How to Use MSI Afterburner for FPS Monitoring

What Is MSI Afterburner

MSI is a graphical GPU utility tool which is basically designed for monitoring settings and retrieving the data of graphics card. It is a free and widely used tool. Many users think that MSI Afterburner is a overclocking tool. The most important and popular feature is that it gives real-time FPS monitoring. Many of the tools give FPS monitoring but they do not give the real-time monitoring which can be shown simultaneously while playing games, coding, etc.

This is a very good and a plus point for this tool. FPS is a factor. On this factor, visuals depend, good gameplay depends, system accuracy depends, system react time depends, power consumption depends, performance depends, and it is disturbed with input lag, screen tearing, stuttering, low power, and heavy burden on GPU. It is a very important metric for gamers. MSI Afterburner usually allows all the users to view the FPS all the time on the screen. It can be while playing games, while doing coding, while editing, while playing video, or etc.

Feature	MSI Afterburner	Steam FPS Counter	NVIDIA GeForce Experience
FPS Accuracy	High	Medium	High
Customization	Extensive	Limited	Moderate
Hardware Monitoring	Yes	No	Limited
Resource Usage	Low	Very Low	Medium
Free to Use	Yes	Yes	Yes

It also shows the stats like GPU usage, CPU temperature, RAM consumption, power consumption, and the main reasons behind them and the currently running program details etc. This makes it a very powerful and easy to access and all-in-one software. That’s why many of the gamers and users use this. It is easy to detect bottlenecks, stuttering, performance drops, FPS drop with the help of this tool. MSI Afterburner is basically designed to detect how our system behaves under different conditions like under the workload, under low power, and vice versa.

System Requirements and Compatibility for Using MSI Afterburner

Most of the time when we are willing to download or use a software, we do not check it’s compatibility with our system and that’s the big reason why our system usually lags or delays the performance. Actually, we should check the performance and compatibility of every software with our computer. Before using MSI Afterburner for FPS monitoring or detecting the problems or seeing other details, it is important to take a look on the requirements and the compatibility issues.

This software usually works on most of the modern Windows operating systems and supports the graphics card from major manufacturers like NVIDIA, AMD, ITEL, and ETC. In order to use this software or some other software like this, it is not mandatory to have a high-end system. As it consumes very little energy and gives handsome results, that’s why this tool and software is promoted internationally. For these tools, the one thing we need is the proper graphics card drivers. This is the main reason because it monitors the FPS and all other through the help of graphics card drivers.

So, for that reason, graphics card drivers must be installed for accurate monitoring. This also relies on RTSS. RTSS is basically Riva Tuner Static Server. This is the program which helps us to show the details on the screen. This installs automatically when you install the tools and the software. Your system compatibility, your system’s ability to run such programs matters for the most. But as it is a software which can run on a normal day to use computer as well, so high-end PC is not required for this.

But at least check its compatibility that it can have a few conflicts with different files and other monitoring tools which are currently running. This step is very much important, not before installing the MSI Afterburner only, but before any other tool, we must check its compatibility with the tools present on our system. This step is very much important. And the last one is to check your software/tools compatibility with your hardware devices as well. Are they capable to run this software or not?

How to Download and Install MSI Afterburner Safely

Downloading MSI afterburner software is very much easy, but we must download it from a trusted source. Many of our computer users, in order to get more advanced features, download from pirated sites and download an illegal copy of the software, which has the virus and can cause a security threat too. We must download it from a trusted source to avoid any type of malware or corrupted files. The installation process is very easy and can be done by any beginner.

It is a user-friendly process, which makes it to accessible by any of the devices. During installation, users are asked for installing the revert unit static server RTSS, which is basically used for the monitoring and displaying the data on the screen, so you must allow this rather than skipping this. Once the software is installed, it will launch by itself and run with the default setting. If you are expert enough to change the setting, you can otherwise leave it as they are.

By default, no overclocking is enabled. Overclocking is basically the process in which we use the custom settings to run our system more than its capabilities. If you are a beginner, so you can slowly and gradually enable the setting, not at once enable this and do make a change of 5% and 10% but not more than this. This will allow your hardware and software to settle down slowly and gradually. Proper installation ensures accurate data with unincorrupted files, data tracking and smooth gaming experience from the start while maintaining the quality.

Few Changes

• Enable “Framerate” in the Monitoring tab

• Turn on “Show in On-Screen Display”

• Customize overlay position using RTSS

• Adjust font size for better visibility

• Set hotkeys to toggle FPS display

• Enable GPU and CPU usage tracking

• Monitor temperatures alongside FPS

Conclusions

At last, I would say that if you have a high-end PC or a low-spec PC, you should download this software. It will help you a lot to monitor your system’s FPS and also to catch out the main reason behind your bottlenecks and tweaks.