Windows 10: MSI Afterburner not detecting GPU on Windows 11/10

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MSI Afterburner is the most used graphics card software. Usually, it works seamlessly, however, at times, you may find that your MSI Afterburner is not detecting GPU on Windows systems – and everything is greyed out. In this article, we are going to talk about this issue in detail and see what should be done […]

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MSI Afterburner doesn't affect GPU

Do you have Afterburner setup to start at boot?




Also do you have your profile(with the fan curve you want) set to run at boot?

1. Profile number chosen.
2. Click Windows icon to run at startup
3. Click/close lock icon

 

Latest MSI Afterburner Betas & Updates

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 11 (14248) Download

AfterBurner 4.6.0 Beta 11

• Added fan control support for AMD Adrenalin 2019 drivers family. Please take a note that AMD Adrenalin 2019 drivers adjust fan speed in PWM duty cycle mode but fan speed monitoring is provided in RPM only, which means that you cannot read back exact programmed fan speed in %. Due to this limitation, MSI Afterburner is reporting fan speed as % of maximum RPM instead of real fan duty cycle when default AMD auto fan control is in use. So monitored fan speed % can slightly mismatch programmed fan speed curve if you’re using default AMD automatic fan control.
• Fixed low-level GPU usage monitoring for AMD Polaris GPU family. Software SMC registers offset is no longer hardcoded, offset detection algorithm is more future proof now. Please take a note that it will not fix zero GPU load issue when “Enable unified GPU usage monitoring” option is enabled. This option implementation is based on low-level DirectX performance counters, which require OS and display driver WDDM versions to match. Current AMD drivers are WDDM 2.5 so this performance counter is only working when you’re under WDDM 2.5 OS (Windows October Update). If you’re under older OS version, this performance counter won’t work unless you downgrade to WDDM 2.4 driver (18.9.3 or older).
• Now CPU topology info (i.e. each logical CPU mapping to physical CPU package and core) is displayed in system info window
• Now mandatory MSI Afterburner installation option is greyed out and cannot be unchecked during installation
• Now 64 –bit Visual C++ 2008 runtimes are also installed by MSI Afterburner installer. This should fix the issues with inability to open OC Scanner window on the system with no runtimes installed (typically no RTSS installed)
• Right anchor voltage/frequency curve adjustment mode (<Ctrl> + point drag) is now working properly when maximum voltage limit is greater than the maximum point voltage
• Updated database entries with final subsystem IDs for MSI 2080Ti Lightning family

 

Latest MSI Afterburner Betas & Updates

Latest MSI Afterburner Beta is available:

MSI Afterburner v4.6.0 beta 9 (build 13338)

• Voltage/frequency curve editor is now updated on new GPU selection or closed if you select a GPU with no Voltage/Frequency curve control support, so you don’t need to reopen the editor when tuning the curve for multiple GPUs
• Improved hardware control shared memory interface:
• Now hardware control shared memory is immediately updated on selecting new GPU from GPU quick selection panel in GUI. It is no longer necessary to apply the settings in order to make new GPU selection visible to external applications connected to hardware control shared memory. So you may switch between multiple GPUs and test them from external overclocking scanner without closing and reopening it for each new GPU
• New hardware control shared memory interface command allows MSI Afterburner to refresh Voltage/Frequency curve editor to refresh the curve in real time per external application request
• Updated OC scanner is now refreshing Voltage/Frequency curve in real time during scanning process, so you may see how the scanner is locking voltage points and tuning each point of the curve while searching for the maximum stable GPU clock

MSI Afterburner 4.6.0 Beta 9 (13338) Download