MSI Afterburner isn’t exactly game capture software, but like Nvidia’s GeForce Experience, it's a popular program that gaming enthusiasts might already have on their system. Is predominantly a tool—and not just MSI graphics cards, either—that comes with a second download called RivaTuner Statistics Server. RTSS is a great tool for limiting the frame rates of your games if your GPU is working harder than necessary.
Get a GPU Overclocking Software Suite. Power Limit – Controls the Max power the GPU is allowed to consume. You can usually get away with setting this between 65% to 85% without reducing performance. Temp Limit – Sets the maximum temperature of the GPU before throttling or shutdown occurs. Core Clock (Mhz) – The core GPU speed.
Together these two pieces of software can not only overclock and tweak your system, but record game capture video as well.Note: This review is part of our roundup of. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them.In Afterburner 4.5.0 you get to the video capture settings by clicking on the settings cog icon in the center of the main dashboard. Then in the new window that opens, use the scroll arrows in the upper right corner to get to the Video capture tab. By default, you configure your own hotkey to start recording, but you can also set it to automatically record every time you start a game.
IDGMSI Afterburner's settings window.There are many other settings below that. You can change the video and container formats, for example, though your choices are limited. The default video format is MJPG, but there’s also VFW, NV12, and RTV-1. As for the container format (the file type for the video) your only choices are AVI and MKV. Still, this is a power user tool and for those who care it’s an excellent opportunity to customize video captures.Afterburner also lets you set the quality type as a percentage as opposed to the usual “low, medium, and high” options.You can adjust the frame size, the frame rate (from 0 up to 100), frame rate limit, and where you want to save your files. For audio you can record both the game sounds and your own microphone.Some of these features are quite common in other suites, but the fine grain tools—such as the frame size, and the choice of compression and container formats—are not. Performance IDGRivatuner Statistics TunerFor this round of testing, we used our standard budget test rig and left all settings as-is with no adjustments, the only exception being that we set ctrl + F5 to be our hotkey for starting a recording.Running the Metro: Last Light Redux benchmark three times with everything set to low, our rig went from an average frame rate of 58.67 without recording software active down to an abominable 39fps with Afterburner engaged.
It went from nearly hitting the “golden standard” of 60 frames per second to just barely above console level. That’s still playable, mind you, but it offers a striking difference in play quality.Testing with The Division benchmark didn’t fare much better. Without Afterburner running we were hitting 56.3 frames per second, and that dropped to 42.5fps with the capture software running.
ConclusionA lot of PC enthusiasts adore MSI Afterburner as an overclocking tool, and with a mid- to high range gaming machine, Afterburner’s screen capture tools are probably just fine. If you’ve got a budget rig, however, you can do much better. On top of that, Afterburner is not easy to use, the amount of tweaking is probably overkill for most, and the fact that it depends on Riva Statistics Tuner (meaning you need two tools to do one job) isn’t great.Bottom line? This is not the screen capture tool you’re looking for.
MSI Afterburner 4.6.2 Beta 2 download - Guru3D and MSI have been working hard on AfterBurner, today we release an updated this revision of Afterburner, this application successfully secured the leading position on graphics card utilities.MSI Afterburner is ultimate graphics card utility, developed by the Guru3D RivaTuner team. The Beta releases sometimes have an expiration limit, the stable and final build releases do not. We recommend using a final build. We have written a GeForce GTX series 1000 and newer overclocking guide as over time a number of things changed like Curve based tweaking as well as automated tweaking.
Not just that, we have also updated RTSS, our statistics server that enables the overlay with MSI AfterBurner to offer DirectX 12 overlay support. Please read the full release notes for all changes (as there are quite a few of them). Have fun tweaking. Does your overlay not work anymore after an update? I miss the more professional and more usable GUI of the RivaTuner-days. No idea why mobo manufactures and oc utilities go with those bloat skins instead of clean minimalistic and flat designsThat old classic GUI of RT-days was my personal preference as well.
But for their branded overclocking software vendors (all of them, and MSI are not the exception) do want to see skinning instead of classic minimalistic traditional GUI. Well, that's their money, their product, their choice. Most of tools (if not all of them besides AB) are not even skinnable by end user, but at least with AB I provide SDK with built-in skin compiler, decompiler, skin format documentation.
That's absolutely everything that you need to create your professional looking skins and show a few millions of application users who is the daddy in skinning. So what is the problem?Chris aka Drerex, the person who created skins for AB since v4, is the same community member as you are. Nothing prevents anyone from doing the same and contributing community similar way. #5661984 Posted on: 09:38 PMThanks Unwinder. Been using afterburner since its initial release and before that was river tuner. The good old days, when I bought my 6800GS back in 2005, a friend told me that you could overclock the card in nvidia driver with coolbits and that river tuner could unlock more pipelines.
My 6800gs had 12 pipelines but could unlock to 16! I even unlocked my gfs at the time geforce 6200 256mb to 8 pipelines from 4. That was a huge increase for her. Boy have you done some work over the last 14 years I have been on guru3d! #5661997 Posted on: 11:28 PMUnwinder-really like the 'Modern' Interface! Easy on the eyes!
Also wanted to let you know that the 4.6 and the 4.6.1 Final versions both run fine-with no problems-with my RX-590/RX-480 8GB Crossfire system, coupled with the Adrenalin 19.4.2 drivers, Win10x64 beta build (RC, really) v1903, build 18362.53-due for general release in May. Prior to 4.6 Final I was having some trouble here and there with Crossfire mode that would always correct when I would uninstall both Riva Tuner & Afterburner (why I had to uninstall them I have no idea. )-but as those were beta versions of AB & RT, I waited on the final versions for both-and am glad to report they work fine with this configuration now when running in Crossfire or D3d12 multi-GPU support. So much easier just to be able to use AB than to use Wattman separately for each GPU.
Works great-and these are different frequency GPUs running at 1600MHz and 1305 MHz respectively-and no problems (with GPU sync turned off in the AB settings!) So thanks again-glad to report extremely positive results here!