Overclocking and monitoring of video card with MSI Afterburner 4.1.0

New GUI for Afterburner, software that allows you to monitor the operation of your video card AMD or NVIDIA as well as to intervene to change the main operating parameters. It is available for download the version 4.1.0 of MSI Afterburner, popular software for real-time monitoring of the main operating parameters of your card as well as to intervene by the operating system to change clock frequencies of the GPU and memory, along with the supply voltages.

This tool turns out to be very practical even when we want to intervene to change the speed of rotation of the fan, by configuring specific intervals of intervention as a function of the temperature reached by the chip saw.

Although it was developed by MSI, This software is compatible with video cards produced by various manufacturers, such as AMD GPU-based NVIDIA. Full support of the various functions depends on the type of GPU adopted but in general with all models are available advanced controls.

The main novelty of this version is represented by the graphical interface, completely redesigned the original than the approach of this software remained unchanged for a long time. The download of the new version is available at this address; below are listed the notes with the innovations implemented in this release.

1. Improved skin browser:

• Now “User interface” tab open immediately without waiting for processing of all installed skin files, which can be time consuming if you have a lot of skin files. The list of installed skins is now being populated in separate background thread
  Added precaching for skin preview images. Skin files are no longer being accessed when switching between skins in the browser.
• Improved skin rendering performance for layered skin composition mode with alpha channel.
• Improved rendering performance for skins using animated indicators (e.g. animated profile save indicator in default MSI Afterburner skin).
• Added backbuffering support to skinned windows to simplify implementation of various framebuffer processing related effects (e.g. skin scaling).
• Vector indicators are now being rendered via GDI+ to provide improved antialiasing and rendering performance.
• Added support for obfuscated USF format, which is represented by some unfair competitors as 100% in-house development. Now you can use MSI Afterburner’s built-in skin decompiler to analyze source code of such skin files
  Added skins scaling support. The scaling may improves the appearance of some small third party skins on high resolution monitors. Please take a note that upscaling may reduce the performance a bit

2. Brand new user interface skins by Drerex Design. New skins use improved skin format introduced in the previous version of MSI Afterburner skin compiler, which reduces each compiled skin size by factor of 10 on average. Legacy MSI Afterburner v2 and v3 skinswere also recompiled in new format and included in distributive for those who prefer old-style user interface Improved hardware monitoring module, new robust hardware monitoring features have been ported from original RivaTuner guru3d hardware monitoring module:

• Added integrated viewer for native RivaTuner Hardware Monitoring Log (*.HML) files. Now you can view hardware monitoring history stored in HML files either by pressing “View” button in “Monitoring” tab or directly open HML files via Windows explorer.
• Added custom tracking markers support. Now you can hold <Alt> key while clicking hardware monitor window to set up to 8 custom tracking markers in desired positions.
• Now you can customize graph color in layered mode via double clicking color legend box on the graph.
• Now tracking markers display current values for all graphs in layered mode instead of active graph only Improved graphs resizing implementation for attached hardware monitor window.

3. Improved skin cross-compatibility layer:

• Extended list of applications supported by skin cross-compatibility layer. Now MSI Afterburner supports USF skins created for any version of third party overclocking tools starting from minimalist oldschool skins from GeForce 200 series overclocking era and ending by obfuscated USF skins used in modern overclocking tools.
• Added support for 10 profile slots in skin cross-compatibility mode.
• Now it is possible to open advanced settings window with <Ctrl> + <S> keyboard shortcut to provide compatibility with third party skins having no dedicated button for accessing advanced settings window.
• Now it is possible to open info window with <Ctrl> + <I> keyboard shortcut to provide compatibility with third party skins having no dedicated button for accessing info window.

4. Added configuration file switch allowing power users to invert colors in text mode for Logitech keyboard LCD displays.

5. Added silent installation scenario support.

6. Ukrainian localization has been seriously revamped.

7. RivaTuner Statistics Server has been upgraded to v6.3.0