MSI Afterburner, Can't Utilize OSD

[cctaylor88]

I'm not a fan of EVGA Precision at all, MSI Afterburner is a much better program IMO. Anyways, no matter what I do I can't get the on screen display to... display in my games. I set all hotkeys etc. I downloaded the program yesterday so I can only assume its the most up to day...

Any tips

 

[Face2Face]

I'm not a fan of EVGA Precision at all, MSI Afterburner is a much better program IMO. Anyways, no matter what I do I can't get the on screen display to... display in my games. I set all hotkeys etc. I downloaded the program yesterday so I can only assume its the most up to day...

Any tips

Did you install RTSS during the Afterburner installation. If so, do you see RTSS running in the system tray?

 

[psolord]

On a freshly installed MSI AB, which also installs RTSS (RivaTunerStatisticsServer) with a selectable dialog during the process, you have to do the following.

Go to settings, monitoring, highlight the desired option and click on the leftmost tick, so you enable the monitoring of that specific highlighted option at first. To also enable the OSD for the highlighted option, you have to check the "show in on screen display" checkbox, like so.



You have to repeat that for all options that interest you.Note that you can enable monitoring options without OSD. For example I want temperature monitoring of the gpu, but not on the OSD. You may like it differently and so on.

You can also drag the highlighted option and change its position, so you have gpu load first, cpu load second, vram load third, etc. This sorting will affect both the monitoring graphs and the OSD.

Now once you have selected all the OSDs you want, you will click OK. Upon pressing the OK, RTSS will be loaded and will appear in your system tray. If you have a lot of icons there, you may click the arrow to find it and bring it in a visible place amongst the others if you want.

You must click the RTSS icon for some extra settings.

I have set mine like so, to give you an example. Again you can do what you want.



If some games are crashing with RTSS running, try enabling custom 3D support.

If some games are stubborn and do not show OSD, also enable stealth. This setting is mostly for online games, so the OSD will not be mistaken as a cheating method, but I have found some games that also need this to display.

I would also advise to set a hotkey for enabling/disabling the OSD. It will come handy. And also better stick to vector 3D.

AMD cards have some problems with some settings, but only in very few games. Since you have a 1080 you will be fine.

You may need to click on the wrench to enable 64bit support. I am not sure if this is selected by default in recent versions.

There are of course more advanced settings, but these will get you started.

have fun