Guru3D RTSS Rivatuner Statistics Server Download 7.3.0 Beta 4

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Here you can download RTSS Rivatuner Statistics Server. This is the official homepage for Rivatuner. Initially designed as a small helper application for RivaTuner graphics card utility, RivaTuner Statistics Server became de-facto framerate monitoring, On-Screen Display and high-performance video capture service provider for other graphics card utilities.

We've issued RTSS 7.3.0 Beta to a public release. Build 21053 is available for download here at the only official website you can download it from. Please don't download it anywhere else as you never know what you install. We always suggest that you download the latest full beta package of MSI Afterburner which always includes a stable build of RTSS - Download here.

Note: Does your overlay not work anymore after the update? Please perform a full uninstall of RTSS and AfterBurner (with profiles removal) and perform a CLEAN install of it.

Features:

The server provides framerate and frametime monitoring support to the client applications. Framerate and frametime statistics is being collected for DirectX and OpenGL applications. The statistics can be rendered in On-Screen Display or provided to client applications connected to the server.
The server provides 3D acceleration usage statistics to the client applications. The clients can use the statistics to determine if any 3D applications are currently running and apply different hardware profiles depending on it.
The server provides On-Screen Display support to the client applications. The clients can display any text info in the On-Screen
Display in DirectX and OpenGL applications. The server can be also used as a standalone framerate monitoring solution and display own framerate statistics in the On-Screen Display.
The server provides desktop and in-game screen capture support to the client applications. BMP, PNG and JPG screen capture formats are supported.
The server provides high-performance real-time desktop and in-game video capture support to the client applications.
Uncompressed, high-performance custom RTV1 and native MJPG video encoding, encoding with third-party external VFW compatible codecs (e.g. Lagarith or x264vfw) and hardware accelerated H.264 encoding via Intel QuickSync, NVIDIA NVENC and AMD VCE are supported in conjunction with wide range of additional video capture related options, multisource stereo and multichannel (for Window Vista and newer) audio capture with Push-To-Talk support. The functionality of expensive commercial video capture products is now available to everyone absolutely for free! There is no need to buy dedicated video capture software anymore!
Framerate limiting support. Limiting the framerate during gaming can help to reduce the power consumption as well as it can improve gaming experience due to removing unwanted micro stuttering effect caused by framerate fluctuations.
User extendable architecture. You may express your creativity and design your own skins for RivaTuner Statistics Server, create localization for your native language, use the server to display any custom text in On-Screen Display directly from your own application and many, many more!

System requirements:

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10 (both x86 and x64 versions) with full administrative rights
Any DirectX, Vulkan or OpenGL compatible graphics card

We have some additional Youtube videos showing some of the cool new features:

RivaTuner Statistics Server Version 7.4.0 build 21735

The plugin provides internal HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) and minimalistic built-in hardware monitoring core based on it. The HAL provides basic CPU and RAM usage related data sources and architecture specific GPU related monitoring data sources (such as graphics engine usage, videomemory usage, graphics processor and videomemory clocks, temperatures, power consumption, fan speeds and so on) available on modern discrete AMD and NVIDIA GPUs and integrated Intel GPUs. Internal HAL do not rely on low-level access to hardware in any form, it uses only native GPU monitoring functionality embedded in OS and GPU display drivers: NVAPI for modern NVIDIA GPUs, AMD ADL for modern AMD GPUs and D3DKMT for Intel iGPUs and legacy GPUs. Such approach don not break our main principle of decoupling overlay from hardware monitoring application, so HAL data sources have close to zero chances to affect hardware compatibility and they can be safely used in conjunction with any external data provider application of your choice
The plugin provides an ability to import data sources from Windows performance counters, implementation is a direct clone of MSI Afterburner’s PerfConter plugin. Windows performance counters provide you built-in monitoring of HDD usage and read/write speeds, network interface download and upload rates, a lot of detailed global and per-process CPU, memory and pagefile related metrics as well as hundreds of other performance counters visible to OS
Added alternate named pipe interface for streaming frametime statistics to third party applications in real time
Scanline sync no longer stops working in OpenGL applications when OSD support is disabled at application profile level
Added alternate asynchronous On-Screen Display renderer for Vulkan applications presenting frames from compute queue (id Tech 6 and newer engine games like Doom 2016 and Dooom Eternal). The implementation is using original AMD’s high performance concept of asynchronous offscreen overlay rendering and the principle of asynchronically combining it with framebuffer directly from compute pipeline with compute shader without stalling compute/graphics pipelines. PresentFromCompute entry in global profile template is set to 1 by default now and it enables new asynchronous implementation. The previous synchronous and more performance consuming implementation is also available and can be enabled by setting PresentFromCompute to 2. It is recommended to enable the previous synchronous implementation for performance comparisons only and for estimating difference in performance hit between new and old implementations
Various compatibility improvements in the hook engine:

Now any application may manifest itself as incompatible with RivaTuner Statistics Server overlay/hooks either via declaring special named exported variable (recommended and preferred way for EXE-level implementation) or via setting process environment variable (alternate way for DLL-level implementation). So the applications incompatible with RivaTuner Statistics Server may prevent its API hooking functionality with just a couple lines of code at compile time without need to add exclusion profile for it from RivaTuner Statistics Server side
Added user extendable profile mapper to profile loader. The mapper is allowing RivaTuner Statistics Server to map multiple executable names matching with specified wildcard (e.g. vegas130.exe, vegas140.exe and so on for different versions of Sony Vegas) to a single profile file, so it is no longer necessary to create exclusion profiles for each version of such application independently
Added user extendable injection ignore triggers list. Similar to injection delay triggers list, injection ignore triggers list allows defining the set of DLL modules, which will prevent RivaTuner Statistics Server from injecting target process when any of such modules is detected in the process context. This feature is aimed to exclude applications using typical GPU accelerated GUI libraries from hooking. The list currently includes WPF framework libraries (PresentationFramework.dll and PresentationFramework.NI.dll), so all WPF applications are excluded from hooking now

Improved RivaTuner Statistics Server host API:
- New localization API is allowing the plugins to use host multilanguage translation functionality for localizing the plugin’s GUI
- New On-Screen Display preview API is allowing the plugins to render On-Screen Display on top of Direct3D frambuffer specified by caller and report back each rendered layer’s screen position and extent. On-Screen Display preview API can be used to implement visual On-Screen Display editing functionality
- Added helper PickColor API function, allowing the plugins to use advanced host color picker dialog window
Improved On-Screen Display hypertext formatting implementation:
- Various fixes in alignment, positioning and backspace tags parsing implementation
- Added layer definition tags. Each layer defined inside the hypertext is treated by parser as an independent block of text and new On-Screen Display preview API is able to report each rendered layer’s screen position and extent independently. Please take a note that layer definition tags also affect text extent guru calculation, so embedded objects with zero height and width defined inside the layer are covering just their layer area instead of whole On-Screen Display area
- Added extent override tags support. By default the layer extent is defined by hypertext content, but you may force the layer extent to be greater than actual content extent with new extent override tag. The tag also allows aligning the layer content by left/right/top/bottom or centering it horizontally/vertically
- Added image loading tags support. The tags are allowing the parser to load and embed a custom PNG image into On-Screen Display font texture
- Added image embedding tags support. The tags are allowing you to render a part of On-Screen Display font texture image into hypertext. This allows you to display custom logos or animated image sequences into On-Screen Display
- Added defaults override tags support. The tags are aimed to be used in pairs, to start and stop defaults override blocks inside the hypertext. The first tag starts the block, stores default hypertext formatting attributes (text color, size and so on) and saves currently applied hypertext formatting attributes as new defaults. This way user defined defaults are being applied with default text color or size tags inside defaults override block. The next tag ends the block and restores previously saved default hypertext formatting attributes
- Changed embedded object size interpretation. Now positive size values are treated as zoomed pixels instead of fixed pixels
Added new type of plugins: client plugins. RivaTuner Statistics Server is designed to act as a server process, which is running passively and providing different functionality (On-Screen Display rendering, screen and video capture, benchmarking etc) to multiple client applications connected to it (e.g. MSI Afterburner). GUI for such functionality is normally located at client application side. New client plugins allow integrating GUI for such functionality directly into RivaTuner Statistics Server, without the need to run additional client applications, so new client plugins architecture is intended for those who prefer to use RivaTuner Statistics Server as a standalone solution without MSI Afterburner. SDK is now including the following open source client plugins:
- HotkeyHandler plugin is a built in hotkey processor, which is providing and demonstrating implementation of the following functionality:
  - Low-latency DirectInput based hotkey handler, similar to MSI Afterburner’s internal one
  - Full set of standard hotkey based functionality, available in MSI Afterburner client and based on RivaTuner Statistics Server API. This includes On-Screen Display visibility control, framerate limiter activation/deactivation, screen capture, video capture and benchmarking functionality. Now all those features can be also used in standalone RivaTuner Statistics Server usage scenario
  - Up to 4 additional general-purpose programmable profile modifier hotkeys. You may bind almost any profile modification related actions to those hotkeys, e.g. increase of decrease framerate limit, toggle between multiple predefined framerate limits, increase or decrease scanline index for scanline sync mode, zoom OSD in/out, enable or disable global hooks and many more
- OverlayEditor plugin is advanced visual hypertext editor, providing you more than any currently existing overlay can do. There were a lot of fair and independent commercial overlay reviews recently, claiming that it is absolutely impossible to develop visual overlay editing in free applications and that feature wise all free overlays are second tier products comparing to commercial ones. We decided to take it as a challenge, burst that marketing bubble and provide the plugin with such functionality free of charge to anyone who still believes in free system software distribution principles like us. So this plugin was developed from scratch in just a few weeks. It comes with fully open source code included in SDK, so you can peek inside and improve it or just see if such kind of functionality is really a rocket science development:
  - Unified and extremely flexible overlay layout editing GUI, which can be used in combo with any major and most popular hardware monitoring cores available on the market: HwINFO64, AIDA64 or MSI Afterburner. Wish to attach something else, e.g. GPU-Z? Not a problem, it can be easily done by any beginner developer in just a few hours because the plugin is completely open source. Your overlay layout can be easily adapted to any hardware monitoring data provider application and it will look exactly the same and stay exactly the same feature rich. With such modular architecture overlay rendering and editing application is completely decoupled from hardware monitoring core so it is extremely easy to troubleshoot hardware monitoring related compatibility issues and switch to a different hardware monitoring data provider application. Such modular architecture is a pro, not a con
  - The plugin provides internal data sources, which are measured by RivaTuner Statistics Server itself (e.g. framerate, frametime, minimum/maximum/average/1%/0.1% low framerates for benchmark mode). Such data sources can be used in overlay layout as is, without running any additional hardware monitoring data provider application in background. In addition to that the plugin also provides a few internal CPU/RAM related data sources, which come directly from OS performance counters and which do not require polling hardware either directly or via vendor specific APIs. Such data sources have zero chances to affect hardware compatibility or reduce performance, so they don’t break our main principle of decoupling overlay from hardware monitoring application
  - The plugin provides internal ping monitoring data source, implementation is a direct clone of MSI Afterburner’s ping monitoring plugin. Ping monitoring is not natively available in HwINFO64 or AIDA64, so this internal data source is aimed to help those who plan to use this plugin without MSI Afterburner in combo with HwINFO64 or AIDA64
  - The plugin provides MSI Afterburner styled correction formulas for all external data sources. Which means that you can transform data received from external hardware monitoring data provider applications in any form, for example convert memory usage from megabytes to gigabytes and many more
  - The plugin provides layer based overlay layout representation, which is typical for graphics editors. Such architecture suits best for creating more complex and artistic On-Screen Display layouts, but requires a bit more time and efforts
  - Each layer is independently formatted and positioned hypertext block, which can display both static and dynamic hypertext. In addition to standard customization of each layer’s hypertext formatting attributes (text and background color, font size, subscript or superscript text size, text alignment etc), you can also embed the following objects directly into hypertext of each layer:
    - Rich set of different macro definitions, displaying system time in different formats, programmable timers, your PC hardware specs and of course current values of internal plugin data sources (e.g. framerate or frametime) of external data sources exported from different hardware monitoring applications (e.g. GPU temperature exported from MSI Afterburner)
    - Traditional, diagram or barchart styled graphs attached to any data source, either internal or external one
    - Static images, displaying your hardware manufacturer logos and so in
    - Dynamic animated images, changing depending on data source connected to animation input. This way you can create absolutely uniquely looking graphics indicators in your overlay layouts, e.g. round progress indicators, gauges etc
    - You’re not limited to embed just a single object per layer. This means that for example you may create a layer containing all CPU load barchart graphs and make them share the same settings template, which makes it much easier to modify such overlay layouts
    - Complete freedom of choice, you can still customize On-Screen Display layout via built-in GUI of MSI Afterburner, HwINFO64 or AIDA64. Use new plugin only if you need it and wish to create something more complex than native MSI Afterburner or HwINFO64 On-Screen Display layout
Updated hardware encoding plugins:
- All hardware encoding plugins are using new host localization API, so all plugins support multilanguage settings GUI
- Updated Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder plugin. Now you may manually select target display device in the plugin’s settings. Please take a note that manual device selection can be required on Intel DCH drivers to address problems with wrong automatic Intel iGPU device selection, which could prevent the encoder from working properly
Added alternate and user configurable CPU yielding implementation to busy wait loops used in both framerate limiter and scanline sync implementations. Alternate CPU yielding implementation is used by default now, it can improve previously existing and close to ideal framepacing accuracy even further under heavy CPU load conditions due to minimizing context switching related timing penalties
Updated profiles list