Changelog :

Afterburner v1.6.1 (2010-07-06)

• - Added MDI a GeForce GTX 460 Cyclone series graphics cards support

Afterburner v1.6 (2010-06-07)

•  - Added Nvidia GeForce GTX 400 series graphics cards support (including voltage control !)
•  - Added voltage control for MSI N240GT Low Profile series graphics cards
•  - Changed marketing name for MSI R5670-PD512 in hardware database
•  - Added basic screen capture support by means of built-in screen capture engine of MSI On-Screen Display server. Now it is possible to assign the hotkey for capturing screenshots in BMP,PNG or JPG formats on desktop, in DirectX   or in OpenGL   applications
•  - Added hardware monitoring history logging support. Now MSI Afterburner is able to save history in native RivaTuner Hardware Monitoring Log file format.
•  - Added new safety option allowing forcing constant voltage on some cards with voltage regulators supporting programmable dynamic voltage management (e.g. VT1165 or uP6266).
•  - Screen capture and On-Screen Display hotkey events are now being processed via direct connection to the On-Screen Display server instead of command line.
•  - MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.7.1. New server gives you a lot of improvements including :
•  - DirectX11 On-Screen Display and screen capture support
•  - DirectX screen capture engine is no longer using DirectX runtimes to capture and compress screenshots. Screen capture and compression to PNG/JPG formats in DirectX applications is now handled by own more effective LIBPNG/JPEGLIB based library
•  - PNG and JPG screen capture support for desktop and OpenGL applications
•  - Adjustable JPG screen capture quality for experienced users
•  - Screen capture support for DirectX10 and DirectX11 applications using multisampled antialiasing   or non-standard frame buffer formats (e.g. sRGB)
•  - Optional On-Screen Display 3D rendering mode. New mode uses 3D accelerated DirectX functions to emulate previously used 2D framebuffer access functions and render 2D text. New rendering mode provides On-Screen Display support in DirectX10 and DirectX11 applications using multisampled antialiasing and can also drastically reduce OSD related performance hit on the systems with badly optimized 2D acceleration in display drivers
•  - Simplified On-Screen Display coordinate space settings. Rarely used desktop and window coordinate space modes have been merged into single framebuffer coordinate space mode
•  - Improved application notification scheme during runtime profiles adjustment. Now runtime changes in OSD application profiles (e.g. OSD zoom ratio change on the fly) are reflected in affected application almost immediately instead of approximately 1 second delay in the previous versions
•  - Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage unloading
• Improved race condition protection system for multithreaded 3D engines (e.g. Age of dragons : Origins and ArmA II)
•  - Improved race condition protection system for the systems running multiple OSD applications simultaneously (e.g. OSD server, FRAPS and STEAM In-Game Chat)
•  - Improved floating injection address hooking technology. Due to more advanced built-in code analyzer hooks can be injected deeper into 3D application code if stealth mode is enabled.
•  - Now stealth mode cannot be toggled during 3D application runtime to reduce the risk of crashing 3D application
•  - Removed single screen capture per second limitation
•  - Updated profiles list
•  - Now MSI Afterburner distributive includes original 128x128 PNG application logo (stored in .\Graphics folder) for dockbar applications like RocketDock or ObjectDock
•  - It is no longer necessary to close the application to save monitoring window attachment state
• [Stop the task if it runs longer than 3 days] option is no longer set in the task settings when using alternate startup mode via the task scheduler under Windows Vista / Windows 7
•  - Full list active of On-Screen Display server clients is now displayed in [i] window instead of the most recent client
•  - Floating tooltips help system is now reinitialized properly after runtime skin switching
•  - Added Ukrainian localization

Afterburner v1.5.1 (2010-03-18)

• Added voltage control of MSI R5830 Twin Frozr II series.
• Added voltage control of MSI R5670-PD1G series.
• Fixed voltage control of MSI R5870 Lightning and R5870/R5850 Twin Frozr II
• Fixed description of R5670 1GB series

Afterburner V.1.5.0

• Added video memory usage monitoring for NVIDIA graphics cards under Forceware
• 185.xx and newer drivers
• Added GPU     usage monitoring for NVIDIA GT2xx and newer graphics cards under
• Forceware 185.xx and newer drivers
• Added VGA BIOS version detection for AMD graphics cards
• Added optional ability to display hint messages in hardware monitoring window
• area. The messages notify the user about runtime profile management activity
• (such as profile creation, removal or applying) and other application events
• Minor appearance tweaks in default skins
• Added compact versions of default skins (default green, red and blue editions)
• Now advanced MSI Afterburner properties also support floating tooltip based
• context help system similar to the main application window
• Now MSI Afterburner supports RivaTuner’s user extendable localization system.
• Currently localization system includes default English, Russian, Traditional 
• Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Dutch language packs and affects context help 
• system and non-skinned advanced properties interface. Similar to RivaTuner 
• you can also create your own language packs for your native language and 
• share your work with MSI Afterburner users community !
• Improved skin format. Now skinned fonts support characters remapping feature.
• All skins supplied with MSI Afterburner are using this feature, third party
• skin designers may decompile and peek into these skins to see an example of
• new feature usage
• Now hardware monitoring window font size can be redefined via the skin, third
• party skin designers may decompile and peek into compact versions of default
• skins to see an example of new feature usage
• Skin format reference documentation has been updated to v1.1 to reflect the
• format improvements mentioned above
• Added shared memory interface allowing any third party applications to access
• MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring statistics. The interface is intended for
• future MSI Afterburner Vista / Windows 7 sidebar gadgets, however, the shared
• memory layout is publicly open so third party developers can use it to access
• MSI Afterburner hardware monitoring statistics from their own applications.
• The SDK   included in MSI Afterburner distributive contains open source sample
• demonstrating the access to shared memory from a third party application
• Added command line switches for forcing MSI Afterburner to be minimized to the 
• system tray area on startup or during runtime and for opening desired advanced
• MSI Afterburner properties tab. The switches are intended for interraction 
• with future MSI Afterburner Vista / Windows 7 sidebar gadgets. Sample code
• included in the SDK also shows you how to detect, start and minimize installed 
• MSI Afterburner, how to open desired tab in advanced properties and how to use
• MSI Afterburner profiles from third party applications
• Reduced runtime skin engine memory footprint due to dynamic skin storage 
• unloading
• Startup settings are now displayed next to the <Apply overclocking at system
• startup> button
• Added button for locking profiles modification
• Now voltage control is also locked by default in safety options in advanced
• MSI Afterburner properties
• Added AccessibilityCheckingPeriod configuration file switch for improving the
• compatibility with AMD ULPS power saving technology on Crossfire     systems. The
• switch allows low-level monitoring module to use AMD driver API     to check GPU 
• accessibility and detect and display GPU sleep state properly. Please take a
• note that AMD API implementation is ineffective and hardly suits to realtime 
• monitoring due to high CPU stress resulting in periodic stuttering in games.
• That is why the compatibility switch is disabled by default, enable it only
• if you absolutely need to see slave GPU sleep state on the graphs and accept
• side effects like performance drop and stuttering resulting from ineffective
• AMD API implementation
• Added NVIDIA GT240M PCI DeviceID range to the core to provide more efficient
• hardware monitoring via low-level core on mobile NVIDIA GT240 based systems
• (bonus feature, official mobile systems support is still not declared)
• Graph limits are now adjustable in the graph properties in <Monitoring> tab
• Added AMD RV810 graphics processors family supports
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5670 1GB series graphics cards 
• with uP6262 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5870 Lightning series graphics
• cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5870 Twin Frozr II series 
• graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5850 Twin Frozr II series 
• graphics cards with uP6266 voltage regulators
• Added integration with external MSI Kombustor stability testing application
• Added workaround for overclocking bug of ForceWare 196.21. Please take a note
• that the workaround is applied only to 196.00 - 196.21 driver versions range 
• in order to ensure compatibility with future fixed NVIDIA drivers.
• Now hardware database includes marketing names of MSI graphics cards so MSI
• Afterburner displays marketing names instead of generic graphics card model
• names when possible

Afterburner v.1.4.2 (2010-01-07)

• Added voltage control for custom design MSI N240GT D5 1GB series graphics cards with uP6262 voltage regulators
• Added voltage control for custom design MSI R5770 Hawk graphics cards with uP6204 voltage regulators

Afterburner v.1.4.1 (2009-11-27)

Fix incorrect database entry of MSI N240GT D3 series

Afterburner v.1.4.0 (2009-11-11)

Added initial AMD Radeon HD 5970 series graphics cards support

Added voltage control for cost down reference design AMD Radeon HD 4870 series graphics cards with L6788A voltage regulators

Added voltage control for custom design MSI R4770 Cyclone graphics cards series with uP6204 voltage regulators

Ineffective and slow temperature, clock, GPU   usage and fan speed monitoring implementation provided by native AMD’s ADL SDK has been replaced with own more effective low-level codepath.

On-Screen Display and Logitech LCD monitoring modules no longer explicitly read displayed data from hardware and retrieve cached data from monitoring graphs instead.

Fan speed slider position and numeric fan speed input field are now being refreshed in automatic fan speed mode only when MSI Afterburner window is active

Added configuration file switch allowing power users to unlock unofficial overclocking codepath in AMD display drivers (similar to AMDGPUClockTool, ATITool and RivaTuner overclocking implementation on AMD graphics cards).

Now it is possible to toggle performance profiler status info visibility in hardware monitor window via option in the context menu

Fixed L6788A database entry for AMD Radeon HD 4770 series graphics cards

GPU voltage monitoring feature is now locked and not available by default.

AMD RV8xx I2C microcontroller is now being forcibly reset prior to starting new I2C transaction to minimize the risk of I2C collisions with third party tool without I2C synchronization protocol support (e.g. AMDGPUClockTool)

Added safety option allowing users to disable voltage control feature if it is not needed

Now Afterburner forcibly changes memory clock for all performance levels at once on AMD graphics cards with equal default memory clocks defined for all performance levels to bypass flickering issue caused by incorrect PowerPlay dynamic memory clock changing implementation on some cards

Added Catalyst     driver family version detection for AMD graphics cards

Added option to display system time in the On-Screen Display

Added red and blue editions of default skin

Various minor user interface and skin tweaks

Added configuration file switches allowing power users to tweak Afterburner startup process and define startup delay or force the startup to be handled by Windows Vista / Windows 7 Task Scheduler to bypass UAC evaluation window

MSI On-Screen Display server has been upgraded to version 3.6.0. New server provides improved desktop windows notification mechanism and also features optional power user oriented task scheduler based startup way

Added skin format reference documentation. Now third party skin designers may use this local offline documentation to create their own skins for MSI Afterburner.