Do not set the quality too high, or you will get very bad performance.
This uses up about 10-15% of my CPU when recording, and makes a good looking 1080p video at 1GB per hour. On the Video Capture tab, you have a lot of the same. If you want lossless screenshots, you will want to use PNG. I also set the Screenshot format to JPG, and 97% quality, which is the same as output from my DSLR.
I left the hotkey at the default,but some games may require you to change this. This is set up automatically, but there will be some settings we want to change. This is great and all, but my favorite feature of Afterburner is its ability to capture video and screenshots. All features here are well documented, so I do not need to explain much. You can also add applications for the OSD to show up on if it does not already. I can't really care, so I just leave this alone. In the the Process tray there will be another Icon as well called Rivatuner Statistics Server Technology which allows you to customize the color, size and other things about the OSD. If done right, you should get something like this:
You can set HWiNFO to start minimized, and start with windows as well, but I never got the latter to work properly.
HWiNFO will have to be running, and with the sensors tab opened, for these to show up in the OSD. (Note, line one is the first line after any AB OSD lines.) You can also have it label what the value is and tell it which line to display on. Then click on any value you want to be monitored, go the to the "RIVA Tuner OSD section", and check "show". Then set the scan interval to the same as afterburner. To select which ones to monitor, click configure.
When the Sensors tab loads up you will be given a plethora of sensor options, any and all of which can be monitored by the OSD. (In the future you can check the "Sensors only" checkbox at the welcome screen. When HWiNFO first starts you will be greeted with a window called system summary, close that as we are only interested in the "Sensors" section.
To do this you will first need to download a programs called HWiNFO. So what if you want to monitor more than just your gpu statistics? Well, that's possible as well. I just leave mine on the default of Control + B. The next tab you won't need to do much, but it does allow you to edit the hotkey that toggles the OSD. You can also use this to show fps, just like Fraps To enable one of the statistics, first, make sure that the check beside it is checked, then click on it, and then check the "Show in On-Screen Display" option down below. Next is the most important feature of this tab, and this is what makes things actually show up on the OSD. This is very handy when trying to diagnose a crash or other problems, as you can check the time stamps and look for abnormalities. Next we have the option to log the values. Setting this to a low value is unnecessary as it causes lag, bad performance, and really isn't necessary. We can set which values we want to be monitored in the monitoring tab of afterburner.Īt the top of the tab you have a Hardware polling period, which is how often Afterburner polls the gpu stats. It's primary purpose is to allow you to monitor gpu statistics while in a game or fullscreen application.įor all of the following examples I will be using Msi afterburner. It comes bundled with Msi Afterburner, Evga Precision X, and more. Rivatuner On Screen Display (OSD) is one of my favorite little features of many overclocking programs.