MSI Afterburner 2.3.0

What's new in this version:

- Added new graphics cards support.
- Fixed rounding error in VID generation for offset voltage control mode for CHL8318 voltage generators
- Now it is possible tstart MSI Afterburner in limited functionality mode on the systems with nsupported AMD or NVIDIA graphics card. This allows you tuse hardware independent features like high-performance Predator™ videcapture module on any PC, even if it is using integrated Intel graphics
- Added frametime graph thardware monitoring module. The graph is displaying the maximum frame time on each sampling period and it is useful for detecting microstutters, which are invisible on averaged framerate graph.
- All documentation is now provided in PDF format
- Added unified videomemory usage monitoring implementation for Windows 8
- Removed obsolete GPU type selection settings for some AMD graphics cards
- Removed obsolete shader clock monitoring for NVIDIA Kepler graphics cards
- Improved hardware database format, now custom design MSI graphics cards are calibrated in separate OEM file tminimize the risk of introducing typos in reference design cards definitions when updating the database

MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded tversion 4.4.0. New version gives you the following major improvements in Predator videcapture module:
- Improved RTV1 compression algorithm. New compression approach combines DXTC, RLE and uncompressed data saving algorithms and allows you tincrease image quality at the cost of decreasing compression ratio, while keeping extremely fast compression performance. Please take a note that the previous RTV1 compression implementation is equal tthe lowest possible 25% image quality/compression ratibalance in new implementation
- Added 64-bit version of RivaTuner VideCodec. Now RTV1 videos are playable and editable in 64-bit applications (e.g. 64-bit Sony Vegas PRor Adobe Premiere PRCS6)
- Huffman tables are nlonger omitted by MJPG encoder timprove compatibility with applications using limited MJPG decoders (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO)
- Now both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of RivaTuner VideCodec can optionally decode MJPG videos. Third party MJPG codec installation is nlonger required tplay or edit MJPG videos with omitted Huffman tables in some applications with limited MJPG decoding support (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO). MJPG decoder can be enabled in videcapture compatibility properties
- Multisource audirecording. Now it is possible trecord audifrom twindependent audisources (e.g. game audiand microphone sound) in twindependent auditracks then mix them later in videediting application (e.g. Sony Vegas PRO) or optionally mix multiple tracks in realtime during capture
- Now it is possible tdownmix multichannel auditsterein stererip and steremix modes. Previously available stererip mode simply rips front left and right audichannels from multichannel audi******, whilst new steremix mode merges audifrom front left, right, center and surround channels
- WASAPI audipackets with timestamp error are nlonger included intoutput audi******
- External VFW codecs support. Now in addition tbuilt-in uncompressed, RTV1 and MJPG encoders it is alspossible tencode videusing external VFW codecs installed in the system. It is recommended tdownload, install and use Lagarith Lossless Codec for lossless videcapturing or x264vfw codec for the maximum compression ratio, MSI Afterburner was developed tprovide the best compatibility with these codecs
- Vide****** synchronization is now based on inserting NULL frames instead of indexing existing frames
- Frame dropping implementation has been improved tprovide compatibility with external VFW codecs using temporal compression and deltaframes
- Now output videdimensions are always cropped tbe multiples of 2 tprovide compatibility with external VFW codecs
- Now framerate is calculated on each frame with sliding 1000ms window approach instead of calculating it once per second
- Improved rendering pipeline flushing implementation for Direct3D9 applications provides more stable framerate when capturing videos with VSync enabled
- New dynamic Direct3D rendering pipeline flushing approach can decrease videocapture related performance hit when capturing videos in Direct3D applications with high rendering framerates
- Added On-Screen Display support for Direct3D 10 applications in Windows 8
- Added German localization
- Updated profiles list