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It looks like adding asynchronous hardware polling mode in beta 2 was not the best idea, it will be disabled in the next beta and I'll still use old good synchronous mode. In meanwhile I also recommend those who installed beta 2 to disable async mode in MSIAfterburner.cfg via changing "AsyncHwPolling = 1" to "AsyncHwPolling = 0".

 

Looking good Alex.

15-03-2017, 19:28:55 re7.exe benchmark completed, 2350 frames rendered in 21.859 s
Average framerate : 107.5 FPS
Minimum framerate : 89.6 FPS
Maximum framerate : 125.4 FPS
15-03-2017, 19:29:27 re7.exe benchmark completed, 2170 frames rendered in 20.359 s
Average framerate : 106.5 FPS
Minimum framerate : 89.0 FPS
Maximum framerate : 124.0 FPS​

One suggestion I like to make is add the option to tie the recording to time. So I hit my pre-defined hotkey to start and then the recording end say after 30 seconds of recording automatically. As an option of course, and the number of seconds preferable configurable.

Also I programmed F6 as stop hey, need to press it twice before it actually stops (might be normal behavior, have not read up on it tbh).

 

It can only mean that you edited something else inside and corrupted the file. Or overwritten it in different encoding.

 

I'll think about it

Yep, I designed it on purpose and it is reflected in changes list. Pressing it once you stop recording and save results to file, but final benchmark results stay displayed so you can save them somehow (e.g. take screenshot). Results disappear from OSD on second press.

 

Nope. Thresholds are do not depend on history logging to file.

 

Define "I'm not able". I cannot reproduce that.

Nope. There is no vertical centering option available for shrinked/stretched text.

 

Yes, it is enabled and I have no ideas what are you doing wrong, sorry.

 

Yes, makes total sense. Cool. I'll run some more tests this week. Looks good though.

 

If you manually messed with delayed injection settings, created profiles for system applications like ApplicationFrameHost - it can be the reason. Do a clean install of RTSS.

 

Beta 3 is online. Changed critical threshold reaching notification approach for hardware monitoring window (similar to what I've described above), please refer to release notes to see full info on it.
Also I've removed async hardware polling, introduced in the previous beta, because async access to GPU monitoring API could cause false readings (random spikes) on hardware monitoring graphs. So GPU hardware polling is back to synchronous mode, only CPU clock (most performance expensive part now) is monitored in a separate thread.
RTSS is upgraded to beta 6, I've added config option PeakFramerateCalc, allowing switching min/max framerate calculation mode. Default mode uses sliding 1 second length window for peak framerate calculation, it is now also possible to enable alternate mode when minimum and maximum are calculated from each single frametime.

http://office.guru3d.com/afterburner/MSIAfterburnerSetup440Beta3.rar

 

BTW, as I mentioned above, flashing threshold warning icon is now displayed in Logitech G15/G19 keyboard LCD. I developed it on a PC with no such keyboard so I used my emulation layer to see what I display there. Not sure if anyone besides of private testers team know about this emulation layer, so I decided to share it. You may create a file called LGLCDEmulator.cfg in the root folder of MSIAfterburner and paste the following text there:

Code:

[Settings]
Device		= 0

[Device0]
Width   	= 320
Height		= 240
Bpp		= 32
NumSoftButtons	= 7
SoftButton0	= 70
SoftButton1	= 71
SoftButton2	= 72
SoftButton3	= 73
SoftButton4	= 74
SoftButton5	= 75
SoftButton6	= 76
Zoom		= 1

[Device1]
Width   	= 160
Height		= 43
Bpp		= 1
NumSoftButtons	= 4
SoftButton0	= 70
SoftButton1	= 71
SoftButton2	= 72
SoftButton3	= 73
Zoom		= 2
Color0		= E0F0E0

After creating such file and restarting MSI AB you can enable "Show in Logitech LCD" options in hardware monitoring and see emulated Logitech LCD output in separate emulator window. This way you can preview Logitech LCD monitoring functionality and decide if it worth purchasing such keyboard for monitoring purposes. When emulator window is focused, G15/G19 softkeys are emulated with F1-F7 keys. Emulator configuration is set to emulate color G19 display by default, but monochrome G15 display can be emulated too.