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MSI trots out updated Afterburner 2.1.0 overclocking utility

by Parm Mann on 24 February 2011, 11:15

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MSI has made available a new release of its popular Afterburner overclocking utility for graphics cards.

Following a lengthy spell of beta releases, version 2.1.0 provides full support for all the latest AMD and NVIDIA graphics card, as well as voltage control for the recently-launched GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

In addition to adding support for all Barts, Cayman and Fermi-derived GPUs, the new release touts a new in-game video capture facility dubbed "Predator". Built directly into the Afterburner utility, MSI's video capture can be activated at the press of a hotkey and lets the use capture compressed or uncompressed video at a pre-defined quality settings. Useful if you want to capture all of your best headshot moments.

As part of the new Afterburner bundle, users can also get their hands on MSI Kombustor version 2.0.0. The latest release of MSI's stress-testing utility includes a built-in KMark benchmark that utilises tessellation, fur rendering, geometry instancing and Physx, as well as the ability to upload benchmark scores to an online leaderboard.

Afterburner 2.1.0 and all the relevant release notes are available at event.msi.com/vga/afterburner.

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Posted by miniyazz - Thu 24 Feb 2011 13:15
Video capture, eh? At a watchable quality from an FPS, presumably? Interesting. Current solutions for recording screen output at high quality aren't cheap, and usually involve me using a virtual machine and a 30-day trial..
Posted by Merson - Thu 24 Feb 2011 16:56
Stick with Fraps. This doesn't have sound capture which is a massive downer. :undecided
Posted by this_is_gav - Thu 24 Feb 2011 19:34
Merson
Stick with Fraps. This doesn't have sound capture which is a massive downer. :undecided

But it's perfect for all the Youtube yuppies with their beats dubbed over all their videos!
Posted by GoNz0 - Thu 24 Feb 2011 20:48
i am sure its the version i downloaded from guru3d last year ?
Posted by miniyazz - Thu 24 Feb 2011 22:28
Merson
Stick with Fraps. This doesn't have sound capture which is a massive downer. :undecided

Oh ok. That is a bit of a letdown. I didn't realise Fraps actually allowed for that - I always assumed it was purely a benchmarking program:Oops:

One thing that strikes me with these - presumably, you could record HDCP-protected videos with it? Previously when copying videos (legit ones!) I've noticed that with hardware acceleration enabled, screenshots/videos of the screen record only a black box, but disabling it allows the content to be captured, and obviously you're using hardware acceleration when playing a game. Or am I just getting muddled and HDCP has no relation to hardware acceleration?