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MSI Afterburner frame rate counter.

Caporegime
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Hi,

Since Fraps supposedly causes lag I thought I would use Afterburner instead. Although I thought I had the right boxes checked I still can't see the display in game of the frame rate, nor the gpu usage or temp. I went to 'settings', 'monitoring', 'active hardware graphs' then 'show screen display'. What haven't I done correctly?

Ta. :)
 
Make sure that the monitoring graphs are ticked for the items you wish to monitor. Ensure that in the in same tab the 'Show in On-Screen Display' box is also ticked for each individual item ticked above.

By ticking the box under graph properties the 'Properties' column above will read 'in OSD'.
 
Can you confirm it looks like this:

Afterburner.png
 
Yup, but I would only expect the FPS to be visible on-screen. The others will be visible in your keyboard only.

As an aside, stunning clocks on that 480! Is it on air?

Stable? If so, hats off to you! :cool:
 
Yes, that is true. I usually don't have the OSD, just the LCD of my G13 showing everything.

And yes, those clocks are stable, but it's got a core-only waterblock on it. Just wish I could push the memory a bit further, but it's having none of it...
 
Thanks for the replies, and yes that is indeed an impressive overclock on that 480! :) I've had a brief go with overclocking mine while playing Stalker COP Complete, and had no problems with 850 on the core and 1950 on the memory. I don't think it made much difference though, probably because of being such a minor overclock, but at least I know I have been lucky with my SOC model, I feel sorry for those that have had problems. My Q6600 might play a part in bottlenecking with overclocking though I won't know until I look in to this further.

I can't see any difference apart from where I don't have the LCD property enabled, just the OCD for temp, usage and FPS.
 
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In which case (the LCD bits are irrelevant), check the icons bottom right, there should be an Afterburner symbol with a little 60 in one corner, like this:

Icon.png


If not, check your Afterburner installation for a 'Bundle' folder, which has the OSDServer folder inside. Run the RTSS application (so ...\Afterburner\Bundle\OSDServer\RTSS.exe), and from there on it should be fairly obvious.
 
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