MSI Afterburner incompatibility?

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

So I got MSI AB, since everyone says it has a nice fan profile. I got to using it and I really like it over the Zotac Firestorm program that came with my GPU. I also like the longer monitoring time it has over Firestorm.

But last night while doing some FPS benchmarking on my games, running MSI AB, Firestorm, Fraps, and games at the same time, most ran fine, but Fallout 4 started crashing shortly after getting into the game and the game stuttering a bit but solid at 60fps. At first I though it was GeForce Experience optimization since I experienced something similar in WoW a few days ago, which I resolved by deleting my Interface and WTF folders and letting the game recreate them.

So similarly I tried to delete and reinstall FO4, which worked until I tried to run it with AB again.

Long story short I isolated it to Afterburner and noticed that I get stuttering while running AB, crashes, and my Steam overlay does not come up while AB is running. I think most other games are okay at the moment.

I'm okay if I can't use the program itself while running games to monitor but I really want to keep the fan profile going as it is doing a marvelous job of keeping my GPU under 60C and it seems I can't do that with the program closed (it only overrides Firestorm while it is open).

So how can I fix this to use MSI AB, and various games at the same time? Especially since it is disabling my Steam Overlay, and for whatever reason that seems to be part of the problem.

 

[Frag Maniac]

1. DO NOT run multiple bench tool overlays at once. Pick Afterburner, Fraps, RTSS, etc, but use just one.

2. Some games have issues with the overlay (onscreen readout) of such tools, so try disabling it and instead have the tool write a logfile with the bench info on it that you can check after playing. Both Afterburner and Fraps can write logfiles.

3. RTSS is the best for just measuring FPS, because it uses the least amount of RAM

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

1. DO NOT run multiple bench tool overlays at once. Pick Afterburner, Fraps, RTSS, etc, but use just one.

2. Some games have issues with the overlay (onscreen readout) of such tools, so try disabling it and instead have the tool write a logfile with the bench info on it that you can check after playing. Both Afterburner and Fraps can write logfiles.

3. RTSS is the best for just measuring FPS, because it uses the least amount of RAM

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I assume RivaTuner and Afterburner will probably perform better together? I wasn't aware that RT had an fps overlay I was only interested in AB but it downloaded both. I'll try that, Thank you.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

Yeah something in there worked. I tried RTSS and put it in stealth mode and turned on custom Direct3D support and it all works. I think I had it on in the background the whole time though, so it might have been what was screwing everything up and I turned on custom D3D and it stopped causing issues. But I like it better than Fraps for displaying FPS so I actually unistalled Fraps and now I am running RivaTuner and Afterburner together no issues whatsoever.

Thanks!

 

[Frag Maniac]

RTSS can also run separately from Afterburner by itself. That's what I meant by lowest use of RAM.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

RTSS can also run separately from Afterburner by itself. That's what I meant by lowest use of RAM.

Yes, but I also like to monitor what my GPU is doing from time to time.

 

[Frag Maniac]

Yes, but I also like to monitor what my GPU is doing from time to time.

I understand that, I'm just saying it's handy to use RTSS by itself in games that have issues with Afterburner.

 

[EpIckFa1LJoN]

After further investigation I believe it was always RTSS. It was on in the background the whole time after I installed AB. I was testing all my games and most of them work with the settings I made, but I had to make a new profile for AC4. It wouldn't run with custom D3D on.

I never changed any setting on MSI AB.

Oh and I have 16GB RAM so I'm good, but thanks.