MSI AB / RTSS development news thread

We discussed async fan control internally prior to adding it to AB. Talking about my own preferences, I see whole async fan control idea as rather useless thing and nothing but pure marketing. I cannot imagine the situation when I’ll need to or when I actually will control the fans independently. The same applies to Hilbert. So we delayed the implementation as much as it was possible till the moment when I had some extra free time for development and absolutely zero other useful tasks in development queue. Anyway, it is a part of NVIDIA reference design now and some users just wanted to play with it, seeing like some competitors are using software async fan control as exclusive selling point, so now you can play with it in AB too.

 

Nope, fan profile affected both fans before. All fans were linked and set to the same speed on reference design 20x0 cards in both manual and automatic software adjustment mode.

 

The only possible case when I see it can be somehow useful is rare case of mechanical fan specifics and unwanted vibrations caused by fan speeds resonance. That’s when you actually might want to run them out of sync.

 

BTW, I'm not sure if you know that, but Chris aka Drerex also created A LOT of nice skins for legacy EVGA Precision X (for versions up to 4.2.1). Those skins became abandoned since the moment when EVGA decided to start developing Precision in-house, however I thought that those skins absolutely must be alive and should not die so we introduced skin cross-compatibility layer in MSI AB. So any of his past creations (or any other legacy EPX skins created by different community members) are still usable with MSI Afterburner. You can find archive of the previous skins created by Drerex here:

http://sdrv.ms/11dBFtS

 

It will be included in 4.6.1 beta 2 soon.

 

Guys, couple posts ago I mentioned that MSI AB’s skin cross-compatibility layer supports absolutely all legacy EVGA Precision skins from the past, so those who admire Drerex work and feel nostalgic can also use the skins he created before.

During the first year of in-house EVGA Precision development I also provided cross-compatibility with native X15 and X16 skins (internally they were still using my own USF skin format with a bit of simple obfuscation so it was very easy to support it). However I stopped investing time in it after seeing that community do not feel too much enthusiasm to design anything for it. So at some stage X16 skins became incompatible with AB, XOC skins were never supported by cross-compatibility layer too. Drerex was probably the only person who tried to create a few custom skins for it, for example nice Fallout 4 themed skin:

https://www.facebook.com/drerexdesign/photos/a.286930541384487/943452279065640/?type=3&theater

However, X16 is now abandoned by EVGA, the same applies to XOC. So I decided to pay tribute to the past work done by Chris, I absolutely don’t want to see any of his skins overboard. So yesterday I invested some time and pumped up MSI AB skin cross-compatibility layer to support the latest skin versions of X16 and XOC. So with the next beta of 4.6.1 you’ll be able to use that X16 Fallout 4 skin by Chris too. Or alternately use any other X16/XOC skins, if you want to make MS AB look like X16 or XOC due to some weird reason.

 

I think we can all say that using the EVGA skins feels a little ... weird - pretty cool though

 

Yup, feels weird with no doubts. Anyway, it is impossible to find a single GUI liked by absolutely everyone, so having more alternate GUI looks and more options for users is always a positive thing.

 

Because I don't want development beta to be available to all users (read it as search and RTFM haters). There will be a public beta for everyone once we decide that it is ready for prime time.

 

I'm afraid I don't understand that