11 (Jul 16, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 10 (May 22, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 9 (Apr 2, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 8 (Apr 2, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 7 (Mar 14, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 6 (Mar 1, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 5 (Feb 25, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.3.1 (Jan 23, 2013)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.3.0 (Nov 20, 2012)

Added new graphics cards support.
Fixed rounding error in VID generation for offset voltage control mode for CHL8318 voltage generators
Now it is possible tstart MSI Afterburner in limited functionality mode on the systems with nsupported AMD or NVIDIA graphics card. This allows you tuse hardware independent features like high-performance Predator™ videcapture module on any PC, even if it is using integrated Intel graphics
Added frametime graph thardware monitoring module. The graph is displaying the maximum frame time on each sampling period and it is useful for detecting microstutters, which are invisible on averaged framerate graph.
All documentation is now provided in PDF format
Added unified videomemory usage monitoring implementation for Windows 8
Removed obsolete GPU type selection settings for some AMD graphics cards
Removed obsolete shader clock monitoring for NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards
Improved hardware database format, now custom design MSI graphics cards are calibrated in separate OEM file tminimize the risk of introducing typos in reference design cards definitions when updating the database
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded tversion 4.4.0. New version gives you the following major improvements in Predator videcapture module:
Improved RTV1 compression algorithm. New compression approach combines DXTC, RLE and uncompressed data saving algorithms and allows you tincrease image quality at the cost of decreasing compression ratio, while keeping extremely fast compression performance. Please take a note that the previous RTV1 compression implementation is equal tthe lowest possible 25% image quality/compression ratibalance in new implementation
Added 64-bit version of RivaTuner VideCodec. Now RTV1 videos are playable and editable in 64-bit applications (e.g. 64-bit Sony Vegas PRor Adobe Premiere PRCS6)
Huffman tables are nlonger omitted by MJPG encoder timprove compatibility with applications using limited MJPG decoders (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO)
Now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RivaTuner VideCodec can optionally decode MJPG videos. Third party MJPG codec installation is nlonger required tplay or edit MJPG videos with omitted Huffman tables in some applications with limited MJPG decoding support (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO). MJPG decoder can be enabled in videcapture compatibility properties
Multisource audirecording. Now it is possible trecord audifrom twindependent audisources (e.g. game audiand microphone sound) in twindependent auditracks then mix them later in videediting application (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO) or optionally mix multiple tracks in realtime during capture
Now it is possible tdownmix multichannel auditsterein stererip and steremix modes. Previously available stererip mode simply rips front left and right audichannels from multichannel audi******, whilst new steremix mode merges audifrom front left, right, center and surround channels
WASAPI audipackets with timestamp error are nlonger included intoutput audi******
External VFW codecs support. Now in addition tbuilt-in uncompressed, RTV1 and MJPG encoders it is alspossible tencode videusing external VFW codecs installed in the system. It is recommended tdownload, install and use Lagarith Lossless Codec for lossless videcapturing or x264vfw codec for the maximum compression ratio, MSI Afterburner was developed tprovide the best compatibility with these codecs
Vide****** synchronization is now based on inserting NULL frames instead of indexing existing frames
Frame dropping implementation has been improved tprovide compatibility with external VFW codecs using temporal compression and deltaframes
Now output videdimensions are always cropped tbe multiples of 2 tprovide compatibility with external VFW codecs
Now framerate is calculated on each frame with sliding 1000ms window approach instead of calculating it once per second
Improved rendering pipeline flushing implementation for Direct3D9 applications provides more stable framerate when capturing videos with VSync enabled
New dynamic Direct3D rendering pipeline flushing approach can decrease videocapture related performance hit when capturing videos in Direct3D applications with high rendering framerates
Added On-Screen Display support for Direct3D 10 applications in Windows 8
Added German localization
Updated profiles list

New in MSI Afterburner 2.2.5 (Oct 31, 2012)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.2.4 (Sep 18, 2012)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.2.3 (Jul 24, 2012)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.2.2 (Jun 20, 2012)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.2.1 (May 14, 2012)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.2.0 (Apr 20, 2012)

Added NVIDIA Kepler graphics processors family support
Added GPU power consumption monitoring for NVIDIA Kepler series graphics cards
Added core clock offset, memory clock offset and voltage offset support for dynamic overclocking on NVIDIA Kepler series graphic cards
Dynamic clock frequency and voltage monitoring is now performed via new NVIDIA Kepler compatible API on branch 295 and newer NVIDIA display drivers
Shader clock control is no longer supported via default MSI Afterburner skin, the skin has been redesigned to provide convenient access to modern power control technologies (AMD PowerTune and NVIDIA GPU Boost power target) instead of outdated independent shader clock control technology. Old graphics cards owners may still get access to independent shader clock control via alternate legacy skin, included in MSI Afterburner distributive
Added AMD Tahiti, Verde and Pitcairn graphics processors family support
Added uP1637 voltage regulators support
Added core and memory voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 7970 and AMD RADEON 7950 graphics cards with CHL8228 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R7970 Lightning series graphics cards with CHL8228+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added memory and VRM temperature monitoring for custom design MSI R7970 Lightning series graphics cards with NCT7718W thermal sensors
Added core and memory voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 7870 graphics cards with CHL8228 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R7870 Hawk series graphics cards with CHL8228+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added memory and VRM temperature monitoring for custom design MSI R7870 Hawk series graphics cards with NCT7718W thermal sensors
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R7850 Power Edition series graphics cards with uP1637+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 7770 graphics cards with L6788A voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R7770 Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6266+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for custom design MSI R7750 series graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R7750 Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6204+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R6930 Twin Frozr III Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6266+uP6262 voltage regulators
Now MSI Afterburner displays target VID instead of real voltage sensor reading on "GPU voltage" graph on graphics cards equipped with CHL8228 voltage regulators. These changes are implemented to avoid confusing the beginners and prevent the hysteria about voltage drop on AMD RADEON 7970 series graphic cards spreading across different discussion forums. Experienced users, understanding the difference between target and real voltages, may still unlock the previous real voltage monitoring mode via editing the hardware profiles
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 cores series graphics cards
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N560GTX-448 Twin Frozr III Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6990 series graphics cards with VT1556 voltage regulators
Added voltage control for custom design MSI R6790 series graphics cards with CHL8214 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for custom design MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6266+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for custom design MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II series graphics cards with CHL8214 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N580GTX Lightning series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added memory and VRM temperature monitoring for custom design MSI N580GTX Lightning series graphics cards with NCT7718W thermal sensors
Added memory and VRM temperature monitoring for custom design MSI R6970 Lightning series graphics cards with NCT7718W thermal sensors
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N570GTX Twin Frozr III Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N560GTX-Ti Hawk series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added CHL8225 and CHL8318 voltage regulators support to provide compatibility with future MSI graphics cards
Added core voltage control for alternate revision of reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 series graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 V2 series graphics cards
Improved overclocking profiles format provides compatibility with NVIDIA Kepler series graphics cards. Please take a note that existing overclocking profiles (startup overclocking profile and profile slots) will be ignored and must be recreated in new version
Improved compatibility with some smart UPS models, MSI Afterburner task is no longer being terminated by Windows task scheduler when the PC is entering suspended mode
Added new compatibility option to "General" tab, allowing you to select GPU type on some graphics card models using different GPU types (e.g. low-leakage and high-leakage Cayman GPUs on RADEON 6900 series graphics cards). The option affects default reference GPU voltage and 3D voltage control path
Now MSI Afterburner's startup daemon routine precaches VRM I2C registers state at the first Windows startup. Precached VRM state is being used to detect default voltage instead of hardcoding default voltages into the database. Please take a note that you may forcibly perform precaching later with command line switch or disable the precaching at all via configuration file if necessary and force MSI Afterburner to use the previous hardcoded database based default voltage detection
Fixed sub-zero temperatures reading on certain custom design MSI graphics cards with LM96163 and NCT7718W dedicated thermal sensors
Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) architecture has been improved to provide compatibility with NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards series
Now multi-GPU overclocking and fan control settings synchronization is performed at HAL level instead of display driver wrapper level to improve HAL architecture extendibility and provide compatibility with NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards series
Added new "Force fan speed update on each period" option to the "Fan" tab. New option may improve compatibility of software automatic fan speed control mode with some bugged display drivers, overriding manually programmed fan speed under certain conditions
Shared control memory format has been upgraded to v2.0. New format provides power limit adjustment support and forward compatibility with NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards series
Now it is possible to override group names for values displayed in the On-Screen Display or in Logitech keyboard LCD display
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.3.3. New version gives you the following improvements:
Added audio capture support to video capture engine. The engine supports stereo audio capture via DirectSound under Windows XP and both multichannel or downmixed stereo capture via WASAPI under Windows Vista and newer operating systems
Primary desktop video capture support for Windows XP and newer operating systems. Please take a note that desktop video capture is not supported under Windows Vista and newer OS with Aero Glass interface enabled, so Aero Glass is being automatically disabled by the server while capturing a video from desktop. Please take a note that both desktop video capture support and forcible Aero Glass interface toggling can be disabled via the configuration files if necessary
Improved OpenGL On-Screen Display coordinates calculation for framebuffer coordinate space mode
Added custom raster 3D fonts support to On-Screen Display in addition to the previously available vector 2D / 3D fonts. On-Screen Display 3D mode rendering mode switch has been replaced with new vector 2D / vector 3D / raster 3D rendering modes tri-switch
Now On-Screen Display coordinates are specified in pixels instead of zoomed units
Now it is possible to use drag-and-drop in On-Screen Display preview window to adjust On-Screen Display position
Now On-Screen Display supports tabulation symbols for better appearance in conjunction with new variable width custom fonts
Improved desktop windows notification mechanism for faster server startup and shutdown
Windows Sidebar is now captured properly on desktop screenshots
Updated system profile template mapping rules for application profiles
Improved bitrate calculation in AVI file headers
Modified screen/videocapture progress indicator appearance
Fixed bug causing multiple used OSD slots to overwrite each other instead of merging the slots correctly
Added screencapture and videocapture support for Direct3D10 and Direct3D11 applications using framebuffers with 10-bit RGB components (e.g. Dirt 3) o Added screencapture and videocapture support for Direct3D10 and Direct3D11 applications using BGR framebuffers (e.g. F.3.A.R.) o Improved video frames timestamping approach may improve smoothness of videos captured on low framerates
Fixed vertex buffer overflow issue causing improper On-Screen Display rendering or crashing in Direct3D10 / Direct3D11 applications when too many items are selected to be displayed in On-Screen Display
Improved RTV1 codec provides better compression ratio (significantly better under certain conditions) without affecting the image quality and encoding performance
Added alternate RTV1 compression mode providing 1.5x - 2x better realtime compression performance at the cost of some minor image quality loss. Video quality slider is now unlocked for RTV1 format, 100% quality selects original compression mode whilst any other value selects new high performance compression mode
Now MSI Afterburner displays captured video file time, size, per-frame compression ratio and time in the On-Screen Display next to the video capture progress indicator when "Show own statistics" option is enabled in the server's properties
Added new profile setting "Enable compatibility with modified Direct3D runtime libraries" allowing MSI On-Screen Display Server to detect runtime function offsets dynamically on each 3D application startup. This provides On-Screen Display functionality support in applications using modified Direct3D runtime libraries (e.g. FXAA injection Direct3D runtimes)
Added new profile settings allowing you to limit the framerate during gaming. Limiting the framerate during gaming can help to reduce the power consumption as well as it can improve gaming experience due to removing unwanted microstutteing effect caused by framerate fluctuations
Now video capture clients can limit the framerate during video capture. Limiting the framerate during videocapture can improve resulting video smoothness
Added gamma corrected video capture support
Added Vector 3D On-Screen Display rendering mode support for OpenGL applications
Added Raster 3D On-Screen Display rendering mode support for OpenGL applications using ARB shaders (e.g. ID Software's Rage)
Added workaround for AMD Direct3D driver issues causing OSD to be invisible in Direct3D8 and Direct3D9 applications when using Raster 3D On-Screen Display rendering mode
Added workaround for AMD OpenGL driver PBO issues causing the driver to crash or perform abnormally slow during videocapture o Added Direct3D9Ex support (DOTA 2 and Darkness 2 demo)
Improved desktop windows notification mechanism eliminates unwanted beeps occurring on some systems during the server startup / shutdown
Added video capture compatibility setting allowing cropping output video dimensions to make them multiples of 16 to improve compatibility with some third party MJPG decoders
Improved tabbed text formatting provides better compatibility with custom On-Screen Display group names
Dedicated 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 frame downsampling routines have been replaced with unified arbitrary downsampling routine. Now MSI Afterburner provides arbitrary frame downsampling functionality and allows selecting 360p, 480p, 720p, 900p, 1080p frame sizes for both 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios. Please take a note that arbitrary frame sizes list is user extendable so you may add your own custom frame sizes to the configuration file if necessary
Now multithreaded video capture optimization is forcibly disabled by default on single core CPUs
Updated profiles list
Screen and video capture no longer stop working properly after selecting a drive root as a destination folder and restarting the application
Now SDK includes new sample code, demonstrating On-Screen Display usage from any third party application. The sample is displaying CPU usage in On-Screen Display and provides third party developers helper object for RivaTuner-styled grouped OSD text formatting
MSI Afterburner is no longer using native AMD ADL SDK GPU indices. Now it always sorts GPUs by PCI location to ensure that GPU indices stay the same in the system regardless of operating system, display driver version and GPU display outputs connection
Added driver-level fan tachometer monitoring fallback for AMD graphics cards via AMD ADL SDK
PowerTune settings are now being forcibly reapplied after changing the clocks via unofficial overclocking path to bypass bug in AMD driver causing PowerTune settings to be reset to defaults during programming PowerPlay table
Unofficial overclocking is now ignored for inactive ULPS enabled AMD graphics cards to prevent system crashing. Please take a note that you still need to disable ULPS to control all graphics cards in unofficial overclocking mode
Added unofficial overclocking support for AMD graphics cards unattached to Windows desktop
Now unofficial overclocking can be enabled without typing in the EULA into the configuration file. In this case the EULA is displayed and you're forced to accept it during MSI Afterburner startup
Added power user oriented command line switches allowing to extend Overdrive clock limits on AMD graphics cards attached to Windows desktop
ATIPDLXX.DLL is now redistributed with MSI Afterburner to address issues with unofficial overclocking under Catalyst 12.2 and newer AMD drivers
Improved Catalyst version detection for AMD graphics cards unattached to Windows desktop
Improved GPU type definition format in hardware database to fix ambiguous GPU type selection on some custom design MSI graphics cards (e.g. MSI R5870 Lightning series)
Now MSI Afterburner's startup daemon routine precaches graphics card state at the first Windows startup. Precached state is being used to improve default clocks detection and clock sliders calibration in some cases when display driver provides no trustworthy defaults detection mechanism (e.g. on AMD graphics cards in unofficial overclocking mode)
Added unified vendor independent videomemory usage monitoring layer for graphics cards, having no generic videomemory monitoring interfaces implementation in display drivers. Unified videomemory usage monitoring layer is based upon RivaTuner's VidMem plugin technology under Windows XP and original concepts of accessing Direct3D kernel mode thunk statistics under Windows Vista and Windows 7, introduced by Mark Russinovich in ProcessExplorer 15. By default unified videomemory usage monitoring path is enabled as primary path on AMD graphics cards and as a fallback path on NVIDIA graphics cards when generic NVAPI videomemory usage monitoring is not available (e.g. on NVIDIA graphics cards unattached to Windows desktop, such as dedicated PhysX or other GPGPU graphics cards). Power users may redefine unified and generic videomemory monitoring paths usage behaviors for both AMD and NVIDIA hardware abstraction layers via the configuration file
Changed current value and time labels rendering Z-order in hardware monitoring graphs renderer
Improved active monitoring graphs list control in "Monitoring" tab reduces list flickering when hovering mouse cursor over it
ReadMe file is now provided in RTF format instead of plain text format
Now beta versions display notification messages informing you that it is about to expire soon in one week or less before the end of trial period
Added update checking system
Added RivaTuner-styled command line interface providing direct GPU and I2C device registers access. Logical AND, OR and XOR operations are supported in addition to regular read and write operations. Now MSI Afterburner can be used by vendors for pre-production custom VRM testing and calibration
Added new compatibility option allowing disabling low-level access to hardware. New option replaces more complex RTCore.cfg renaming related workaround for BFBC2 Punkbuster's bug
Kernel mode RTCore driver has been upgraded to v1.6. New driver introduces RivaTuner-styled protected MMIO IOCTLs and removes outdated IOCTLs dedicated for some old and currently abandoned RTCore technology based applications (HIS iTurbo and RMClock)
Added new compatibility option allowing using protected kernel mode low-level access to hardware instead of user mode one. This option can also be used to bypass Punkbuster related stability issues
Now MSI Afterburner restores default hardware automatic fan control mode when logging off from Windows · Now MSI Afterburner starts significantly faster than before due to optimized I2C devices scanning, cached database access and optimized GPU context switching in profile load routine
Fixed RTV1 codec installation issue on 64-bit systems
Now power users may unlock additional hidden video capture formats via the configuration file
Now screenshot and video capture quality can be adjusted with precise 1% steps instead of 5% steps in the previous version
Now video capture framerate can be adjusted in [1 FPS; 100 FPS] range with precise 1 FPS steps instead of [25 FPS; 100 FPS] range and 5 FPS steps in the previous version
Added "Single tray icon mode" option to "User interface" tab. When single tray icon mode is enabled, the primary application tray icon is being replaced with hardware monitoring tray icon(s) if monitoring in system tray is enabled and MSI On-Screen Display server's icon is not being displayed in tray when the server is loaded. Please take a note that MSI On-Screen Display server's properties are still accessible via "More" button in "OSD" tab
Now shared control memory reinitialization is initiated by delayed fan speed readback mechanism
Now MSI Afterburner can restart itself automatically instead of displaying restart requirement notification after changing some global compatibility options, e.g. unlocking voltage control or disabling low-level hardware access interface
Now DirectX web setup is integrated into the installer
Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.5 to document new indicator types support
Now new user interface language selection into MSI Afterburner GUI also results in selecting the same user interface language into MSI On-Screen Display Server
Updated Korean localization
Added Simplified Chinese localization
Added Indonesian localization
Added Japanese localization
Added German localization
Added Polish localization
Added multilanguage installer

New in MSI Afterburner 2.1.0 (Feb 25, 2011)

Added AMD Barts and Cayman graphics processors family support
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6970 graphics cards with CHL8228 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6970 graphics cards with VT1556 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6950 graphics cards with CHL8214 voltage regulators. Please take a note that voltage control is not supported on AMD RADEON 6950 graphics cards flashed with AMD 6970 BIOS
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6950 graphics cards with VT1556 voltage regulators. Please take a note that voltage control is not supported on AMD RADEON 6950 graphics cards flashed with AMD 6970 BIOS
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6870 graphics cards with CHL8214 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON 6850 graphics cards with CHL8214 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 series graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 series graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti series graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti series graphics cards
Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SE series graphics cards
Added delayed fan speed readback mechanism to improve compatibility with fan control on GeForce GTX 580 series
Added low-level fan tachometer monitoring for RV7xx and newer AMD graphics cards using on-die GPU tachometer
Fixed low-level memory clock monitoring for some mid-range AMD RADEON 5xxx series graphics cards using QDR control related power saving technologies
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N465GTX Twin Frozr II Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N450GTS Cyclone Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for custom design MSI N450GT DDR5 series with uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core and memory voltage control for custom design MSI N430GT and N420GT series with uP6262 voltage regulators
Fixed typo in hardware database causing regular MSI N470GTX and MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II graphics cards to be detected as MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II Power Edition series and causing voltage control to be locked
Added I2C bus index filtering in uP6262 voltage regulators detection code to prevent voltage regulator detection conflicts with DDC on the systems with some specific monitor models. The conflicts resulted in displaying fake +10/+20/+30 voltages on MSI GeForce N460GTX Hawk series
Added power user oriented configuration file switch for adjusting retry counter for external I2C voltage regulators detection. Retry counter is set to 3 by default
Fixed issue in the context help system causing it to display wrong floating tooltips when hovering cursor over the controls under certain conditions
Added ability to assign a hotkey for toggling the On-Screen Display Server blocking. This hotkey is aimed to provide a simple way for diagnosing the server related compatibility issues
Changed default fan speed curve for user defined software automatic fan speed mode
Now MSI Afterburner uses previously undocumented power user oriented DirectInput based hotkey handler. New hotkey handling mechanism drastically reduces hotkey response time in applications heavily loading CPU. Please take a note that new sophisticated hotkeys handling can cause some system security applications (e.g. KIS proactive defense module) to warn you about possible keylogging threat
Fixed issue in hotkey handler causing it to detect false keystrokes under certain conditions
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.0.1. New version gives you the following improvements:
educed On-Screen Display rendering related CPU performance hit due to more effective geometry batching in On-Screen Display 3D rendering mode codepath
Now MSI On-Screen Display server supports RivaTuner's user extendable localization system
Screenshot compression library SaveImage.dll has been replaced with more progressive SaveMedia.dll library providing unified screenshot and video encoding engine
JPEG screenshot quality settings are no longer power user oriented and can be adjusted directly from the client application GUI
Screen capture implementation is now multithreaded to minimize the impact on the game performance when saving screenshots on the systems with multicore CPUs
Text indication of screen capture events in the On-Screen Display has been replaced with graphics progress indicator
Fixed issues causing the On-Screen Display to be rendered in wrong colors in 3D mode in some multitextured Direct3D9 applications (e.g. several bumpmapping related samples from DirectX 9 SDK)
Updated profiles list
Added high performance realtime in-game video capture support by means of built-in video capture engine of new MSI On-Screen Display server. You no longer need to waste your money on purchasing an additional video capture application, now MSI Afterburner is providing such functionality to everyone and absolutely for free! The key features of video capture engine are:
ealtime video capture support for any Direct3D8, Direct3D9, Direct3D10, Direct3D11 and OpenGL applications
Queued frame capture algorithms are aimed to minimize the graphics pipeline stalling caused by transferring pixel data from GPU to CPU and keep high and smooth in-game framerate while video capture is in progress
Multiple video capture formats: uncompressed video capture for the systems with high performance disk I/O subsystems, two different compression modes for the systems with both mid-range and high performance multicore CPUs
Multithreaded SIMD optimized encoders are aimed to provide the maximum compression performance on modern multicore CPUs with SSE2 instructions support
Various options allowing you to tweak video capture performance on your system: customizable target video framerate, customizable target video quality, controllable multithreaded optimization and various frame downsampling modes
Audio stream capture and additional video capture related enhancements are coming in future versions
Low screen capture events are also indicated by notification messages in the hardware monitoring window
Added option allowing hiding On-Screen Display on captured screenshots and videos
Reduced hardware polling time on multi-GPU systems due to cached GPU context switching in hardware monitoring module
Improved hardware monitoring shared memory layout v2.0 introduces additional data source identification related fields and new GPU descriptors array. Third party developers may refer to updated sample code included in the SDK
Added new control shared memory interface for future MSI software products integration with MSI Afterburner. New shared memory interface allows third party applications to program graphics card clock freqnecies, voltages and fans via MSI Afterburner. Such shared memory interface allows developing a lot of useful external applications, for example smartphone overclocking client applications connected to the PC server and remotely controlling the hardware via MSI Afterburner and so on. The SDK included in MSI Afterburner distributive contains open source sample demonstrating the access to new control shared memory from a third party application
All synchronization mutexes have been moved from local to global namespace
Now Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries are included in distributive and installed with software
Hardware database is now configured to force fan duty cycle monitoring to be performed less efficient AMD ADL SDK path on AMD RADEON 4870 X2 and HD 5970 series graphics cards
Changed way of unlocking unofficial overclocking on AMD graphics cards
Added alternate unofficial overclocking path allowing keeping PowerPlay active on some modern ASIC families during overclocking
Fan control settings are now being forcibly reapplied after changing the clocks via unofficial overclocking path to bypass bug in AMD driver causing the fan control settings to be reset to defaults during programming PowerPlay table
Fixed issue in uP6266 voltage control codepath causing setting wrong fixed 0.920V voltage instead of desired one when "Force constant voltage" option is enabled
Localization reference guide documentation has been updated to v1.2
Various typo fixes in different language packs

New in MSI Afterburner 2.1.0 Beta 4 (Nov 13, 2010)

New in MSI Afterburner 2.0.0 (Nov 12, 2010)

Voltage control layer has been seriously revamped to give additional freedom to extreme overclockers with new custom design MSI graphics cards. Now MSI Afterburner is able to control up to 3 voltages on custom design MSI Fermi and other future custom design MSI graphics cards. New adjustable voltages include memory voltage and special multi-purpose auxiliary voltage feeding either memory bus (also known as VDDCI on AMD graphics cards) or PCIE bus and crystal (PEXVDD on NVIDIA graphics cards)
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N480GTX Lighning series graphics cards with uP6225+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N470GTX Twin Frozr II OV3 series graphics cards with uP6218+uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N460GTX Hawk series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
Added core voltage control for custom design MSI N460GTX Cyclone series graphics cards
Added auxiliary VDDCI voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON HD 5870 series graphics cards
Added fan tachometer monitoring for NVIDIA graphics cards. Please take a note that not all graphics cards are tachometer reading capable. So depending on graphics card and cooling system fan tachometer monitoring can be unavailable
Optimized NVIDIA driver-level clock frequency monitoring codepath
Minimum clock limits for all graphics cards have been reduced from 75% to 50%
Dynamic overclocking, voltage and fan speed limits. MSI Afterburner no longer uses static slider limits calibration and adjusts the limits dynamically when some external factors affect it (e.g. Overdrive clock limits on AMD cards or VGA BIOS fan speed and voltage limits on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 cards)
New temperature hysteresis settings for software automatic fan control mode gives you additional way to improve cooling system thermal and acoustic parameters
Now fan speed limits (i.e. minimum and maximum fan speeds accepted by VGA BIOS and display driver) are displayed in custom fan speed curve editor window
Built-in skin sizes have been reduced due to optimized internal skin panels representation and optimized compiled bitmap cache
Optional skin compression ability in the built-in skin compiler. Skin format reference documentation has been updated to document new compression options
Minor built-in skins appearance tweaks
Now MSI Afterburner uses previously undocumented power user oriented startup mode via the task scheduler under Windows Vista / Windows 7. MSI Afterburner launch no longer requires UAC confirmation at Windows startup. Please take a note that Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries must be installed to get new startup mode working
Now MSI Afterburner automatically fixes startup link if [Start with Windows] or [Apply overclocking at system startup] is enabled but the registry or task scheduler startup entry is missing
Startup profile is now displayed in [Apply at Windows startup] option floating tooltip instead of the main window
Now power users can enable optional DirectInput based hotkeys handler via the configuration file. DirectInput based hotkeys processing can seriously reduces hotkey response time in the applications heavily loading CPU (mostly 3D games) and leaving not enough time for processing standard keyboard input message queues. Please take a note that enabling such sophisticated hotkeys handling mode can cause some system security applications (e.g. pro-active application behavior analysis module of KIS) to warn you about possible keylogging threat
Improved skin engine, now skinned controls support horizontal and/or vertical centering. Skin format reference guide has been updated to document these new alignment modes
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.7.2. New version gives you the following improvements:
Now screen capture events are identified visually by text message flashing in On-Screen Display during 0.25s
Built-in skin sizes have been reduced due to optimized compiled bitmap cache
Added On-Screen Display profile for Startcraft II : Wings of Liberty
Added configuration file switch allowing sending MSI Afterburner to system tray instead of closing on button click
[Start the task only when computer is running on AC power] option is no longer set in the startup task settings to allow automatically starting application via the task scheduler on laptops or on some UPS models
Added optional data filtering mode for all hardware monitoring graphs. Now it is possible to enable special math data filtering algorithm independently for each hardware monitoring graph to reject misreading spikes caused by sensor access conflicts when running multiple hardware monitoring tools at the same time
Now it is posssible to use both core and shader clock as the primary clock when adjust the clocks in linked mode
Fixed videomemory usage monitoring for non-primary NVIDIA graphics cards
Application restart is no longer required to apply new user interface language
Updated localization engine. Now floating tooltips based context help system supports macro definitions
Localization reference guide documentation has been updated to v1.1
Various typo fixes in different language packs
Added Korean localization

New in MSI Afterburner 1.6.1 (Nov 12, 2010)

New in MSI Afterburner 1.6.0 (Nov 12, 2010)

Added NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards support (including voltage control!)
Added voltage control for MSI N240GT Low Profile series graphics cards
Changed marketing name for MSI R5670-PD512 in hardware database
Added basic screen capture support by means of built-in screen capture engine of MSI On-Screen Display server. Now it is possible to assign the hotkey for capturing screenshots in BMP,PNG or JPG formats on desktop, in DirectX or in OpenGL applications
Added hardware monitoring history logging support. Now MSI Afterburner is able to save history in native RivaTuner Hardware Monitoring Log file format. The log files captured with MSI Afterburner can be viewed in any text editor like Notepad or in graphics form in RivaTuner's HML file viewer (RivaTuner must be installed for viewing log files in graphics form)
Added new safety option allowing forcring constant voltage on some cards with voltage regulators supporting programmable dynamic voltage management (e.g. VT1165 or uP6266). New safety option may improve stability on some systems a well as provide power state independent voltage control on the systems with non-standard voltage control implementation
Screen capture and On-Screen Display hotkey events are now being processed via direct connection to the On-Screen Display server instead of command line. Due to this change Screen capture and On-Screen Display visibility control hotkeys are being processed faster now
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.7.1. New server gives you a lot of improvements including:
DirectX11 On-Screen Display and screen capture support
DirectX screen capture engine is no longer using DirectX runtimes to capture and compress screenshots. Screen capture and compression to PNG/JPG formats in DirectX applications is now handled by own more effective LIBPNG/JPEGLIB based library
PNG and JPG screen capture support for desktop and OpenGL applications
Adjustable JPG screen capture quality for experienced users
Screen capture support for DirectX10 and DirectX11 applications using multisampled antialiasing or non-standard frame buffer formats (e.g. sRGB)
Optional On-Screen Display 3D rendering mode. New mode uses 3D accelerated DirectX functions to emulate previously used 2D framebuffer access functions and render 2D text. New rendering mode provides On-Screen Display support in DirectX10 and DirectX11 applications using multisampled antialiasing and can also drastically reduce OSD related performance hit on the systems with badly optimized 2D acceleration in display drivers
Simplified On-Screen Display coordinate space settings. Rarely used desktop and window coordinate space modes have been merged into single framebuffer coordinate space mode
Now the server automatically selects framebuffer coordinate space instead of viewport coordinate space when viewport is not accessible (e.g. if pure Direct3D8 device is in use)
Improved application notification scheme during runtime profiles adjustment. Now runtime changes in OSD application profiles (e.g. OSD zoom ratio change on the fly) are reflected in affected application almost immedaitely instead of approximately 1 second delay in the previos versions
Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage unloading
Improved race condition protection system for multithreaded 3D engines (e.g. Age of dragons : Origins and ArmA II)
Improved race condition protection system for the systems running multiple OSD applications simultaneously (e.g. OSD server, FRAPS and STEAM In-Game Chat)
Improved floating injection address hooking technology. Due to more advanced built-in code analyzer hooks can be injected deeper into 3D application code if stealth mode is enabled. These changes improve stealth mode compatibility with third party tools using similar stealth injection technologies (e.g. FRAPS v2.9.8 and newer)
Now stealth mode cannot be toggled during 3D application runtime to reduce the risk of crashing 3D application
Removed single screen capture per second limitation
Updated profiles list
Now MSI Afterburner distributive includes original 128x128 PNG application logo (stored in .\Graphics folder) for dockbar applications like RocketDock or ObjectDock
It is no longer necessary to close the application to save monitoring window attachment state
[Stop the task if it runs longer than 3 days] option is no longer set in the task settings when using alternate startup mode via the task scheduler under Windows Vista / Windows 7
Full list active of On-Screen Display server clients is now displayed in [i] window instead of the most recent client
Floating tooltips help system is now reinitialized properly after runtime skin switching
Added Ukrainian localization

New in MSI Afterburner 1.5.1 (Nov 12, 2010)

New in MSI Afterburner 1.5.0 (Nov 12, 2010)

Added videomemory usage monitoring for NVIDIA graphics cards under Forceware 185.xx and newer drivers
Added GPU usage monitoring for NVIDIA GT2xx and newer graphics cards under Forceware 185.xx and newer drivers
Added VGA BIOS version detection for AMD graphics cards
Added optional ability to display hint messages in hardware monitoring window area. The messages notify the user about runtime profile management activity(such as profile creation, removal or applying) and other application events
Minor appearance tweaks in default skins
Added compact versions of default skins (default green, red and blue editions)
Now advanced MSI Afterburner properties also support floating tooltip based context help system similar to the main application window
Now MSI Afterburner supports RivaTuner's user extendable localization system. Currently localization system includes default English, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Dutch language packs and affects context help system and non-skinned advanced properties interface. Similar to RivaTuner you can also create your own language packs for your native language and share your work with MSI Afterburner users community!
Improved skin format. Now skinned fonts support characters remapping feature.All skins supplied with MSI Afterburner are using this feature, third party skin designers may decompile and peek into these skins to see an example of new feature usage
Now hardware monitoring window font size can be redefined via the skin, third party skin designers may decompile and peek into compact versions of default skins to see an example of new feature usage
Skin format reference documentation has been updated to v1.1 to reflect the format improvements mentioned above
Added shared memory interface allowing any third party applications to access MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring statistics. The interface is intended for future MSI Afterburner Vista / Windows 7 sidebar gadgets, however, the shared memory layout is publicly open so third party developers can use it to access MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring statistics from their own applications.
The SDK included in MSI Afterburner distributive contains open source sample demonstrating the access to shared memory from a third party application
Added command line switches for forcing MSI Afterburner to be minimized to the system tray area on startup or during runtime and for opening desired advanced MSI Afterburner properties tab. The switches are intended for interraction with future MSI Afterburner Vista / Windows 7 sidebar gadgets. Sample code included in the SDK also shows you how to detect, start and minimize installed MSI Afterburner, how to open desired tab in advanced properties and how to use MSI Afterburner profiles from third party applications
Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage unloading
Startup settings are now displayed next to the button
Added button for locking profiles modification
Now voltage control is also locked by default in safety options in advanced MSI Afterburner properties
Added AccessibilityCheckingPeriod configuration file switch for improving the compatibility with AMD ULPS power saving technology on Crossfire systems. The switch allows low-level monitoring module to use AMD driver API to check GPU accessibility and detect and display GPU sleep state properly. Please take a note that AMD API implementation is ineffective and hardly suits to realtime monitoring due to high CPU stress resulting in periodic stuttering in games.
That is why the compatibility switch is disabled by default, enable it only if you absolutely need to see slave GPU sleep state on the graphs and accept side effects like performance drop and stuttering resulting from ineffective AMD API implementation
Added NVIDIA GT240M PCI DeviceID range to the core to provide more efficient hardware monitoring via low-level core on mobile NVIDIA GT240 based systems (bonus feature, official mobile systems support is still not declared)
Graph limits are now adjustable in the graph properties in tab
Added AMD RV810 graphics processors family supports
Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5670 1GB series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5870 Lightning series graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5870 Twin Frozr II series graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5850 Twin Frozr II series graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
Added integration with external MSI Kombustor stability testing application
Added workaround for overclocking bug of ForceWare 196.21. Please take a note that the workaround is applied only to 196.00 - 196.21 driver versions range in order to ensure compatibility with future fixed NVIDIA drivers.
Now hardware database includes marketing names of MSI graphics cards so MSI Afterburner displays marketing names instead of generic graphics card model names when possible

New in MSI Afterburner 1.4.2 (Nov 12, 2010)

New in MSI Afterburner 1.4.1 (Nov 12, 2010)

New in MSI Afterburner 1.4.0 (Nov 12, 2010)

Added initial AMD RADEON HD 5970 series graphics cards support
Added voltage control for cost down reference design AMD RADEON HD 4870 series graphics cards with L6788A voltage regulators
Added voltage control for custom design MSI R4770 Cyclone graphics cards series with uP6204 voltage regulators
Ineffective and slow temperature, clock, GPU usage and fan speed monitoring implementation provided by native AMD's ADL SDK has been replaced with own more effective low-level codepath. Due to new codepath hardware monitoring related CPU performance hit has been reduced drastically on the systems with AMD graphics cards and drivers.
On-Screen Display and Logitech LCD monitoring modules no longer explicitly read displayed data from hardware and retrieve cached data from monitoring graphs instead. Due to this change CPU performance hit is reduced when OSD or LCD monitoring features are enabled.
Fan speed slider position and numeric fan speed input field are now being refreshed in automatic fan speed mode only when MSI Afterburner window is active.
Added configuration file switch allowing power users to unlock unofficial overclocking codepath in AMD display drivers (similar to AMDGPUClockTool, ATITool and RivaTuner overclocking implementation on AMD graphics cards).
Unlike AMD's official ADL SDK overclocking ways, unofficial ones are not limited with CCC clock limit but have some alternate disadvantages (e.g. PowerPlay support limitation).
Please take a note that unofficial overclocking methods are not supported either by AMD or by MSI, so unlock and use it at your own risk.
Now it is possible to toggle performance profiler status info visibility in hardware monitor window via [Show status] option in the context menu.
Fixed L6788A database entry for AMD RADEON HD 4770 series graphics cards
GPU voltage monitoring feature is now locked and not available by default.
Unfortunately some inexperienced users don't understand the risk of running multiple tools accessing voltage regulator at the same time and tend to use helper voltage monitoring features in everyday hardware monitoring sessions in conjunction with third party VRM monitoring tools, intensively writing data to VRM and periodically causing it to enter wrong state due to write collision. Unfortunately such issues are wrongly treated by certain users as instability of our product. To prevent such rumors, since this version voltage monitoring feature is no longer available to beginners by default.
Experienced users understanding these specifics and accepting these risks may unlock voltage monitoring features via new safety option in [General]tab
AMD RV8xx I2C microcontroller is now being forcibly reset prior to starting new I2C transaction to minimize the risk of I2C collisions with third party tool without I2C synchronization protocol support (e.g. AMDGPUClockTool)
Added safety option allowing users to disable voltage control feature if it is not needed
Now Afterburner forcibly changes memory clock for all performance levels at once on AMD graphics cards with equal default memory clocks defined for all performance levels to bypass flickering issue caused by incorrect PowerPlay dynamic memory clock changing implementation on some cards
Added Catalyst driver family version detection for AMD graphics cards
Added option to display system time in the On-Screen Display
Added red and blue editions of default skin
Various minor user interface and skin tweaks
Added configuration file switches allowing power users to tweak Afterburner startup process and define startup delay or force the startup to be handled by Windows Vista / Windows 7 Task Scheduler to bypass UAC evaluation window (additional Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 runtime libraries installation is required for task scheduler based startup way)
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.6.0. New server provides improved desktop windows notification mechanism and also features optional power user oriented task scheduler based startup way
Added skin format reference documentation. Now third party skin designers may use this local offline documentation to create their own skins for MSI Afterburner. Official MSI Afterburner skin creation contest is approaching!

New in MSI Afterburner 1.3.0 (Nov 12, 2010)

New in MSI Afterburner 1.2.0 (Nov 12, 2010)

Added NVIDIA G 210 and GT 240 series graphics cards support
Added voltage control for custom design MSI N220GT and N240GT series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
Added intitial AMD RADEON HD 5750 and AMD RADEON HD 5770 series graphics cards support
Added Logitech keyboards LCD displays support. Now it is possible to display hardware monitor data in Logitech keyboards LCD
Extended I2C address scanning range for uP6208 voltage regulators to allow supporting voltage control on non-MSI custom design graphics cards equipped with uP6208
Fixed on-board memory size detection for AMD RADEON HD 5000 series graphics cards
Now [Synchronize settings for similar graphics processors] option also affects voltage control
Fixed database entry for AMD RADEON HD 4890 series graphics cards. Afterburner no longer adjusts 2D voltage instead of 3D voltage on AMD RADEON HD 4890
Fixed database entry for AMD RADEON HD 5850 series graphics cards. Afterburner no longer adjusts UVD voltage instead of 3D voltage on AMD RADEON HD 5850
Automatic profiles manager is now restarted after resuming from suspended mode
Revised VRM access synchronization protocol for safer simultaneous VRM polling by multiple software products at the same time
Added [Always on top] setting to the context menu of detached hardware monitor window. When this option is disabled, hardware monitor window can be minimized to the taskbar while staying in detached mode
Now it is possible to pause hardware monitor activity via [Pause] option in the context menu of hardware monitor window
Maximum allowed hardware polling period has been extended from 5 to 60 seconds
Added configuration file setting allowing power users to display performance profiler status informaition in the hardware monitor window. The information allows estimating average CPU performance hit caused by hardware monitor and software automatic fan control layers
Optimized timer message queue processing under high CPU load conditions for better hardware monitoring and software automatic fan control events handling
Reduced CPU usage for simultaneous GPU clock frequency and GPU usage readings on AMD graphics cards, both values are being read in single pass now
Maximum limits has been extended from 1000 to 1500MHz for core clock graph and from 2000 to 2500MHz for shader clock and memory clock graphs
Added readme file and option to display it in the installer
Now [Fan] tab is not displayed in advanced settings window if there are no fan control capable GPUs in the system
Updated context help files, added more hints to [User define] button help

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