MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 Final Stable Download

MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 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 the 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 always recommend using a final build. We have written a GeForce GTX series overclocking guide right here 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? Please perform a full uninstall of RTSS and AfterBurner (with profiles removal) and then perform a CLEAN install of it.

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MSI Afterburner 4.6.3

• Added NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture support:
• Added new fan control 3.0 API support
• 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' 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 ow 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.
• MSI Afterburner 4.6.3 beta 5 will additionally contain one minor functionality upgrade for AMD 6800/6900 users: now it internally switches "Tuning control" to "Manual" mode automatically, so it is not necessary to do it yourself in Adrenalin control panel. And of course, it will contain updated RTSS 7.3.0 Beta 10 bundled with it.

MSI Afterburner 4.6.2

• Added voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20x0 SUPER series graphic cards
• Added voltage control for AMD RADEON RX 5700 series graphics cards
• Added new MSI Steampunked, MSI Lightning Anniversary and MSI Mystic skins by Drerex design
• Improved hardware monitoring module:
• Added CPU temperature monitoring support for AMD Ryzen 3X00 processors family
• Added thermal offset for CPU temperature monitoring on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 29X0 processors family
• Added package CPU power and per-core CPU power monitoring for AMD Ryzen processors family
• Improved monitoring plugins architecture:
• Added API function for reading host application’s hardware monitoring timestamp from the plugins. The timestamp is updated by host on each hardware polling iteration, so it allows the plugin to precache and reuse some sensor data if the same physical sensor value is being used in multiple data sources exported by plugin. Such approach is demonstrated in updated CPU.dll plugin for duplicating the same temperature sensor value for all cores on AMD CPU
• Added optional plugin unititialization callback function, which is called by the host before unloading the plugins. New multithreaded Ping.dll plugin is demonstrating new function usage to shut down ping monitoring thread properly
• Improved monitoring plugins:
• Updated CPU.dll plugin is demonstating AMD Ryzen CPU temperature monitoring implementation and optimal duplication of the same temperature sensor readback for all CPU cores
• Added new Ping.dll plugin for monitoring ping to desired server via ICMP echo requests. Please take a note that the plugin is configured to monitor ping to www.guru3d.com by default, it is up to you to specify target server name or IP address in the plugin properties
• Improved skin engine:
• Optimized skin rendering performance for skins using multiple overlapped animated indicators
• Added position smoothing support to skinned indicators
• Now skinned applications can forcibly disable indicator animation if necessary
• Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.8 to document these changes
• Updated IO driver provides more secure MMIO and MSR access interface
• RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v7.2.3

Version 4.6.2

• Added new skins by Drerex design
• Improved skin engine:
• Optimized skin rendering performance for skins using multiple overlapped animated indicators
• Added position smoothing support to skinned indicators
• Now skinned applications can forcibly disable indicator animation if necessary
• Skin format reference guide has been updated to v1.8 to document these changes

Notes on Animated Steampunk Skin - 4.6.2 is optimized to improve performance of background animation rendering of new Steampunked skin, however, skin animation can still be rather performance hungry on old slow CPUs. So keep your eyes on CPU usage when using this skin, and if it is too high for you, you may try to do the following things to reduce it:

• Set skin composition mode to "layered with colorkey" (the fastest one) if you were using "layered with alpha" mode. Layered skin composition mode with alpha channel is the slowest one and the most CPU hungry due to using per-pixel transparency
• Reduce skin scaling factor in UI properties of MSI AB, higher skin scaling values cause higher CPU load
• Disable animation completely, currently there is no dedicated option for it in GUI, however you can do it via editing the config and setting EnableAnimatedIndicators to 0