Afterburner 1.5.0 Beta 2 (2009-12-09)

Np, glad that you've got it working

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I'd like to see some statistics on GPU usage monitoring for different GPUs. NVIDIA don't document which GPUs are supported by their new API allowing to display GPU usage, it work for sure on all GT2xx architecture chips like we declared, however I'm not sure about older GPUs support. I know for sure that it doesn't seem to work on G80 and older chips, however I'm not sure about the rest G8x and G9x families. So feedback from G8x and G9x GPU owners is really wanted. Do you see GPU usage in Afterburner?

 

Worked fine where? A few weeks ago there were no third party tools displaying GPU usage on NVIDIA cards. It could be only done by installing instrumented NVIDIA drivers (dedicated for 3D games developers) and by installing NVPerfHud (NVIDIA Performance profiling environment). Public and universal NVIDIA GPU usage monitor API was added to NVIDIA drivers not so far, the only tools supported it for now are MSI Afterburner 1.5.0, GPU-Z 3.8.0, RivaTuner 2.25 and EVGA Precision 1.9.0 (these two are not even publicly available yet).

 

Thanks! Proofreading feedback from anyone else talking in Spanish is greatly welcome.

 

Nope, nothing special is needed. Just copy the folder to .\Localization and it should work.

 

Thanks, but no need to post G80 results, I know for sure and mentioned above that these chips are not supported. Feedback for newer G8x and G9x wanted.

 

Not similar, I'd say almost the same. Both Precision and Afterburner are different GUIs for the same RivaTuner core libraries. Some time ago there even were some plans to unlock ATI support in EVGA Precision just to attract some users from team Red to EVGA products and brand.

v1.2.0 and older versions used AMD driver to read fan speed. We completely got rid of it because AMD's implementation was DEADLY SLOW and caused serious stuttering in games, which is absolutely not acceptable for realtime monitoring. v1.3.0 and newer displays fan speed via direct access to RV870 on-die fan controller. If it doesn't reflect the changes, it can only mean that 5970 uses alternate fan controller chip. Don't think that we'll add low-level support just for it, sorry. The issue could be resolved if AMD provide normal and effecting fan speed monitoring like NVIDIA does. However, AMD is AMD, I have zero hopes on their software team unfortunatley.

Also the result of AMD's ULPS (ultra-low power state) power saving technique invisible to low-level monitoring. AMD don't wish to provide low-level approach allowing third party drivers to ee if chip is sleeping and insist on using Catalysy driver API only, and doing so results in numerous "Why my system slows down drastically when Afterburner is running in background?" postings here. So we'll never go back to way used in v1.2.0 and older. Punishing 99% of single GPU users because of 1% of Crossfire users sounds insane.

Must be so, you cannot expect to get exact 1mv adjustments. It is hardware, it cannot generate any value you wish, VT1165 voltage adjustment step is 12.5mV.

So summarizing, issues 1 and 2 can be potentially addressed in future if ATI start coding their driver properly (really big doubts in that). And issue 3 is not issue.

 

Yes, sure. Translators for any languages besides English/Russian/Chinese/Spanish are really needed.