The MSI Afterburner application is an application for
graphics cards produced by MSI, which is used in many things, including
overclocking the card, monitoring and detecting the temperature of the graphics
card while playing on the computer, and many other advantages that can be used,
the application in general, although it is directed to MSI cards only But it
can be used with graphics cards of any other company, it can be used to test
the stability of performance after overclocking or control the speed of the
graphics card fans manually, or other uses such as taking a screenshot or
shooting a video of the desktop or the game, of course, and other additional
features The application is not easy to deal with and of course does not
explain itself, so we explain it in this article, we will take you on a tour
with the MSI Afterburner application and its use in many different tasks, so
follow us.
Install MSI Afterburner
● Download the app from the official website here
● Start installing the app normally
● The application will show you the tools it will
install which is the application itself and the performance of the RivaTuner
Statistics Server that you will need to monitor the performance of the device
● After installation, the application will work normally
MSI Afterburner interface
The interface of the program is primarily an
information interface and gives you the quick adjustments that you want on your
graphics card. We are talking here about overclocking and controlling the
amount of electricity that the card gets, and about the speed of the fan itself
and the capacity of the card’s fans, and of course the various important
information that you will love to know about the card Here are the widgets for
the app (some features are locked because I'm using the app on a laptop with an
AMD Radeon 530 graphics card).
interface elements
1-Information about the card from the speed of the
card itself, the speed of its graphic memory (vRAM), the electricity drawn by
the card, and its temperature
2-Control the amount of electricity consumed by the
card
3-Control card speed, vRAM speed, and overclocking if
available (not available to me due to the nature of my device)
4-Control the fans of the card, their speed, and the
energy they consume
5-Various profiles to save your settings
Run the program with Windows
● Open the app and tap the gear sign to open Settings
● From the General tab, select the Start with Windows
option
● If you want the app to make a widget, select the Start
Minimized option
● To open the other settings of the application,
activate the options Unlock Voltage Monitoring and Unlock Voltage Control to
control the voltage of the graphics card in order to overclock and monitor it
Show MSI Afterburner Graphics Card Monitor Window
● Press the gear sign to open Settings
● Select the Monitoring tab
● From the tab, choose Show in On-Screen Display
● Now under the Active hardware monitoring graphs
options select the information you want the app to show
● Choose Show in On-Screen Display for each piece of
information you want to appear
● Do not close the application minimize it and make sure
that it is working by showing its icon in the taskbar at the bottom
Manual fan speed control
● Press the gear sign to open Settings
● Choose the Fan tab
● Activate the option to Enable user-defined software
● Here you can manually control the fan speed
Show device status information while playing
Through the On-Screen Display tab, you can control the
device’s information screen, which we explained at the beginning of the
article. Toggle On-Screen Display to tweak what the app displays, Sow On-Screen
Display to set the shortcut to display this screen, and finally Hide On-Screen
Display to set the window to hide.
Gaming performance review with MSI Afterburner
The Benchmark tab helps you in making performance
tests and game reviews, you just need to set the shortcut start performance
test and shortcut end performance test to fully evaluate the game, and the
application will save the results of the performance test automatically, go to
the application settings and the Benchmark tab and set the shortcut start test
from the option Begin Recording and the abbreviation of the end of the test by
choosing End Recording.
Take a picture from inside the games
The Screen Capture tab helps you capture screenshots
inside games, and you can specify the quality of the image you take and where
it is saved, and all these things that you love when you take pictures of your
screen, also all you have to do is through the application to go to its
settings and open the Screen Capture tab and from it set the Screen capture
shortcut To take screenshots and select the format in which you want to save
the images between BMP, jpg, and png.
Screen capture using MSI Aftreburner
The Video Capture tab is responsible for capturing a
video on the computer screen when you are playing or when you are using the
device as you want. The tab allows you to set a shortcut to start shooting
Video Capture or start shooting as a Video Prerecord while setting the shooting
mode between shooting the desktop only or the game Or a combination of the two
Capture Mode, the frame rate video saving mode for saving the video and
choosing its audio codec, excellent.
Overclocking Mode Shortcuts
There is more than one profile to overclock because
many programs and games do not respond to high speeds, you can set shortcuts to
switch between the profiles that you save previously, all from the Profiles tab
in the application settings, switching between profiles is good to adjust the
performance of the card with the application or The game you are using, let's
say you are playing a game that does not require overclocking and does not
require high frequency, why would you use it? Use a relatively low frequency
just to keep the card.
Modify the MSI Afterburner interface
The application has more than one design and more than
one interface. From the User Interface tab, you can modify the application
interface and choose the look you like most through the User interface skinning
properties option, choose any shape you want, and agree to the settings.
MSI Afterburner
Afterburner is an excellent application for gamers and computer professionals in order to get the best possible experience, excellent interface, quick shortcuts, rich settings, and everything you need for your graphics card in one place, the application works on MSI cards, whether from AMD or Nvidia and there Lots of settings on other cards are available.