MSI AB / RTSS development news thread

The first 6.7.0 beta with initial UWP support is available for download:

http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/RTSSSetup670Beta1.rar

Full changes list includes:


- Added initial Microsoft UWP applications support:
o On-Screen Display, framerate/frametime statistics collection and framerate limiting support
o Screencapture and videocapture are currently not supported
- Fixed bug in Vulkan On-Screen Display cleanup code causing The Talos Principle to crash to desktop on changing video settings
- Improved dynamic Direct3D12 presentation command queue detection algorithm
- Improved shared memory layout. Now each running 3D application entry contains x64/UWP application architecture usage flags in
addition to previously available 3D API usage flags
- Added power user oriented profile compatibility setting for OpenGL applications rendering from forward compatible 3.x+ context
with disabled deprecated immediate OpenGL mode functionality. The switch allows the server to fall back to rendering path using a
separate legacy OpenGL context
- Added On-Screen Display profile for Citra Nintendo 3DS emulator
- Added On-Screen Display profile for CEMU Wii U emulator
- Updated profiles list


A few important notes:

- RTSS must be started before an UWP 3D application to provide automatic injection and On-Screen Display rendering. However, you can optionally define “Show On-Screen Display” hotkey in RTSS client applications (i.e. MSI Afterburner) and manually inject any running UWP application via pressing this hotkey even if you start RTSS during UWP application runtime.
- Currently the following UWP titles are supported officially: Gears of War 4, Gears of War Ultimate Edition, Forza Horizon 3 (please read notes below), Forza Motorsport 6: Apex (please read notes below), Minecraft Windows 10 Edition, ReCore, Ori and the Blind Forrest Definitive Edition. Other UWP titles were not tested at all, but may also work.
- Currently Forza series games may hang on startup if OSD is displayed during loading the game. To prevent that, RTSS includes application specific profiles for both Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 6: Apex applications and disables automatic injection and OSD rendering for it. However, you may safely manually display the OSD in Forza series games via pressing “Show On-Screen Display” hotkey, but it is strongly recommended to do so after Forza Horizon 3 or Forza Motorsport 6: Apex finish loading into the main menu.

 

Heh, it looks like this evil UWP development gonna cost me additional $50 to purchase Halo Wars 2 Ultimate Edition. I'll buy it and peek inside.
If HW2 crash on startup issue is indeed having the same roots as Forza, then it can be temporarily bypassed with similar application profile, simply create new profile template for it and copy forza_x64_release_final.exe.cfg/ForzaMotorsportApex.exe.cfg (both can be found in ProfileTemplates subfolder).

 

That's normal and expected behavior for applications using partial frame buffer updates (most frequently that applies to letterbox'ed widescreen applications with static black bars ot top/bottom). OSD is being rendered on top of the application's frame, if the game is not erasing those areas on each frame - you'll see exactly the same overlapping OSD text. It can be fixed by moving OSD down to refreshable parts of framebuffer.

Nope, Minecraft W10 edition and Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition, which I mentioned above, are DX11 as well and working fine. I'd say it is something specific to that game engine implementation.

 

Got both Halo Wars DE and Halo Wars 2 installed. Issue with missing OSD in Halo Wars DE is reproduced and fixed, new beta with Halo Wars DE support will be uploaded today in the evening. However, I cannot reproduce any crashes in Halo Wars 2.

 

Cannot confirm that.

 

I repeat once again that I cannot confirm it and I'm not working on solution. But if you believe that it is RTSS issue and hope that it will be resolved with new version, let it be so. I'm just informing that no fix is coming from my side. Please avoid discussing it in this thread, it is intended for testing new UWP functionality.

 

I think I fixed hang on startup related issues with Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 6: Apex. Most likely beta 2 with these changes and with OSD support for Halo Wars Definitive Edition will be uploaded tomorrow.