MSI Afterburner and OSD server

bpoilspill · Sep 22, 2011

Here's my dilemma. I have a DV7-4171us, it has a hd5470. I've overclocked the GPU successfully with awesome results. I'm currently using msi afterburner. My issue is I can't get the damn OSD server to shut down, it just keeps restarting when closed. Another issue is is that it's one of the only programs that can identify my GPU and be able to overclock. Anyone have any suggestions or another program?

Janus67 · Oct 8, 2011

Open Afterburner and go to Settings. Go to the On Screen Display tab

Click 'More' and turn off 'start with Windows'

If you already have the service running at the bottom right you should be able to skip the Afterburner Settings part and go right to that window.

bpoilspill · Oct 21, 2011

Still does it, I set the settings to like yours and it won't close, just restarts.

redduc900 · Oct 21, 2011

In the AB Properties sheet, hold your mouse over the "Toggle On-Screen Display server blocking" field to bring up the built-in help file. Next left click in the field, and select a keyboard hotkey combination to unload the OSD server from memory.

bpoilspill · Oct 21, 2011

Ok that closes it ^ but when I restart, it starts back up again.

Janus67 · Oct 21, 2011

Check in your services.msc to see if it shows up there?

bpoilspill · Oct 21, 2011

Janus67 said:
Check in your services.msc to see if it shows up there?

Checked, doesn't look like it, what would the service name be?

redduc900 · Oct 21, 2011

Re-read the first sentence from the help file...

Additional server process is required to provide some functionality including framerate monitoring, On-Screen Display, screen capture and automatic profiles management. The server will be automatically launched by Afterburner as soon as you enable any of the features listed above. You will not be able to shut down the server manually while these features are in use, that is by design of Afterburner

And like Janus mentioned, make sure to uncheck Start with Windows.

Aleroniponi · May 31, 2012

Thanks!

redduc900 said:
In the AB Properties sheet, hold your mouse over the "Toggle On-Screen Display server blocking" field to bring up the built-in help file. Next left click in the field, and select a keyboard hotkey combination to unload the OSD server from memory.

This solved my problem, and I appreciate it. I'm a little late to the game on this post, but thanks anyways! That pesky on-screen-display server really began to bother me.

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