Monitor and overclock your graphics card in order to increase its performance, reduce heating or enable/disable specific function when running the system and launching gaming applications. The utility provides a detailed overview of your hardware and features benchmarking and video recording options.
MSI Afterburner is an overclocking utility developed for Windows. With its help, you can push your graphics card harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go.
Besides overclocking your graphics card, this program also provides you with hardware information, lets you modify your fan profiles, and brings you benchmarking capabilities.
In addition, you have access to a wide range of useful tips which might compensate the fact that the utility lacks an integrated help manual.
The only thing you need to consider is the fact that it's not suitable for beginner PC users. Altering some of the default settings (for example, changing the fan speed) the wrong way might cause some serious hardware issues. So, make sure you're aware of the things this program can do and how to make use of its features effectively.
Briefly, MSI Afterburner is one of the most popular overclocking tools developed for Windows PCs. It brings you many advantages, works 100%, and comes without a price. So, you should definitely give it a shot, especially if you're familiar with the overclocking and benchmarking terms.
v2.3 [Nov 20, 2012]
Added 9-bit VID support for CHL8318 voltage regulators to bypass 1.6V limit in Extreme versions of MSI Afterburner
Fixed rounding error in VID generation for offset voltage control mode for CHL8318 voltage generators
Now it is possible to start MSI Afterburner in limited functionality mode on the systems with no supported AMD or NVIDIA graphics card. This allows you to use hardware independent features like high-performance Predator™ video capture module on any PC, even if it is using integrated Intel graphics
Added frametime graph to hardware monitoring module. The graph is displaying the maximum frame time on each sampling period and it is useful for detecting microstutters, which are invisible on averaged framerate graph.
All documentation is now provided in PDF format
Added unified videomemory usage monitoring implementation for Windows 8
Removed obsolete GPU type selection settings for some AMD graphics cards
Removed obsolete shader clock monitoring for NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards
Improved hardware database format, now custom design MSI graphics cards are calibrated in separate OEM file to minimize the risk of introducing typos in reference design cards definitions when updating the database
MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.4.0. New version gives you the following major improvements in Predator™ video capture module:
Improved RTV1 compression algorithm. New compression approach combines DXTC, RLE and uncompressed data saving algorithms and allows you to increase image quality at the cost of decreasing compression ratio, while keeping extremely fast compression performance. Please take a note that the previous RTV1 compression implementation is equal to the lowest possible 25% image quality/compression ratio balance in new implementation
Added 64-bit version of RivaTuner Video Codec. Now RTV1 videos are playable and editable in 64-bit applications (e.g. 64-bit Sony Vegas PRO or Adobe Premiere PRO CS6)
Huffman tables are no longer omitted by MJPG encoder to improve compatibility with applications using limited MJPG decoders (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO)
Now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RivaTuner Video Codec can optionally decode MJPG videos. Third party MJPG codec installation is no longer required to play or edit MJPG videos with omitted Huffman tables in some applications with limited MJPG decoding support (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO). MJPG decoder can be enabled in video capture compatibility properties
Multisource audio recording. Now it is possible to record audio from two independent audio sources (e.g. game audio and microphone sound) in two independent audio tracks then mix them later in video editing application (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO) or optionally mix multiple tracks in realtime during capture
Now it is possible to downmix multichannel audio to stereo in stereo rip and stereo mix modes. Previously available stereo rip mode simply rips front left and right audio channels from multichannel audio stream, whilst new stereo mix mode merges audio from front left, right, center and surround channels
WASAPI audio packets with timestamp error are no longer included into output audio stream
External VFW codecs support. Now in addition to built-in uncompressed, RTV1 and MJPG encoders it is also possible to encode video using external VFW codecs installed in the system. It is recommended to download, install and use Lagarith Lossless Codec for lossless video capturing or x264vfw codec for the maximum compression ratio, MSI Afterburner was developed to provide the best compatibility with these codecs
Video stream synchronization is now based on inserting NULL frames instead of indexing existing frames
Frame dropping implementation has been improved to provide compatibility with external VFW codecs using temporal compression and deltaframes
Now output video dimensions are always cropped to be multiples of 2 to provide compatibility with external VFW codecs
Now framerate is calculated on each frame with sliding 1000ms window approach instead of calculating it once per second
Improved rendering pipeline flushing implementation for Direct3D9 applications provides more stable framerate when capturing videos with VSync enabled
New dynamic Direct3D rendering pipeline flushing approach can decrease videocapture related performance hit when capturing videos in Direct3D applications with high rendering framerates
Added On-Screen Display support for Direct3D 10 applications in Windows 8
Added German localization
Updated profiles list
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