Running MSI Afterburner / an overlay to boost FPS
Also searched as: msi afterburner fps · rivatuner boost · fps overlay boost · afterburner increases fps · rtss fps boost
What it does
The belief that running a monitoring tool like MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner — or its on-screen overlay — makes a game run faster.
The honest verdict
A gauge reads the engine; it does not drive the car. Afterburner and RTSS measure framerate, temps, and usage — and measuring changes nothing about how many frames your GPU draws. The on-screen overlay actually costs a sliver of performance to render each frame (usually a fraction of a percent, more if you stack heavy graphs). The real worth of these tools is information — spotting a thermal or VRAM wall you can then act on. As a frame booster, there is nothing to measure.
How Compy treats it
Compy won't recommend it. If you're curious anyway: change one thing at a time, measure it on your own rig, and revert unless it's clearly better — that loop is exactly what Compy is built around.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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