ASUS GPU Tweak II Injects Ads Into Your Games?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 02/04/2019 11:18 AM | source: techpowerup | 38 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 11:39 AM

'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 11:57 AM

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

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

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

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#5635173 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:17 PM

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

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#5635174 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:19 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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#5635177 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:25 PM

Even better, don't use any 3rd party OC software or game overlays.

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#5635182 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:27 PM

"How to use Assault Rifles"
I hope that's not an Educational Video, as this game should have been tagged as "Fantasy Genre".

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#5635183 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:30 PM

"How to use Assault Rifles"
I hope that's not an Educational Video, as this game should have been tagged as "Fantasy Genre".

"Point the end with the open hole towards the people who's got red markers (not blue), because that's where the bullets come out!"
Yes, those videos are for people who seemingly have not been able or old enough these days to have played a Battlefield game, or a shooter at all.

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#5635187 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:37 PM

Is it just certain games? I upgraded to the latest a few weeks ago and have not seen any ads.

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#5635192 Posted on: 02/04/2019 12:44 PM

What about try first, then post a comment?

Dazz
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#5635203 Posted on: 02/04/2019 01:10 PM

I use Afterburner on my ASUS Strix 2080, never used GPUTweak

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#5635205 Posted on: 02/04/2019 01:21 PM

Who in the right mind thought this could pass? Jesus Christ...

rl66
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#5635214 Posted on: 02/04/2019 02:05 PM

Once i have installed Asus Suite and Asus GPU Tweak on a computer... i should have done anything exept that.
It is heavier, work bad, and is source of bug and on top of that is hard to uninstall completely.

With this new thing you know what you should avoid to use with Asus things (the hardware is great hopefully).

BLEH!
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#5635221 Posted on: 02/04/2019 02:30 PM

Or just use Afterburner for tweaking

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#5635231 Posted on: 02/04/2019 02:52 PM

Well.... never guying an ASUS product again. What is worse is how much data all these companies steal from us everyday with out us knowing. They make profits off our own ideas then sell them back to us.

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