Does msi afterburner affect performance?

[joji]

Just as the title says. I was wondering if msi afterburner affect performance or fps when having it running on the background specially in gaming

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

No. Tech Youtubers even use it when benchmarking.

[Infected Shogun]

should answer accurately.

anything running in the background can affect performance.

MSI afterburner can conflict with things and cause performance issues but it is widely used and one of the better programs when it comes to this.

Just like with anything if you think you're experiencing issues due to this running in the background just test it without it running and see if you get better performance.

[joji]

Originally posted by Infected Shogun:

should answer accurately.

anything running in the background can affect performance.

MSI afterburner can conflict with things and cause performance issues but it is widely used and one of the better programs when it comes to this.

Just like with anything if you think you're experiencing issues due to this running in the background just test it without it running and see if you get better performance.

The reason that I wanna use msi afterburner on the background is because I'm in need of a custom fan curve. my rtx 2060 super wont spin on idle and it does that fan rev "on" and "off" thing on idle which is pretty annoying. Havent got a fix for that so I'm trying out a custom fan curve

[Cheezus Crisp]

Originally posted by wolfe:

Originally posted by Infected Shogun:

should answer accurately.

anything running in the background can affect performance.

MSI afterburner can conflict with things and cause performance issues but it is widely used and one of the better programs when it comes to this.

Just like with anything if you think you're experiencing issues due to this running in the background just test it without it running and see if you get better performance.

The reason that I wanna use msi afterburner on the background is because I'm in need of a custom fan curve. my rtx 2060 super wont spin on idle and it does that fan rev "on" and "off" thing on idle which is pretty annoying. Havent got a fix for that so I'm trying out a custom fan curve

His answer is bs. Short answer, it doesn't affect your performance. Long answer, it takes up so little resources that unless you're running a PC from 2000, you won't notice anything.

[joji]

Originally posted by Cheezus Crisp:

Originally posted by wolfe:

The reason that I wanna use msi afterburner on the background is because I'm in need of a custom fan curve. my rtx 2060 super wont spin on idle and it does that fan rev "on" and "off" thing on idle which is pretty annoying. Havent got a fix for that so I'm trying out a custom fan curve

His answer is bs. Short answer, it doesn't affect your performance. Long answer, it takes up so little resources that unless you're running a PC from 2000, you won't notice anything.

Hey thanks for the answer. BTW my specs are 9700k, 16gb ddr4 3200mhz ram, rtx 2060 super sc, asus rog strix z390-e. So you think I'll be okay having the afterburner running on the background for a fan curve setting?

[nullable]

Originally posted by wolfe:

Originally posted by Cheezus Crisp:

His answer is bs. Short answer, it doesn't affect your performance. Long answer, it takes up so little resources that unless you're running a PC from 2000, you won't notice anything.

Hey thanks for the answer. BTW my specs are 9700k, 16gb ddr4 3200mhz ram, rtx 2060 super sc, asus rog strix z390-e. So you think I'll be okay having the afterburner running on the background for a fan curve setting?

Yes, it's inconsequential.

Anyone can make a pedantic argument about resource usage, and "technically" this or that. Effectively, and you'll be able to verify this yourself with direct experience, it won't hurt performance in any way that you care about or even notice. But there's always at least one person who's gotta overly complicate things.

[Infected Shogun]

You still should mention the possibility exists for it to conflict with something.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Infected Shogun:

You still should mention the possibility exists for it to conflict with something.

You can mention everything that could possibly happen if you want. It's going to be a pretty long list though. At some point you have to settle for what's probable and stick to the edge case nonsense when you actually hit an edge case.

And unless you have some strong evidence that he's extremely likely to have an issue, preaching warnings and caution isn't bad, it's just not as helpful as you imagine if you're doing it indiscriminately.

[joji]

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

Originally posted by Infected Shogun:

You still should mention the possibility exists for it to conflict with something.

You can mention everything that could possibly happen if you want. It's going to be a pretty long list though. At some point you have to settle for what's probable and stick to the edge case nonsense when you actually hit an edge case.

And unless you have some strong evidence that he's extremely likely to have an issue, preaching warnings and caution isn't bad, it's just not as helpful as you imagine if you're doing it indiscriminately.

So long story short. The answer is no? It shouldnt affect my performance specially with my current setup in any way?

[nullable]

No, it shouldn't. But you can certainly confirm this yourself by leaving it on and running some games. It's not like you have to be really really sure beforehand because there's no going back...

[Cheezus Crisp]

Originally posted by Infected Shogun:

You still should mention the possibility exists for it to conflict with something.

Conflict with something? Yea sure. The odds of other programs that are already running on a lot of people's systems are more likely to conflict with games than MSI afterburner. As far as I'm aware, the only problem MSI afterburner has isn't even from the program itself but instead from Rivatuner's FPS overlay which causes Source games to not load properly.

[Oliseo]

Yes it does. It introduces stuttering and frame spikes. For YEARS I've been plagued by the very software I was using to check for them. I've lost countless hours reinstalling things, and messing around, only to be fooled because it was afterburner that was introducing them.

Maybe these folk got lucky, or they they are lying, who knows on the internet with fanboys. It's not just me whose having this problem, go and do a google search. It's what led me to this page, and made me correct the posters above.

I recently reinstalled windows because I wanted to start afresh with a non microsoft account.
Also Witcher 3 was causing me tonnes of grief. Frame spikes every 10 seconds on a horse. Every few minutes on foot.

I believed that reinstalling windows would help.

It did. So I decided to finally once and for all find out what program was causing this. Bear in mind that all I had installed was Windows and the Witcher 3. Immediately after installing afterburner, bam, the stuttering started.

I was absolutely LIVID! I had just reinstalled windows because of this POS. The very thing that was showing my game was spiking was the very thing that was spiking my game.

From what others have said, apparently going and turning off the power monitoring fixes this.
One person needed it to undervolt their 3080. And the concensus was that this is a fix.

I don't know if this is true. Because I had uninstalled it. And will never install it again.
But please be aware that it CERTAINLY DOES affect performance. Not just to me, but others too.

Feel free to check if that fix works for you. All I know is I"m off to reinstall all my other software, and have to spend the rest of the day doing so because of this garbage POS.

[Oliseo]

Originally posted by joji:

Originally posted by Infected Shogun:

should answer accurately.

anything running in the background can affect performance.

MSI afterburner can conflict with things and cause performance issues but it is widely used and one of the better programs when it comes to this.

Just like with anything if you think you're experiencing issues due to this running in the background just test it without it running and see if you get better performance.

The reason that I wanna use msi afterburner on the background is because I'm in need of a custom fan curve. my rtx 2060 super wont spin on idle and it does that fan rev "on" and "off" thing on idle which is pretty annoying. Havent got a fix for that so I'm trying out a custom fan curve

Install fan control by remi mercier. I use it to control all my case fans (from a mix of vendors).
It's easily the best fan control software on the market. And it's free.

You can most certainly do a fan curve for your GPU. You have all kinds of settings that MSI afterburner does not. You can really fine tune it.

If you're looking for a custom fan curve, then use that.

I also recommend OpenRGB instead of the OEM software to control your RGB as well.

[DolZ]

Originally posted by joji:

Originally posted by Brockenstein:

You can mention everything that could possibly happen if you want. It's going to be a pretty long list though. At some point you have to settle for what's probable and stick to the edge case nonsense when you actually hit an edge case.

And unless you have some strong evidence that he's extremely likely to have an issue, preaching warnings and caution isn't bad, it's just not as helpful as you imagine if you're doing it indiscriminately.

So long story short. The answer is no? It shouldnt affect my performance specially with my current setup in any way?

i'm testing it, yes, a little little affect performance

[Yuki]

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