MSI AB / RTSS development news thread

Cannot help with that, I don't own Mafia and don't plan to purchase furthermore to test it with thirdparty hooks/mods.

 

MSI Afterburner 4.4.0 beta 4 is uploaded:

http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/MSIAfterburnerSetup440Beta4.rar

OSD layout customization possibilities have been improved. Some of gedo's suggestions are available in this build. Now it is possible to independently define each item size, color and alignment at layout level. To demonstrate that framerate/frametime items are now displayed in modern layout in custom color and performance limit reasons items are displayed in custom size. Alert color can be also independently defined for each item inside the layout if necessary. GPU/system/application groups (defining group colors) are no longer harcoded and can be also customized at layout lever. Subscript indices for GPU/CPU group names are also no longer hardcoded and can be customized via layout.
Also, now the layout can specify custom format for benchmark/videorecording status line. It is set to 70% size and custom white color to demonstrate that.

This build also includes RTSS 7.0.0 beta 9 with the following changes:

- Min/Mag filters for texture samplers in Vulkan renderer have been changed from nearest to linear. This improves quality of rendered subscripts/superscripts in Vulkan OSD.
- Benchmark statistics is no longer being updated on each frame. Now it is refreshed twice per second similar to framerate and frametime.

 

Anyone see any use in custom color/size of benchmark/videorecording statistics like it is done in the latest beta?
I'm thinking about possibly removing it from the final build, because the way it is implemented now causes all subsequent plain text in OSD to be rendered in this custom format, which means that unformatted text from HwInfo for example will also be smaller size and white. Preventing that requires implementing some delayed text formatting approach, and I'm not sure if it worths the efforts.

 

Found rather easy way to bypass previously mentioned limitations of custom formatting for the statistics. Now upper 6 of total 256 format variables are reserved for system needs and used to pass custom color/size for statistics from the layout. MSI AB 4.0.0 is updated to beta 5, statistics format customization in layout is now defined using new way:

http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/MSIAfterburnerSetup440Beta5.rar

 

Ok, added it to exclusions list.

 

Nope. And I'd like to remind everyone one more time that everything related to CPU monitoring was and is an unofficial and bonus functionality, added without any MSI support. So it is provided with no support obligations and no requests like "add support for CPU XXX or mobo YYY" will be accepted.

 

Just noticed two independent anomalies in OSD rendering quality in AvP D3D11 Benchmark: overbrightening causing too rough text outlines and pixelated font for shrinked text displaying subscripts/superscripts.



OSD text overbrightening is a result of using gamma-corrected SRGB frame buffer by this application. It needs to be taken into account when creating font texture, it should also be in gamma-corrected SRGB format to avoid that.
Pixelated subscripts/superscripts is a result of using nearest point filtering on texture sampler by this application.
Both issues will be addressed in RTSS 7.0.0 beta 11 a few hours later.

 

RTSS 7.0.0 beta 11 is available:

http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/RTSSSetup700Beta11.rar

Both OSD rendering glitches in AvP D3D11 benchmark documented in the previous post should be fixed now. Also I've added an option for filling the area under OSD with solid or semi-transparent color. It is not attached to GUI but you can enable it by manually editing FillColor field in [OSD] section in .\ProfileTemplates\Global file. Value is specified in ARGB format, so for example A0000000 is semi-transparent black color fill with A0/FF=62,75% opacity and FF0000FF is 100% opaque blue color fill. Solid color fill is supported for all OSD rendering modes, transparency is not supported for vector 2D modes and (currently) for Vulkan OSD.

 

Layered graph color setting is being used only when you organize graph layers and display multiple overlapping graphs on the same grid. In this case you absolutely need to define custom color for each graph to identify them, that's why this option exists.
To create a group of layered graphs right click a graph, select "Attach" from the context menu then click some other graph to attach it to.

 

Next RTSS beta will also add alpha-channel (i.e. transparency) support for colors, specified in the layout. So it will be possible to make any part of text transparent as well. Not sure if it is really useful, but it is also a good extension for layout customization possibilities.