Possible ideas for future Afterburner functionality upgrades

Kinky!

 

Record Videos with more then 120fps.

At the moment i have to use Cheat engine to unlock the 120fps cap but its a little bit annoying.

I record my Videos in 200fps 1280x720.
So i have in a 1/4 slowmotion 50fps.

 

an Overhaul of the Settings Menue wouldn't be the worst idea
You cannot Resize it, and the scroll wheel in the mouse only switches the value directly under the mouse, you cannot scroll down the page.



But that's not really a problem... what really bothers me sometimes is that you cannot scroll trough the tabs with mouse wheel when you click on the first tab or hover over it.
Always need to aim carefully for the [>] button.
This might be something worthwile improving.... someday...

 

@Unwinder

could you please add the Driver version to the Screen/Video Capture Default naming convention ?

or make a checkbox

"Add Driver Version to Filename"

 

Any chance of MSI start to use AMD and nvidia HW enconding, like bandicam have.

The performance on there is really great.

 

It's been there for a while now.

Select "external plugin" for Video format.

Then in "...", select the type you want (Intel QuickSync/AMD VCE/Nvidia NVENC) and configure it to your liking.

 

Unwinder, could I suggest something for the a future release for you to consider please.

A 2nd fan curve plot. Activated by video player in FSE mode, or full screen windowed mode.

I watch a lot of video via my PC (WEB-DL TV shows and movies). I use Zoom player MAX, Lav Filters and MadVR renderer.

I have to have a slight overclock on my gpu to allow for when videos rendered via MadVR start to go into higher gpu usage, and need a different fan curve than my gaming curve. Having the options set for two and ways to trigger the 2nd via X or Y method (I don't understand the technical stuff here sorry)

MadVR with say its (NNEDI and SuperRes in tandem - image doubling and sharpening post processes ) can really tax the GPU and push the one Afterburner fan profile so that the GPU fans get noisy whilst watching these videos. And I find that my (set for gaming) fan profile does not work well for watching videos via my player (Zoom Player Max).

I was wondering if you could consider adding a tabbed second fan profile curve graph, and a way to trigger (switch) between fan curves. Such as detecting zoomplayer.exe or madvr running in full screen (FSE mode).


Personally I would find having a second fan curve specially for my taxing video playback would allow me to better manage fan noise from the computer when watching TV shows and movies via my PC video player and rendering via MadVR's image doubling and post processes. Some people double the images to upscale from 1080 to 4k on 4k screens. Others might upscale SD 4:3 video to 1080p and then sharlen it... this taxs ALL gpus.

Kind regards, Jonny


MadVR forum - contact: madshi


Zoom Player MAX forum - contact: ehathgepiurhe or bLight

Other players that use MadVR on PC are: MPC-HC or MPC-BE, and POT Player.

 

Haven't checked, but ove support was pulled in the cat 15.7's and it broke vce and app in just about every program that relied on it. So vce or app (whichever ab was using) probably isnt working.


Just a FYI it broke raptr, bandicam, playclaw, and action...so it probably broke ab as well unless it was using amf for vce and app.

 

Can confirm VCE seems to be missing from the list (using Catalyst 15.7). I use QuickSync and haven't been in the video settings since I updated Catalyst, so I hadn't noticed it earlier.

EDIT:

Now that I think about it, I remember thinking the list of components to be installed in Catalyst seemed shorter than before. This explains it.

Maybe you could get VCE working With Cat 15.7 by first installing the required components + VCE from an earlier version and then installing the latest Catalyst on top of that?

EDIT2:

Reading on AMD forums (thread "AMD VCE and driver Catalyst 15.7"), it seems at least Mirillis Action, Playclaw and Raptr have resolved the issue with an update, so it's not permanently broken - AMD just changed something in the implementation.

 

Yeah I am the one who notified everyone but Raptr about the issue, and told them the source of the problem. Bandicam just fixed it today, and D3DGear is working on the fix. The issue isn't that AMD forgot something. They had deprecated OpenEncode/OVEencode along time ago, but they just now removed it completely in 15.7 So now devs must use AMF. (jackun the dev of the OBS_VCE branch is the one who pinpointed the exact issue btw).

https://github.com/jackun/openencodevfw

post from over a year ago by AMD saying that they no longer support OpenEncode:

"Sorry for the delayed response. OpenEncode supports only a single reference frame. AMD does not support OVEncode any longer. We recommend that you use the latest Media SDK, which supports more than one reference frame."


http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn..../11/MediaSDK_AMF_ReferenceManual_1_1_Beta.pdf




Anyway, not sure if Unwinders contract allows him to fix it or if he has the time and resources to do so. Not sure how difficult of a fix it is, althoug it only took Mirrilis about 2 days, same with playclaw, took bandicam about 3 days. They might have the resources to make it happen. I understand Unwinder is only one guy, so I am not complaining. I just wanted to let him know about the issue, in case he wants to fix it.

 

Enjoy your vacation. Stay safe.

 

Hello! On Win 7/64. I am running a multi GPU rig consisting of 1 GTX Titan X (primary display GPU) and 6 GTX Titan Z cards (12 GPU cores, as each card is dual-core) as CUDA rendering compute devices. I use it for 3D rendering programs, such as 3DS Max, Cinema 4D, Octane Render, etc. Long story short, current MSI AfterBurner UI lets you live tweak settings for up to 8 GPU cores, but monitor greater than 8. I am looking to see if support could be added to allow the live tweaking control (fan, voltage, core clock, etc.) of including up to 13 GPU cores (1 X + 12 Z = 13 cores). Again, current 'GPU' tab lets you only view up to 8.



Additionally, when PC is booted with > 10 GPU display devices, program just does not work, and receive crash from Windows (crash details), about Afterburner:
Fault Module Name: RTHAL.dll
Fault Module Version: 2.8.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 555f5b0a
Exception Offset: 00032629
Exception Code: c0000409
Exception Data: 00000000

Thanks for any consideration. When rendering thousands of frames on an animation project, any small speed boost is HUGE

Regards!

 

Windows tablet monitoring

As well as having apps for IOS and Android it would be great to have one for Windows tablets as well seeing as they are getting more common. Phones as well.

 

So, I have a small UI gripe. Why are we restricted from interacting with the attached monitoring window while in the options menu? Allowing it would make for much more practical back and forth when setting up things like a custom fan curve

 

Here's my pie in the sky. Don't expect it will happen, but I thought I'd put it out there for consideration...

I'd like more than 2 audio streams for video capture.

Reason is, I'd like to separate my Mumble/Teamspeak audio output from my game audio output (and in addition have my mic recorded as 3rd stream). I have the necessary hardware to do it (mobo built-in + separate sound card, in order to have the audio go to different devices, and a hardware mixer where I can combine the output for my headphones).

 

some good ideas

 

Hi,

While I like AB much better than TriXX (such ugly interface), I have some
suggestions (sorry if already suggested):


1) GPU/VMR temperature alarm: allows user to set alarm temperature for GPU and VMR. Option whether sound alarm and/or auto reset OC to default.

2) Be able to hide (not just detach) the hardware monitor panel. Disable/pause monitor when hide. Unless an option to continue monitor when hide is selected; OR temperature alarm is enabled (1).

3) Have an extreme basic skin mode without any fancy graphics for both main and monitor windows/panel. Similar to GPU-Z --> very clean and very easy to see all sensor values quickly; and use less screen space. Funtional is better than look !!!

 

Thanks it is appreciated. Hope you had a good holiday/vacation.