Msi afterburner and “memory”

[Mr. Big.Biggs]

Was using msi afterburner today to monitor my system during gameplay. The graph titled “memory usage” is pegged consistently throughout the game (max 10750) . I maintain smooth play and “great visuals “ throughout.

Exactly what is this monitoring and do I need to tweak something to get that Down?

Thanks!

[Sn8ke_iis]

Was using msi afterburner today to monitor my system during gameplay. The graph titled “memory usage” is pegged consistently throughout the game (max 10750) . I maintain smooth play and “great visuals “ throughout.

Exactly what is this monitoring and do I need to tweak something to get that Down?

Thanks!

 

Happy New Year's Mr. Biggs!

 

As you scroll down under the monitor tab in the Afterburner GUI's properties you'll see two relevant stats. RAM usage is right under CPU power and is for your motherboard's or system RAM usage. As you scroll down past GPU temperature and GPU usage you'll see Memory usage.. This is tracking usage for your video card's RAM or VRAM. As the 2080 Ti has 11GB you are G2G.

 

In the OSD in the screenshot I uploaded you can see GPU and MEM in green. In my OSD I have it set up to show MEM usage as well as the clock speed.

 

On a related note, on the GPU line of the OSD I have temperature, utilization, frame buffer (FB), and then clock speed. As long as that is not maxed out, you should not be hitting any bottlenecks. Of course as always YMMV and it can depend greatly on variables like texture settings, resolution, and AA settings.

 

I just sat down to run a few benchmarks I keep procrastinating and saw your question. MSI Afterburner is a great tool, especially the OSD when paired with a hot key toggle. If you haven't recently, make sure you delete the:

 

C:\Users\user*\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\fxo

C:\Users\user*\Saved Games\DCS.openbeta\metashaders2

 

That should wipe the VRAM for a clean slate after updating, changing graphic settings, or switching maps and modules.

 

Hope that helps.

 

[Mr. Big.Biggs]

What are you using for that display? The one I use shows on my monitor but not onscreen.

Thanks

[Sn8ke_iis]

What are you using for that display? The one I use shows on my monitor but not onscreen.

Thanks

 

Good question! As the software is constantly updated there really isn't adequate documentation for Afterburner and Riva Tuner unfortunately. There is this to get you started but it is out of date.

 

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/6756633/pdf-msi-afterburner-user-manual

 

There are also the forums on 3Dguru.com about Afterburner and Riva Tuner.

 

https://forums.guru3d.com/forums/msi-afterburner-overclock-application-discussion.55/

 

https://forums.guru3d.com/forums/rivatuner-statistics-server-rtss-forum.54/

 

The quick and dirty is you need to check the block for Show in On-screen Display under the monitoring tab in the properties GUI.

 

 

To set the hotkey to turn it on and off while gaming you need to press an unused or redundant key like F1 in the Toggle On-Screen Display field. Then you won't change your view while pressing it as that is the standard cockpit view. You can still turn it off and on for other views you just have to press the toggle before.

 

 

Make sure you press APPLY and OK or the changes won't save. And finally, go to the Riva Tuner icon in your system tray and make sure it is toggled on there as shown in the screen snip.

 

 

To customize the font size and colors you kind of just need to play around in the GUI to get familiar with it. The colors are displayed in hexadecimal color codes but you can pull up a palette to choose.

Edited January 2, 2020 by Sn8ke_iis