MSI Afterburner & video drivers

[Reddy]

DON'T, I repeat. DON'T downgrade or upgrade your video driver if you have MSI Afterburner open and overclocking your video card.

I did this and the memory clock went out of wack and MSI Afterburner overclocked it to like 39,000 (OMG WHAT) Shortly after this I got a blank blue screen like my computer BSOD'd. I restarted my computer, everything was fine, and then MSI afterburner started up with its 39,000 memory overclock. It did it again.

I had to boot up the computer and quickly turn off MSI afterburner, uninstall it and reinstall it to fix this.

[PLANTROON]

Same thing happened on my laptop, but I simply cannot use MSI Afterburner. It crashes randomly when I do whatever on my PC. I love MSI Afterburner, it's a great monitor and game screen capture tool. I still haven't found a good replacement :( But simply, on my laptop it won't ever work :(
For more details here is what happens (usually when I exit a game): nVidia card (optimus technology) turns down its frequency - driver stops working. When the card is later triggered (using Google Chrome and starting a yt video or starting a new game) it crashes (BSOD POWER_STATE_FAILURE).
Most people say it's an RTCore64.dll file which is causing problems. I'd really love nVidia or my laptop's manufaturer to fix this (since this does not occur on every nVidia optimus laptop)

[Pomelo]

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

Same thing happened on my laptop, but I simply cannot use MSI Afterburner. It crashes randomly when I do whatever on my PC. I love MSI Afterburner, it's a great monitor and game screen capture tool. I still haven't found a good replacement :( But simply, on my laptop it won't ever work :(
For more details here is what happens (usually when I exit a game): nVidia card (optimus technology) turns down its frequency - driver stops working. When the card is later triggered (using Google Chrome and starting a yt video or starting a new game) it crashes (BSOD POWER_STATE_FAILURE).
Most people say it's an RTCore64.dll file which is causing problems. I'd really love nVidia or my laptop's manufaturer to fix this (since this does not occur on every nVidia optimus laptop)

1) why does your nvidia GPU turn on for a youtube video? Usually optimus would not use the nvidia GPU for a browser, you must have set that manually.
2) have you tried all the stuff regarding doing clean driver installs, updating/downgrading to other drivers etc?

3) as for a replacement, try RivaTuner (6.1.0 or newer) plus HWiNFO64. RivaTuner is the OSD part of Afterburner, but it can run on its own. HWiNFO then allows you to configure in great detail which system info you want to monitor on that OSD. Imo way superior to Afterburner in terms of monitoring.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Powl:

1) why does your nvidia GPU turn on for a youtube video? Usually optimus would not use the nvidia GPU for a browser, you must have set that manually.

My GPU turns on for youtube videos too, unless I've set it to do otherwise. It does that by default and you can disable it by right clicking a youtube video, clicking settings, and disabling hardware acceleration. Since you didn't know that, I'm going to assume you don't know this is happening and that you don't monitor your GPU's usage/temperature.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

Same thing happened on my laptop, but I simply cannot use MSI Afterburner. It crashes randomly when I do whatever on my PC. I love MSI Afterburner, it's a great monitor and game screen capture tool. I still haven't found a good replacement :( But simply, on my laptop it won't ever work :(
For more details here is what happens (usually when I exit a game): nVidia card (optimus technology) turns down its frequency - driver stops working. When the card is later triggered (using Google Chrome and starting a yt video or starting a new game) it crashes (BSOD POWER_STATE_FAILURE).
Most people say it's an RTCore64.dll file which is causing problems. I'd really love nVidia or my laptop's manufaturer to fix this (since this does not occur on every nVidia optimus laptop)

It seems like you're having driver issues, bios issues, or your power supply is failing. "Power_State_Failure"

What OS are you using? I suggest reinstalling it and all the latest drivers from the manufaturers website.

[PLANTROON]

Originally posted by Jaippa:

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

Same thing happened on my laptop, but I simply cannot use MSI Afterburner. It crashes randomly when I do whatever on my PC. I love MSI Afterburner, it's a great monitor and game screen capture tool. I still haven't found a good replacement :( But simply, on my laptop it won't ever work :(
For more details here is what happens (usually when I exit a game): nVidia card (optimus technology) turns down its frequency - driver stops working. When the card is later triggered (using Google Chrome and starting a yt video or starting a new game) it crashes (BSOD POWER_STATE_FAILURE).
Most people say it's an RTCore64.dll file which is causing problems. I'd really love nVidia or my laptop's manufaturer to fix this (since this does not occur on every nVidia optimus laptop)

It seems like you're having driver issues, bios issues, or your power supply is failing. "Power_State_Failure"

What OS are you using? I suggest reinstalling it and all the latest drivers from the manufaturers website.

Nah, I reinstalled it like 5 times, on Windows 8 it seems to work fine but I'm using Windows 8.1 now and found MSI Afterburner causing the issues. After turning off MSI Afterburner nothing is failing at all and I'm here with uptime of 3 days and played for hours - definitely not a hardware problem ;)

[Pomelo]

Originally posted by Jaippa:

Originally posted by Powl:

1) why does your nvidia GPU turn on for a youtube video? Usually optimus would not use the nvidia GPU for a browser, you must have set that manually.

My GPU turns on for youtube videos too, unless I've set it to do otherwise. It does that by default and you can disable it by right clicking a youtube video, clicking settings, and disabling hardware acceleration. Since you didn't know that, I'm going to assume you don't know this is happening and that you don't monitor your GPU's usage/temperature.

I do. I have a laptop right here with an HD4600 and a 760M. However the nvidia GPU never turns on for youtube videos.

[PLANTROON]

Lol my bad, it was not for youtube videos then :D
maybe it wasn't Chrome that triggered the BSOD, it simply happened randomly. I remember once right after powering on my computer I could see MSI Afterburner showing 0 temperature and some really high usage (the number had many digits, it was probably the variable's maximum). Then it crashed within 5 minutes. Since I stopped using MSI Afterburner the issue has disappeared (I still have Afterburner installed in case I need it for something)

[Reddy]

Originally posted by PLANTROON:

Lol my bad, it was not for youtube videos then :D
maybe it wasn't Chrome that triggered the BSOD, it simply happened randomly. I remember once right after powering on my computer I could see MSI Afterburner showing 0 temperature and some really high usage (the number had many digits, it was probably the variable's maximum). Then it crashed within 5 minutes. Since I stopped using MSI Afterburner the issue has disappeared (I still have Afterburner installed in case I need it for something)

Try installing Firefox or just using Internet Explorer with Afterburner running in the background and see what that does. Perhaps Chrome isn't playing nice with Afterburner.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Powl:

Originally posted by Jaippa:

My GPU turns on for youtube videos too, unless I've set it to do otherwise. It does that by default and you can disable it by right clicking a youtube video, clicking settings, and disabling hardware acceleration. Since you didn't know that, I'm going to assume you don't know this is happening and that you don't monitor your GPU's usage/temperature.

I do. I have a laptop right here with an HD4600 and a 760M. However the nvidia GPU never turns on for youtube videos.

It could be that when outside of a 3D program, you're using the HD4600 graphics. Trying fullscreening the youtube videos, make sure to check the hardware acceleration checkbox if you disabled it like I mentioned before.
Since Flash gets fullscreened it's being treated like a 3D program. Hence why fraps doesn't count the framerate on youtube videos unless they're fullscreened.

[Air]

Well, I'm glad that I don't have to downgrade drivers, then. I have to have MSI Afterburner running in order to play games without problems; if the voltage increase isn't applied, games can end up crashing.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Air:

Well, I'm glad that I don't have to downgrade drivers, then. I have to have MSI Afterburner running in order to play games without problems; if the voltage increase isn't applied, games can end up crashing.

Wow. I wasn't expecting these kind of issues when I made this discussion. It sounds like your power supply isn't providing the proper amount of volts by default. That or your voltage regulators are being stupid.

[Air]

Originally posted by Jaippa:

Originally posted by Air:

Well, I'm glad that I don't have to downgrade drivers, then. I have to have MSI Afterburner running in order to play games without problems; if the voltage increase isn't applied, games can end up crashing.

Wow. I wasn't expecting these kind of issues when I made this discussion. It sounds like your power supply isn't providing the proper amount of volts by default. That or your voltage regulators are being stupid.

No, I have a TX850M, the problem is with the motherboard that I have.

[Reddy]

Originally posted by Air:

Originally posted by Jaippa:

Wow. I wasn't expecting these kind of issues when I made this discussion. It sounds like your power supply isn't providing the proper amount of volts by default. That or your voltage regulators are being stupid.

No, I have a TX850M, the problem is with the motherboard that I have.

Motherboards have voltage regulators too, so yeah.

[psymn]

I have been having similar issues since I installed MSI Afterburner (v 4.1.0) with my new Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 GPU. No matter which setting I used in Afterburner, my game would crash during loading, in this particular case the game was Assassin's Creed Unity or ACU.exe.

I finally found the problem was coming from the Afterburner companion app, Rivatuner Statistics Server. I manually added an application profile for ACU.exe to Rivatuner, and suddenly MSI Afterburner worked like a champ. I'm able to use all of the features in Afterburner since I made this change.

I only wish that I had found the solution earlier because I must have spent a couple of hours trying every single combination of setting in Afterburner. At least it working now.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Anytime u mess with GPU Drivers, u should first open MSI Afterburner (or others like it, such as EVGA Precision) and untick options such as; Overclock At Startup and Start With Windows. After your GPU drivers are updated, reinstalled, then manually change your GPU software back to those options again as needed.