MSI Afterburner 1.5.0 Final Released

MSI is happy to release Afterburner 1.5.0. Staring from revision 1.4.0, we add TONS of features. There is NO doubt that Afterburner is most powerful graphics card utility from any AIB manufacturer. Below is some key feature highlights and changes:

• More over-voltage support: We add more and more SKU supporting over-voltage function. In our plan, MSI N240 and R5570 series above will support this exclusive function. You want higher performance, buy MSI!
• Kombustor: We add a standalone benchmark tool "Kombustor" as part of Afterburner. Now you can overclock, monitor and benchmark is one tool!

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Changelog

• Added video memory usage monitoring for NVIDIA graphics cards under Forceware
  185.xx and newer drivers
• Added GPU usage monitoring for NVIDIA GT2xx and newer graphics cards under
  Forceware 185.xx and newer drivers
• Added VGA BIOS version detection for AMD graphics cards
• Added optional ability to display hint messages in hardware monitoring window
  area. The messages notify the user about runtime profile management activity
  (such as profile creation, removal or applying) and other application events
• Minor appearance tweaks in default skins
• Added compact versions of default skins (default green, red and blue editions)
• Now advanced MSI Afterburner properties also support floating tooltip based
  context help system similar to the main application window
• Now MSI Afterburner supports RivaTuner's user extendable localization system.
  Currently localization system includes default English, Russian, Traditional
  Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Dutch language packs and affects context help
  system and non-skinned advanced properties interface. Similar to RivaTuner
  you can also create your own language packs for your native language and
  share your work with MSI Afterburner users community!
• Improved skin format. Now skinned fonts support characters remapping feature.
  All skins supplied with MSI Afterburner are using this feature, third party
  skin designers may decompile and peek into these skins to see an example of
  new feature usage
• Now hardware monitoring window font size can be redefined via the skin, third
  party skin designers may decompile and peek into compact versions of default
  skins to see an example of new feature usage
• Skin format reference documentation has been updated to v1.1 to reflect the
  format improvements mentioned above
• Added shared memory interface allowing any third party applications to access
  MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring statistics. The interface is intended for
  future MSI Afterburner Vista / Windows 7 sidebar gadgets, however, the shared
  memory layout is publicly open so third party developers can use it to access
  MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring statistics from their own applications.
  The SDK included in MSI Afterburner distributive contains open source sample
  demonstrating the access to shared memory from a third party application
• Added command line switches for forcing MSI Afterburner to be minimized to the
  system tray area on startup or during runtime and for opening desired advanced
  MSI Afterburner properties tab. The switches are intended for interraction
  with future MSI Afterburner Vista / Windows 7 sidebar gadgets. Sample code
  included in the SDK also shows you how to detect, start and minimize installed
  MSI Afterburner, how to open desired tab in advanced properties and how to use
  MSI Afterburner profiles from third party applications
• Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage
  unloading
• Startup settings are now displayed next to the <Apply overclocking at system
  startup> button
• Added button for locking profiles modification
• Now voltage control is also locked by default in safety options in advanced
  MSI Afterburner properties
• Added AccessibilityCheckingPeriod configuration file switch for improving the
  compatibility with AMD ULPS power saving technology on Crossfire systems. The
  switch allows low-level monitoring module to use AMD driver API to check GPU
  accessibility and detect and display GPU sleep state properly. Please take a
  note that AMD API implementation is ineffective and hardly suits to realtime
  monitoring due to high CPU stress resulting in periodic stuttering in games.
  That is why the compatibility switch is disabled by default, enable it only
  if you absolutely need to see slave GPU sleep state on the graphs and accept
  side effects like performance drop and stuttering resulting from ineffective
  AMD API implementation
• Added NVIDIA GT240M PCI DeviceID range to the core to provide more efficient
  hardware monitoring via low-level core on mobile NVIDIA GT240 based systems
  (bonus feature, official mobile systems support is still not declared)
• Graph limits are now adjustable in the graph properties in <Monitoring> tab
• Added AMD RV810 graphics processors family supports
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5670 1GB series graphics cards
  with uP6262 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5870 Lightning series graphics
  cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5870 Twin Frozr II series
  graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5850 Twin Frozr II series
  graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
• Added integration with external MSI Kombustor stability testing application
• Added workaround for overclocking bug of ForceWare 196.21. Please take a note
  that the workaround is applied only to 196.00 - 196.21 driver versions range
  in order to ensure compatibility with future fixed NVIDIA drivers.
• Now hardware database includes marketing names of MSI graphics cards so MSI
  Afterburner displays marketing names instead of generic graphics card model
  names when possible