MSI Afterburner

What is new in this release:

• Minimum, average, maximum, 1% low and 0.1% low framerates are now displayed in On-Screen Display with special text formatting tags introduced by new RivaTuner Statistics Server. The tags are allowing On-Screen Display clients to display independent benchmark statistics simultaneously for multiple running 3D applications instead of displaying foreground 3D application statistics only
• Improved default MSI Cyborg White skin. Monochrome on / off states of fan speed auto button were hardly identifiable before, they are more contrast now 
• Added power user oriented restore points system. Experienced users may use new /backup and /restore command line switches to create multiple named restore points containing full backups of MSI Afterburner’s settings (including hardware profiles and custom hardware monitoring plugin configurations) and restore settings from any previously created restore point if necessary
• Improved hardware monitoring module

What is new in version 4.2.0:

• Added AMD Fiji graphics processors family support.
• Hardware abstraction layer architecture has been revamped to allow implementation of voltage control via direct access to GPU ondie voltage controllers.
• Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R9 Fury / Nano series cards with on-die SMC voltage controller.
• Added unofficial overclocking support for PowerPlay7 capable graphics cards.
• Added version detection for AMD Radeon Software Crimson edition.
• GPU usage monitoring filtering algorithms, aimed to filter GPU usage monitoring artifacts in AMD ADL API on AMD Sea Islands GPU family are now disabled by default.
• Temperature monitoring for AMD Family 10h – 16h micro architecture CPUs is no longer experimental. Now thermal monitoring on such CPUs is unlocked by default.
• Slightly altered VRAM usage monitoring implementation for AMD and Intel graphics cards.

What is new in version 4.1.1:

• Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN X series graphics cards
• Added core voltage control for reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti series graphics cards
• Now core voltage control via NCP4206 is unlocked on reference design NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 and
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN series graphics cards when extended MSI voltage control mode is selected
• Added new third party voltage control mode.
• Fixed bug causing application to crash when “layered with alpha” skin composition mode is selected, application is minimized to system tray and properties are accessed via the context menu of detached monitoring window
• Improved hardware monitoring module.
• Improved skin engine.
• Multimedia timer resolution is no longer hardcoded to 10ms.
• Updated kernel mode driver provides new IOCTLs for safe access to PCI bus required for temperature monitoring on AMD CPUs.

What is new in version 4.0:

• Added MSI R9 280 series voltage control support
• Added AMD Tonga graphics processors family support
• Added core voltage control for reference design AMD RADEON R9 285X series graphics cards with NCP81022 voltage regulators
• Added official overclocking limits extension support for AMD Tonga graphics processors. Please take a note that unofficial overclocking mode is currently not supported for AMD Tonga graphics processors family. 
• Various parts of hardware monitoring module have been pumped up to improve hardware monitoring usability and flexibility.
• Added “Enable low-level IO driver” option to the “Compatibility properties” section in “General” tab
• Added SLI sync performance limit graph for release 340 and newer NVIDIA drivers
• Display device enumeration implementation has been modified slightly to allow monitoring Intel iGPUs when low-level IO driver is not enabled
• Improved handshaking algorithm reduces the risk of seeing multiple running instances of child processes (e.g. RTSS)
• Optimized hardware polling for NVIDIA graphics cards