MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 14 Download - Guru3D and MSI have been working hard on AfterBurner, today we release an updated this Beta revision of Afterburner, this application successfully secured the leading position on graphics card utilities. This new revision adds many new stuff, including preliminary beta H.264 Intel Quicksync Hardware Encoding support.

Today we release an updated Beta revision of Afterburner, this application successfully secured the leading position on graphics card utilities. We're happy to see MSI Afterburner is leading the overclock applications. MSI Afterburner is ready, this version also supports the control of NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan, 760, 770 and 780. If you get the card, you may want to try it.

Change list:

Add MSI new card supported
Added NCP4206 voltage regulators support to provide compatibility with future custom design MSI graphics cards
Improved voltage control layer architecture provides better compatibility with automatic voltage control on NCP4206 voltage
regulators
RivaTuner Statistics Server updated to version 5.3.0 with the following improvements:
Added external encoding plugin modules support. Plugin modules architecture provides an easy way to implement different hardware accelerated video encoders in RivaTuner Statistics Server.
Added benchmark mode for external encoding plugin modules. Benchmark mode allows you to verify if hardware encoder is configured and working properly as well as estimate expected hardware encoding performance.
Added external QSV.DLL encoding plugin. The plugin provides you high-performance hardware accelerated H.264 encoding on Intel QuickSync Video capable platforms. Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder is able to compress 1080p video at 60 FPS with no major CPU performance hit. Hardware accelerated Intel QuickSync H.264 encoder was introduced special to compete with NVIDIA’s ShadowPlay hardware accelerated H.264 encoder. Free hardware accelerated H.264 video capture and encoding is no longer an exclusive selling point of NVIDIA Kepler GPU family, now the same functionality is available on much wider range of hardware platforms on both AMD and NVIDIA GPU based graphics cards absolutely for free!
Tweaked encoder queue depth. The queue depth is no longer hardcoded to 32 frames, now it is equal to recording framerate
Decreased server startup time on OS versions with no any service pack version installed
Improved function offsets cache validation algorithm in hooking system
Added proxy Direct3D library protection system. Now RivaTuner Statistics Server forcibly disables application hooking and blocks OSD, screen capture and video recording functionality if application is running via the proxy Direct3D runtime library (various game mods based on hacked D3D DLLs). Compatibility with most of such applications can still be improved by enabling custom Direct3D runtime libraries support in the application profile

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Did we skip beta 13?

Blimey so many new versions of afterburner recently. Cheers scotty.

thanks for the heads up, will have a play and see if 7990 voltage support is any better.

It's just a pity Afterburner doesn't support voltage control on the Asus Matrix Platinums.

Gputweak from asus is ok

Just downloaded and installed, sounds like a great update but when recording videos with the external quicksync plugin i get sound and just a black screen.

tried in dx9 and dx11 games and play back through VLC and MPC. Any suggestions?

Well, we now know what regulators are used on the 780 lightning

Seems ok with my 7990, voltages on both cores seem to be sticking 1st time now.

Working good with my 770 Lightnings.

Cool stuff, thanks for the post whyscotty. Here some info which might help some, as I happened to look into QSV encoding today and noticed this thread

By default when using a discrete GPU your iGPU graphics will be disabled, and that disables the QSV encoding as well. There are some solutions to this though:

- Some may have a Lucid Virtu license with their board (or you could get one yourself, a trial is available too) ... this would enable the iGPU along with the dGPU, and enable QSV ... reading mixed opinions on the software though, driver issues, game compatibility, etc.
- For Win 7, if you have two connections on your monitor, you could connect it to both the iGPU and the dGPU ... that should allow you to enable the iGPU.
- Win 8 supports headless GPU's: all you need to do is enable "iGPU multi display support" in your UEFI (or BIOS, if that option is available there). Install the drivers if you haven't already, and you're done. This is what I did today, and it enabled the use of QSV for me.

QSV isn't the best quality (there is limited contol over the output, software encoders offer you much more control over quality) but it's free encoding, doesn't take CPU cycles or GPU cycles, and it's pretty darn fast.

got video working cheers,

anybosy else not able to screen capture now? tried changing format, directory and hotkey and still nothing.

i get the little swirl like you do when capturing video but no screen caps in the directory

LtMatt said:

Did we skip beta 13?

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