MSI, the leading motherboard and graphics card manufacturer in the world, announced today that its Afterburner V2.1.0 overclocking utility and its Kombustor V2.0.0 testing utility is now available for all gamers to download worldwide.
The new version of Afterburner not only supports the latest NVIDIA GeForce 500 and AMD Radeon HD 6000 series of graphics cards*, but also adds the Predator in-games video capture function. Gamers can now capture all of their most intense moments in their favourite games and share them with the world on sites like YouTube.
Changelog:
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
ow 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
Program Information Category:
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Free Version: 2.1.0 Size: 24.6MB Works on: Windows