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Afterburner Version 2.0.0 (2010-09-02)
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

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* 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 N470 GTX 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:
o Reduced On-Screen Display rendering related CPU performance hit due to more effective geometry batching in On-Screen Display 3D rendering mode codepath
o Now MSI On-Screen Display server supports RivaTuner's user extendable localization system
o Screenshot compression library SaveImage.dll has been replaced with more progressive SaveMedia.dll library providing unified screenshot and video encoding engine
o JPEG screenshot quality settings are no longer power user oriented and can be adjusted directly from the client application GUI
o Screen capture implementation is now multithreaded to minimize the impact on the game performance when saving screenshots on the systems with multicore CPUs
o Text indication of screen capture events in the On-Screen Display has been replaced with graphics progress indicator
o 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)
o 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:
o Realtime video capture support for any Direct3D8, Direct3D9, Direct3D10, Direct3D11 and OpenGL applications
o 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
o 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
o Multithreaded SIMD optimized encoders are aimed to provide the maximum compression performance on modern multicore CPUs with SSE2 instructions
o support
o Various options allowing you to tweak video capture performance on your system: customizable target video framerate, customizable target video
o quality, controllable multithreaded optimization and various frame downsampling modes
o Audio stream capture and additional video capture related enhancements are coming in future versions
* Now 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

Final non-beta release.
Update: compiled with latest ZoomGPU 1.6.1 (support of GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 cores).
New: added score submission with account.
New: added a new settings in KMark benchmark for the Dec 2011 competition. In this setting, PhysX and 3D are in the same thread and built-in multicore PhysX is enabled.
Changed: in KMark benchmark, PhysX CPU checkbox changed in PhysX GPU checkbox.

- Memory clock limit has been extended to 180% on AMD RADEON 79x0 graphics cards in unofficial overclocking mode
- Added low-level clock frequencies monitoring for AMD RADEON 79x0 graphics cards
- Added PowerTune adjustment slider for AMD HD 6xxx and 7xxx series graphics cards
- Improved overclocking profiles format provides compatibility with future 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
- MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to v4.3.2. New version gives the following improvements:
o Added gamma corrected video capture support
o Framerate limit ratio for video capture in no longer controlled via the server's profiles. Now it can be adjusted directly into MSI Afterburner's video capture properties
o Added Direct3D9Ex support (DOTA 2 and Darkness 2 demo)
o Improved desktop windows notification mechanism eliminates unwanted beeps occurring on some systems during the server startup / shutdown
o Output video dimensions are now cropped to be multiple of 16 to improve compatibility with some third party MJPG decoders
o Improved OpenGL On-Screen Display coordinates calculation for framebuffer coordinate space mode
o Now "Enable compatibility with modified Direct3D runtime libraries" option is compatible with Direct3D9 game engines using double FPU precision (MassEffect series)

- 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
- Fixed issue preventing applying new settings from control shared memory
- Fixed issue with video capture timer display, causing hours to be incremented erroneously after each 6 minutes of videorecording
- Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.5 to document new indicator types support
- 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

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

MSI Afterburner 2.2.1 (2012/5/14)
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

• Increased upper allowed power limit for power limit adjustment slider on some extreme editions of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600 series graphics cards
• ATIPDLXX.DLL is no longer included in MSI Afterburner distributive
• MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.3.4. New version gives you the following improvements:
o Fixed framerate calculation for DirectX10/DirectX11 applications, which actively use presentation testing during rendering (e.g. Max Payne 3)

•Revised I2C access API for NVIDIA 301.xx and newer display drivers
•Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N680GTX Lightning series graphics cards with CHL8318+uP6262 voltage regulators
•Added memory and VRM temperature monitoring for custom design MSI N680GTX Lightning series graphics cards with NCT7718W thermal sensors
•Added core, memory and auxiliary PEXVDD voltage control for custom design MSI N670GTX Power Edition series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators

MSI Afterburner v4.4.2:

- Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA TITAN V series graphics cards
- Fixed one polling period delay for values displayed in On-Screen Display graph labels
- Fixed incorrect group names displayed for "Framerate Min", "Framerate Avg", "Framerate Max", "Framerate 1% Low" and "Framerate 0.1% Low" graphs in Logitech keyboard LCD in text mode
- Improved detection of active 3D application, which is supplying data to "Framerate" and "Frametime" graphs, in cases when running multiple 3D applications simultaneously
- RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.0.2

RivaTuner Statistics Server v7.0.2:​

- New unified geometry batching implementation for all supported 3D APIs provides more efficient On-Screen Display rendering and more easily extendable renderer architecture
- Due to new unified geometry batching implementation barchart graphs are now being rendered in a single pass with On-Screen Display text
- Added new formatting tags for displaying embedded bars
- Fixed multithreaded audio encoder uninitialization issue, which could cause temporary prerecord files not to be deleted when prerecording video to a file
- Updated profiles list

MSI Afterburner v4.4.1:

· Fixed crash on application startup on the systems with more than 8 NVIDIA GPUs installed on recent NVIDIA display drivers
· Now the list of GPUs in "General" tab in the application properties is sorted properly on the systems with more than 10 GPUs installed
· Added voltage control for NVIDIA P104-100 and P106-100 mining cards
· Now MSI Afterburner is displaying notification message in monitoring window area when trying to overclock NVIDIA 10x0 series GPU with debug mode enabled in NVIDIA control panel
· Added "Frametate Min", "Frametate Avg", "Frametate Max", "Frametate 1% Low" and "Frametate 0.1% Low" graphs to hardware monitoring module. The graphs are duplicating benchmark statistics displayed in benchmark On-Screen Display, but give you more freedom in On-Screen Display customization
· Improved On-Screen Display layout editor. Now you can customize On-Screen Display graph styles independently for each graph instead of changing it globally
· RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.0.1

RivaTuner Statistics Server v7.0.1:

· Improved built-in benchmarking engine:
o Added 1%/0.1% low framerate statistics calculation. Unlike traditional calculation approach, which is assuming post-processing of whole set of collected frametimes at the final stage of benchmarking, RivaTuner Statistics Server introduces new concepts of dynamic 1%/0.1% low framerate statistics calculation. The implementation is open source and demonstrated in RivaTuner Statistics Server SDK.
o 1%/0.1% low framerates are stored in the benchmark results file. 1%/0.1% low framerate are also displayed in benchmark On-Screen Display, so you may track 1%/0.1% low framerate dynamics in realtime.
· Updated SDK:
o Added new open source RTSSFrametimePipeSample sample. The sample is demonstrating implementation of custom benchmarking software, which is receiving per-frame frametime statistics in realtime via named pipe connection to RivaTuner Statistics Server. Post-processing text frametime log files after running the benchmark is no longer necessary! Now you may create your own benchmarking software and receive frametime data from RivaTuner Statistics Server in realtime directly while 3D application is running. Such approach was in use by some major hardware reviewers for a few years, now it is open source and available to everyone! The sample is also demonstrating the following techniques:
§ Realtime frametime graph rendering
§ Realtime current framerate averaging with sliding window algorithm, minimum and maximum framerates calculation and display
§ Dynamic 1%/0.1% low framerate statistics calculation and display
§ Logging per-frame frametime, current, minimum, average, maximum, 1% low and 0.1% low framerates to CSV text file
· Improved text formatting tags support:
o Now text position tags can use negative coordinates to move a text to a new position specified in character units instead of zoomed pixel units
o Improved text position tags handling for cases when the tag is used explicitly before the embedded object
o Added new visualization style support for embedded graph objects. Now it is possible to embed barchart styled graphs
· Slightly optimized On-Screen Display geometry batching for all 3D APIs in order to simplify the process of new functionality implementation in future versions