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Afterburner Overlay

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Is there anyway to move the afterburner overlay around? I've looked around a bit but can't seem to move the columns.

Here's how i have it setup at the moment.

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I'm using HWINFO to add the cpu temps.

The problem i have though is whenever i select frame times monitoring in afterburner it puts a space between the VRM temps and the fps/frame time. If i remove the frame time the space is removed and everything is bunched up together as i want it.

Is there anyway to get it in order?
 
I genuinely have no idea what you're asking, I'm rough today.

But you can group and rename things if you wish i.e 'override group name' on things to group then as you need.

example: override the group name on gpu1 temp (GPU1) and gpu2 temp (GPU2) to "GPU TEMPS" and they will appear as their own row in the OSD as "GPU TEMPS: 30c, 30c" etc.

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I guess that's a useful tip for anyone.. my OSD (on my g19 keyboard) looks like this:

CORETEMP: 26C, 24C
MEMTEMP:27C, 28C
VRMTEMP: 31C, 33C
USAGE: 3%, 0%
CORECLOK: 324MHz, 324MHz
MEMCLOCK: 324MHz, 324MHz
MEMUSAGE: 275MB

Didn't know you could add cpu temps.. hmm I may do that, although I'm close to running out of space of the screen.
 
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You can move the entire text to anywhere on the screen you want.

Bottom left of your screen on the icons thing with your internet icon etc....click on the on screen display icon for afterburner and it will bring the menu up to change the overlay.

You will see a screen on the menu, this is where you can change the position, you can either use the buttons below the screen to fine tune where to have the text or click in each of the corners and it will auto set the text to that corner.

Can also change the color of the text via the On-Screen Display Palette.

Dunno about getting rid of the space ;p
 
I genuinely have no idea what you're asking, I'm rough today.

But you can group and rename things if you wish i.e 'override group name' on things to group then as you need.

example: override the group name on gpu1 temp (GPU1) and gpu2 temp (GPU2) to "GPU TEMPS" and they will appear as their own row in the OSD as "GPU TEMPS: 30c, 30c" etc.

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I guess that's a useful tip for anyone.. my OSD (on my g19 keyboard) looks like this:

CORETEMP: 26C, 24C
MEMTEMP:27C, 28C
VRMTEMP: 31C, 33C
USAGE: 3%, 0%
CORECLOK: 324MHz, 324MHz
MEMCLOCK: 324MHz, 324MHz
MEMUSAGE: 275MB

Didn't know you could add cpu temps.. hmm I may do that, although I'm close to running out of space of the screen.

You can move the entire text to anywhere on the screen you want.

Bottom left of your screen on the icons thing with your internet icon etc....click on the on screen display icon for afterburner and it will bring the menu up to change the overlay.

You will see a screen on the menu, this is where you can change the position, you can either use the buttons below the screen to fine tune where to have the text or click in each of the corners and it will auto set the text to that corner.

Can also change the color of the text via the On-Screen Display Palette.

Dunno about getting rid of the space ;p

Thanks guys.

That sounds like a very organised way of doing it Lang ill try that now. I need to get rid of that space. :p
 
Also, my framerate monitoring always appears at the bottom of the list too. Try disabling the framerate monitoring (entire thing not just frame times) and then re-enabling it and see if it appears at the bottom of the list instead. The space won't matter then.
 
I tried your suggestion Lang, disabling and then enabling frame time but no dice. I still have a space there, but its looking a bit smarter now.

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Any more suggestions?

Override group name is greyed out as well for FPS and Frame time.
 
yea you can't override framerate as it has an application dependant name. i.e for dx9 games it shows 'd3d9:'

are those vrm temps from your gpu or 'cpu'? if cpu/mobo i guess hwinfo is hooking on after everything else and putting it at the bottom.

Afterburner has an official forum where you could raise this.
 
Those are GPU vrm temps.

Yeah think im out of ideas now, ill post it on hwinfo/afterburner forum when i can be bothered. :p

Now i need to decide what to do, lose the fps/frame time or put up with a space. Decisions decisions. :D

EDIT

This is as smart as i can get it.

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Thanks for the link and i got it working but i am having some small issue which will annoy me over time but it there any way of getting rid of the : , after the cpu to match it up to the rest of the overlay?

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Thanks for the link and i got it working but i am having some small issue which will annoy me over time but it there any way of getting rid of the : , after the cpu to match it up to the rest of the overlay?

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You can change the name, you can even put blank spaces so it all aligns correctly, you can remove the ,.

However you cannot remove the : im afraid.

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This is how i have mine

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Why dont you just install GPU-z have that run in the background and just have your FPS on screen?
I use Dxtory and it's on screen FPS counter, I then leave GPU-z running in background.
If I need to see the temps min/max/avg I can just alt/tab or see when I have finished that game.

Having all that on screen would do my head in lol
 
Question
Why dont you just install GPU-z have that run in the background and just have your FPS on screen?
I use Dxtory and it's on screen FPS counter, I then leave GPU-z running in background.
If I need to see the temps min/max/avg I can just alt/tab or see when I have finished that game.

Having all that on screen would do my head in lol

Ahh young shankly, a true warrior assigns an overlay enable/disable key (in afterburner) so that one may hidethe overlay if so desired. ;)

Ahh young shankly, a true warrior

Sorry, been playing a lot of sleeping dogs recently. :p
 
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