MSI Afterburner 3.0.0 Beta 14(2013-08-16)

I do understand the instructions. I'd just like to confirm that this voltage contol trick will not work with GTX680 even it has a NCP4206.

 

Hi guys.
Can you help me to understand if I am doing something wrong. I installed MSI 3.0.0 and the lates Rivertuner Statistic Server. When I start BF3 there is nothing on the screen. I mean my OSD is not showing anything.
Thanks in advance for your help.

 

A small tutorial of how I did it. Operating system/different cards might require some tweaking according to the settings used, so adjust them accordingly please.

1) Completely uninstall MSI Afterburner whatever version that might be. Don't keep files if asked and make sure it fully uninstalled. Download again MSI AB Beta14 from HERE or for Lighting editions HERE.

2) Start MSI Afterburner Beta14 and go to Settings and in first page, tick accordingly to the screenie. Then press OK and close MSI AB Beta14. Make sure its closed.



3) Navigate to "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI Afterburner\Profiles" folder and you should have 1 file starting with "VEN_10DE&DEV" or 2 files if you are using SLi.



4) a) Make sure you have ADMIN rights/account and open the 1st "VEN_10DE&DEV". It will ask you to select a program to open it with. Choose Wordpad/Notepad.
---b) Also make sure you UN-TICK the "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" IF you don't want to always use that program to open this kind of files.

5)Now that you have open the file in the Wordpad/Notepad or editor of your choice add the following parameters in the end like in the screenshot.

[Settings]
VDDC_Generic_Detection = 0
VDDC_NCP4206_Detection = 3:20h

Or alternatively you can the 4:20h parameter as in below:

[Settings]
VDDC_Generic_Detection = 0
VDDC_NCP4206_Detection = 4:20h



Repeat with the 2nd "VEN_10DE&DEV" file if using SLi.

Save the document(s) and open MSI AB Beta14. Voilà! Voltage control. :thumbup:

 

Sometimes i regret having a 3930K :banana:
But well, hardware encoded h264 sounds nice... but is the limit from quicksync at 1920x1080 or 2560x1440 ? certainly won't do 5760x1080 :infinity:
Ah well... gotta try out CPU load when using QuickSync emulation
(any word on Resolution limitation in the emulation ? guess 4096x2100 ?)

 

Hello, I have ordered the new GTX 780 Lightning.

Unwinder, is there any chance that you ll do some unlocked version of AFB for this card, please ?

There is so called RBBY s tool floating at OCN , but it looks cumbersome
and I d like to see something much more elaborate from you .Last year I have enjoyed immensely GTX 680 Lightning with AFB 223 , I believe.

Kudos to you and your work !

 

Yes, the 3:20h parameter seams to be working fine with non-MSI cards.
If I didn't miss any feedback and in this thread alone, it was tested and confirmed with ASUS, EVGA, PALIT and PNY cards.

Offtopic
Unwinder, thank you so much for your effort and support. Forget those immature, selfish and ungrateful lamers; they just aren't worthy.

 

Yes, good point - with this blissful information now anyone can boost up the voltage even on reference cards -what to want more.

 

Thanks to Koniakki's guide, I can confirm that my reference EVGA GTX 680s do not have the necessary voltage controller for more jiggawatts.

 

Are you completely sure? Afaik according to TP the 780 ACX with it reference PCB uses the NCP4206 controller. So its possible for the EVGA 680 to have on too. Not exactly apples-to-apples I know.

Well I will try to look for some confirmation if indeed the EVGA 680 doeasn't have the NCP4206.

Also Caedo send me a link of your exact card model if you wish and I will try to look further into it.

 

Hi Unwinder,
first thanks for your great work now hope you can answer some questions:
*Does QuickSync encode support all APIs i.e. also OpenGL games if not also latest driver offer WGL_NV_dx_interop so you can get DX textures from GL textures and viceversa I think..
*I own a Nehalem CPU and a AMD 7970 which has also a video encoder VCE.. so I can't use no shadowplay nor QuickSync.. do you plan to add support for AMD VCE encode (seems an AMD Media SDK is coming soon meanwhile we have a openEncode simple at http://bit.ly/18qsLIy showing how to use with interop to OpenCL but anyway OpenCL has DX and OGL interop so should be doable.. In fact I have modified code of this simple encoding from OGL frames.. if you don't plan to add support perhaps open sourcing quicksync plugin I can modify to support VCE also? what do you think?
thanks!

 

I can't get the QuickSync encoding to work for some reason.
I have followed the info posted and the strange thing is that Action! works flawlessly with QuickSync encoding, but MSI just gives me the error message "Failed to encode frame!". If I try to record anyway I get sound but just a black image.
I am using Direct3D9 and forced monitor recognition like the guide for Action! told me to.

Specs:
CPU - Intel i5-2500K
Motherboard - Asus z68-V Gen3 (with onboard graphics turned on, and it appears in device manager next to my AMD graphics card)
Intel HD 3000 drivers - 9.17.10.3223

Video recorded with Action! using QuickSync.

 

Wow don't get me wrong. I am not trying to say Action is better or anything. The reason why I mentioned Action! is to show that my setup should work, but for some reason doesn't. I thought you'd be interested in feedback so I gave as much details as possible and showed you what happens when I try to record. The reason I ask for help is because I'd rather use AB for recording.

If you can't help me then fine. Hopefully it will work for me when this feature hits the stable build.

 

if you implement hw monitoring plugin support you probably can get rid of dealing with such users as plugin developers will take care of supporting their plugins.

no idea how hard it is to implement hw monitor plugin support, but it might be worth the effort ...

anyway, still impressed what you come up with, alex!