Latest MSI Afterburner Betas & Updates

Information for newer AMD graphics card owners from Unwinder(the MSI Afterburner developer):

Good news, AMD finally provided new ADL SDK to AIC partners, so MSI, Sapphire, Gigabyte and the rest can start updating their software to make fan control compatible with Adrenaline 2019 drivers series. I'll start working on it after NY holidays, after Jan 9. Hope it won't take long, so new beta of AB with fan control support is expected around mid January.

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MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 11 (14248) Download

AfterBurner 4.6.0 Beta 11

• 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 %. Due to this limitation, MSI Afterburner is reporting fan speed as % 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.
• 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).
• Now CPU topology info (i.e. each logical CPU mapping to physical CPU package and core) is displayed in system info window
• Now mandatory MSI Afterburner installation option is greyed out and cannot be unchecked during installation
• Now 64 –bit Visual C++ 2008 runtimes are also installed by MSI Afterburner installer. This should fix the issues with inability to open OC Scanner window on the system with no runtimes installed (typically no RTSS installed)
• Right anchor voltage/frequency curve adjustment mode (<Ctrl> + point drag) is now working properly when maximum voltage limit is greater than the maximum point voltage
• Updated database entries with final subsystem IDs for MSI 2080Ti Lightning family

Thanks Polo, I saw early this morning a new version was coming in the forums, it was just the changelog description , but Unwinder hadn't uploaded it at the time yet.

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 12 (14315) Download

AfterBurner 4.6.0 Beta 12

• Fixed problem with incorrect V/F curve rendering on some AMD GPUs with abnormal voltage tables (where voltages were not monotonically increasing with P-State index)
• Visible voltage / frequency range in V/F curve editor window on AMD GPUs is now extended to fit minimum and maximum P-State voltages and frequencies
• Added support for some future NVIDIA Turing GPUs
• 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 screenshots, if you want to exclude unnecessary graphs from it.

Thanks Polo, I've been waiting since yesterday for it.

Script to automatically copy the "nvml.dll" to the required folder to prevent OC Scanner from giving the "Assertion failed!" error.

Code:

@echo OFF
COLOR 02
:: Check for administrative permissions 
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system" 
:: If error flag set, we do not have admin. 
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' ( 
echo Requesting administrative privileges... 
goto UACPrompt 
) else ( goto gotAdmin ) 
:UACPrompt 
echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" 
echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/C """"%~f0""""", , "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" 
cscript "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" 
exit /B 
:gotAdmin 
if exist "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ( del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs" ) 
pushd "%CD%" 
CD /D "%~dp0" 
:: BatchGotAdmin (Run as Admin code ends)
echo.
echo ======== NVIDIA OC Scanner Fix ========
echo.
if not exist "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI" mkdir "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI" >NUL
xcopy "C:\Windows\System32\nvml.dll" "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI"
echo.
echo Press any key to exit...
pause >NUL

New Beta: 4.6.0 Beta 14 (14649)

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 14 (14649) Download

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 beta 14 (build 14649)

- Now you can use <Tab> and <Shift>+<Tab> keys to select next/previous point on the curve. This feature is useful for those who prefer to use keyboard <Up>/<Down> keys to fine-tune selected point frequency offset instead of adjusting the point with mouse cursor. I'm not sure if many of you know that, but I'll remind that you can also hold <Ctrl> while fine-tuning frequency offset with <Up>/<Down> keys to jump to the nearest frequency value rounded to 10MHz
- Now you can press <Enter> key to edit selected point frequency offset from keyboard. Alternately you may press <Shift>+<Enter> to specify absolute target frequency value, so the editor will calculate desired offset automatically
- Slightly changed keyboard control interface for AMD implementation of V/F curve editor. Previously you could select P-State and fine-tune frequency with <Up>/<Down> or <Ctrl>+<Up>/<Ctrl>+<Down> keys or fine-tune voltage <Left>/<Right> or <Ctrl>+<Left>/<Ctrl>+<Right> keys. Now both frequency and voltage are adjusted with <Up>/<Down> or <Ctrl>+<Up>/<Ctrl>+<Down> keys and voltage or frequency keyboard input focus is selected with <PageUp> / <PageDown> keys. Voltage or frequency keyboard input focus is now highlighted by selected point brightness on the curve. Keyboard input focus also affects new <Enter> / <Shift> + <Enter> functionality, allowing you to type in target voltage or frequency in both offset or absolute form
- Similar to NVIDIA implementation, now you may also hold <Alt> when dragging V/F curve point on AMD systems. This will result in moving whole curve up/down while preserving each point's offset
- Added undo/redo support to voltage/frequency curve editor:
o 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 <Ctrl>+<Y> / <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<Z> keys
o Undo history is discarded when you apply the curve, forcibly reread it from hardware with <F5> key or switch to different GPU on multi-GPU system
o Number of recorded undo/redo steps is displayed in square brackets in the editor window caption
- 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
- NVIDIA Scanner components are updated to latest version, NVML.dll issue should be addressed now


RTSS 7.2.1 Beta 5 (build 20189)

- Slightly refactored Direct3D and Vulkan On-Screen Display rendering codepaths due to implementation of optional offscreen rendering mode. This mode is currently disabled by default, it is reserved for future versions as a codebase for asynchronous On-Screen Display rendering implementation
- Changed power user protected settings locking approach. Now power user settings ("Enable Custom Direct3D support" options and Vector2D On-Screen Display rendering mode) are locked for enabling by default in the global profile only, but you can still change them at application profiles level
- Now RivaTuner Statistics Server validates DirectX runtimes installation at startup and displays warning message if required DirectX runtime components are missing. Power users may disable this warning message as well as any previously existing diagnostic warning messages displayed at RivaTuner Statistics Server startup and enable silent startup mode via the configuration file if necessary
- Added user extendable exclusions list for desktop windows notification performed during installation and uninstallation of system CBT hooks. Currently the only exclusion in the list is Microsoft Outlook process, which previously tended to display help popup window on closing RivaTuner Statistics Server
- Rendering pipeline flushing no longer stays active if you enable scanline sync mode but disable framerate limiting support with hotkeys from MSI Afterburner
- Fixed multhithreaded active busy-wait loop based frame capture implementation, which could prevent desktop videocapture from working in the previous version

New Beta: MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 15 (14697) Download

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 beta 15

Includes full RVII support, including overclocking (which was missing in the previous early b15 build).

Now you can use <Tab> and <Shift>+<Tab> keys to select next/previous point on the curve. This feature is useful for those who prefer to use keyboard <Up>/<Down> keys to fine-tune selected point frequency offset instead of adjusting the point with mouse cursor. I'm not sure if many of you know that, but I'll remind that you can also hold <Ctrl> while fine-tuning frequency offset with <Up>/<Down> keys to jump to the nearest frequency value rounded to 10MHz

Now you can press <Enter> key to edit selected point frequency offset from keyboard. Alternately you may press <Shift>+<Enter> to specify absolute target frequency value, so the editor will calculate desired offset automatically
Slightly changed keyboard control interface for AMD implementation of V/F curve editor. Previously you could select P-State and fine-tune frequency with <Up>/<Down> or <Ctrl>+<Up>/<Ctrl>+<Down> keys or fine-tune voltage <Left>/<Right> or <Ctrl>+<Left>/<Ctrl>+<Right> keys. Now both frequency and voltage are adjusted with <Up>/<Down> or <Ctrl>+<Up>/<Ctrl>+<Down> keys and voltage or frequency keyboard input focus is selected with <PageUp> / <PageDown> keys. Voltage or frequency keyboard input focus is now highlighted by selected point brightness on the curve. Keyboard input focus also affects new <Enter> / <Shift> + <Enter> functionality, allowing you to type in target voltage or frequency in both offset or absolute form

Similar to NVIDIA implementation, now you may also hold <Alt> when dragging V/F curve point on AMD systems. This will result in moving whole curve up/down while preserving each point's offset
Added undo/redo support to voltage/frequency curve editor:

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 <Ctrl>+<Y> / <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<Z> keys
Undo history is discarded when you apply the curve, forcibly reread it from hardware with <F5> key or switch to different GPU on multi-GPU system

Number of recorded undo/redo steps is displayed in square brackets in the editor window caption
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

NVIDIA Scanner components are updated to latest version, NVML.dll issue should be addressed now

Read Unwinders post here
A few important notes for RADEON VII owners: RTSS 6.7.0 beta 1 | Page 91 | guru3D Forums

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 16 (14806) Download