ASUS GPU Tweak II Injects Ads Into Your Games?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/04/2019 12:18 PM | source: techpowerup | 36 comment(s)

Wowzers, so if you bought an ASUS graphics card then chances are there you've been using ASUS GPU Tweak II to enable that software OC operandus mode, or just use it for tweaking.

Well, at Reddit a thread just started with complaints that the software is now injecting ASUS advertisements into your game. If that posts is true, basically, GPU Tweak II has an overlay, much like AfterBurner uses to display OSD framerate monitoring, etc. However, some brilliant minds at ASUS figure, hey .. let's use that overlay to inject an ASUS advertisement. Have a peek at the following screenshot:

You can see that on the right there is an advertisement block promoting the latest RTX graphics cards. You need to disable it with a hotkey combination. It would not be the first time that ASUS is aggressive in injecting unwanted software and advertisements through their software. Let's hope that news posts like these will make more clear that it isn't acceptable. Also, I've seen just this one single report, it looks to be valid but I'll reserve a disclaimer in the hope this isn't a hoax.

Update: from what we are seeing as that this 'feature' indeed is present in the software, however not enabled by default.

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Turanis
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#5635155 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:39 PM

'You need to disable it with a hotkey combination'
Or blocking that Sob with firewall.

Sylencer
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#5635164 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:57 PM

Good thing that i swapped from gpu tweak to afterburner again.

icedman
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#5635171 Posted on: 02/04/2019 01:12 PM

Afterburner all the way I think I've tried every oc software out there and nothing comes close to afterburner imo.

GringoTM
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#5635173 Posted on: 02/04/2019 01:17 PM

....emm..... i pay 1699€ for an ASUS premium Card .... and i SEE the AD.....
....Is time to drop asus....

fantaskarsef
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#5635174 Posted on: 02/04/2019 01:19 PM

Since I learned that it's basically all the same, I'm also sticking to AB. This is really disgusting... I'd only expect such a behaviour from malware.

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