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MSI Afterburner 1.5.0 Beta 1 (2009-12-8)

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MSI Afterburner 1.5.0 Beta 2 (2009-12-9)

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Unwinder said:
1. Compact Skin: some people love our default big skin, some people prefer compact one, so we include both starting from this version. everybody is happy, I hope.
2. Multi-Language: Unwinder already finish Russian language of Afterburner, and we can do Chinese version. We need YOUR help on other language, guess what? your excellent work will be included in final version of Afterburner.
3. NVIDIA GPU and VRAM usage: thanks for new NVIDIA API, now Afterburner can monitor NVIDIA GPU usage just like ATI one (NVIDIA GT2xx GPU based card is required) and videomemory usage (avaiable exclusively on NVIDIA graphics cards).

Download: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/images/MSIAfterburnerSetup150Beta2.rar

Please give us feedback now!!


  • - Added videomemory 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 190.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 English and Russian language packs and
  • affects the context help system and non-skinned advanced properties interface.
  • Similar to RivaTuner, you can 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.
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looks like it was taken down for some reason. Maybe someone could upload it to rapidshare or something.


Also unwinder said he won't include a stability test program because there's no single way to prove stability other than having it stable for the things you do basically.

Unwinder said:
single application / game / stress test can NEVER be used as 100% trustworthy overlcocking tester. There are only two 100% trustworthy overclocking testers, they are installed into two sockets in your head and called eyes. Software tools can be used as helpers, but NEVER as the final verdict giving tools.
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I've also found this to be the case as well which is why I never bother with stupid 12 hour priming and such anymore. A few LinX runs can be helpful, but if it doesn't crash doing what I am doing, then it's stable.
 
Apparently Unwinder has pulled the beta as he feels it's not quite ready for beta testing yet...says it will be available in a couple days.
 
TaKeN said:
BIOS Limit on the card surely? Something only a flash to another BIOS would fix I'd have thought.
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indeed you need msi or asus bios which are identical in every other way to other bios's but they have the ability to "unlock" your card full overclocking potential
 
a little off topic I guess but which unlocked bios do people recommend using? the MSI or the Asus one? or is there no difference other than the MSI allowing for ridiculous clocks :eek:
 
MSI also unlocks the memory clock, Asus only unlocks the core.

Sitting on 1000 / 1445 with the Asus bios makes me wish I had used the MSI instead.
 
Flashing the BIOS is somewhat risky, but I've never had a problem. If you brick your card then it's useful to have a spare card to boot off so you can flash the other bricked card.

The only way I can think of really screwing up is if for some reason the system does not boot at all with the card in.
 
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