MSI Afterburner V2.3.0 disponibile per il download - [NEWS]

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MSI ha annunciato oggi la disponibilità della nuova versione 2.3.0 dell'utility Afterburner per l'overclock delle schede video.

Realizzato da MSI in collaborazione con il Team di sviluppo di RivaTuner, questo interessante tool consente agli utenti di tenere sotto controllo i principali parametri della propria scheda video e di intervenire sui voltaggi di GPU e memorie, oltre a variare la velocità di rotazione delle ventole.

Di seguito la lista di tutte le novità introdotte :

• Added new graphics cards support.
• Fixed rounding error in VID generation for offset voltage control mode for CHL8318 voltage generators

• Now it is possible to start MSI Afterburner in limited functionality mode on the systems with no supported AMD or NVIDIA graphics card. This allows you to use hardware independent features like high-performance Predator™ video capture module on any PC, even if it is using integrated Intel graphics
• Added frametime graph to hardware monitoring module. The graph is displaying the maximum frame time on each sampling period and it is useful for detecting microstutters, which are invisible on averaged framerate graph.
• All documentation is now provided in PDF format
• Added unified videomemory usage monitoring implementation for Windows 8
• Removed obsolete GPU type selection settings for some AMD graphics card
• Removed obsolete shader clock monitoring for NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards
• Improved hardware database format, now custom design MSI graphics cards are calibrated in separate OEM file to minimize the risk of introducing typos in reference design cards definitions when updating the database
• MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 4.4.0. New version gives you the following major improvements in Predator™ video capture module:
  • Improved RTV1 compression algorithm. New compression approach combines DXTC, RLE and uncompressed data saving algorithms and allows you to increase image quality at the cost of decreasing compression ratio, while keeping extremely fast compression performance. Please take a note that the previous RTV1 compression implementation is equal to the lowest possible 25% image quality/compression ratio balance in new implementation
  • Added 64-bit version of RivaTuner Video Codec. Now RTV1 videos are playable and editable in 64-bit applications (e.g. 64-bit Sony Vegas PRO or Adobe Premiere PRO CS6)
  • Huffman tables are no longer omitted by MJPG encoder to improve compatibility with applications using limited MJPG decoders (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO)
  • Now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RivaTuner Video Codec can optionally decode MJPG videos. Third party MJPG codec installation is no longer required to play or edit MJPG videos with omitted Huffman tables in some applications with limited MJPG decoding support (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO). MJPG decoder can be enabled in video capture compatibility properties
  • Multisource audio recording. Now it is possible to record audio from two independent audio sources (e.g. game audio and microphone sound) in two independent audio tracks then mix them later in video editing application (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO) or optionally mix multiple tracks in realtime during capture
  • Now it is possible to downmix multichannel audio to stereo in stereo rip and stereo mix modes. Previously available stereo rip mode simply rips front left and right audio channels from multichannel audio Stream, whilst new stereo mix mode merges audio from front left, right, center and surround channels
  • WASA Stream synchronization is now based on inserting NULL frames instead of indexing existing frames
  • Frame dropping implementation has been improved to provide compatibility with external VFW codecs using temporal compression and deltaframes
  • Now output video dimensions are always cropped to be multiples of 2 to provide compatibility with external VFW codecs
  • Now framerate is calculated on each frame with sliding 1000ms window approach instead of calculating it once per second
  • Improved rendering pipeline flushing implementation for Direct3D9 applications provides more stable framerate when capturing videos with VSync enabled
  • New dynamic Direct3D rendering pipeline flushing approach can decrease videocapture related performance hit when capturing videos in Direct3D applications with high rendering framerates
  • Added On-Screen Display support for Direct3D 10 applications in Windows 8
  • Added German localization
  • Updated profiles list

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[brugola.x]

come spesso accade l'ho ricevuto in anteprima in modo da poterlo testare qualche giorno e con questa release, a mio modo di vedere MSI Afterburner ha fatto un bel salto in avanti, molto lavoro è stato fatto per migliorare la qualità della cattura audio e video ed i risultati si vedono
per completezza di informazione vi riporto un post del produttore che raccomanda l'utilizzo di codec esterni per la codifica video..

Some recommendations on using external VFW codecs for video capture. My personal recommendation is nice free x264vfw codec, which can be downloaded here:

x264vfw - Browse Files at SourceForge.net

There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the codec available. You need 32-bit one only to capture video via MSI Afterburner, but you may additionally install 64-bit version of codec, if you need to edit videos compressed with it in 64-bit applications.



Is is recommended to use the following codec configuration:

1) Select "Ultrafast" preset
2) Set log level to "None"
3) Enable "Zero latency" option, otherwise audio and video str3ams may run out of sync

Testing video capture via external VFW codecs in MSI Afterburner v2.3.0. Realtime 1680x1050 H.264 encoding via x264vfw codec on Ultrafast preset




niente da dire, se non complimenti per Alexey, ottimo lavoro

[brugola.x]

vorrei invitare i possessori delle schede video 7970 GHz Edition a mettere attenzione nell'utilizzo di quest'ultima release di Afterburner.
Da quello che leggo in rete la versione 2.3.0 riconosce il regolatore di tensione della versione custom MSI 7970 Lightning e non è ben chiaro se sarà in grado di funzionare o meno con gli altri modelli della serie 7970, di fatto sembra che non tutte le GHz Edition risultino compatibili.

[brugola.x]

facciamo un pò di luce sulla questione che ho accennato nel post precedente riguardante la compatibilità della v.2.3.0 di Afterburner con le vga 7970
Unwinder says (Alexey Nicolaychuk aka Unwinder, RivaTuner creator)..

Just checked the latest changes in hardware database, added from MSI side to 2.3.0 distributive and I'm afraid that I've got bad news for those who own reference design 7970 GHz Edition cards.
The database defines any 7970 GHz Edition card as MSI custom design 7970 Lightning Boost Edition card, which means that Afterburner will search for Lightning specific voltage controller on any reference design 7970 GHz Edition card. As a result, voltage control will be available on true 7970 Lightning Boost Edition cards only.
I'm not sure if it is a typo or not. These changes make sense only if MSI ships 7970 Lightning Boost Edition cards with reference 7970 GHz Edition BIOS, but in this case voltage control for reference 7970 GHz Edition won't work in Afterburner at all.
I'll ask MSI to clarify those changes inside the database.

soluzione:

Small workaround: happily starting from this version the databases for reference design cards and custom desigh cards are stored in different files. So it is enough to delete MSIAfterburner.oem file to get rid of all custom MSI cards support including 7970 Lightning Boost Edition.

ecco il file in questione: