Download: MSI Afterburner 4.6.2 Beta 1

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 05/06/2019 10:35 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

A few weeks ago we released MSI Afterburner 4.6.1 Final, as such, it is now time to start up a new chapter in development. Today we release MSI Afterburner 4.6.2 Beta 1. The new Beta is all about adding an improved Skin engine, animated skins even. For the aficionados, with the updated engine, as now also include a new Steampunk style skin.

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Unwinder
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#5666216 Posted on: 05/06/2019 12:12 PM

Please keep in mind the following things when using new Steampunked 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

gerardfraser
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#5666299 Posted on: 05/06/2019 04:40 PM

Love the new Steampunk skin with the skin scaling it is great.Of course MSI Afterburner is one of the must have tools for gamers.
Thanks for sharing and I hope some people actually read what Unwinder has asked but I am sure that noone will.

Amaze
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#5666378 Posted on: 05/06/2019 07:42 PM

Any chance you could add an option for a sound playing when you take a screenshot @Unwinder ?

Unwinder
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#5666393 Posted on: 05/06/2019 08:25 PM

No promises, but I’ll think about it.

Y0!
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#5666772 Posted on: 05/07/2019 11:29 PM

Hello, it cannot draw graphs in the DX9 mode, can it?

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