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hey what's going on everyone I was just overlooking some comments in the last video and if you want to know how to toggle an on screen display like the one we had in that video showing CPU utilization right across each thread we had memory usage from both graphics card and the system we had GPU temperatures CPU temperatures we even had a frame rate up there and all that's done through MSI Afterburner and a rivatuner statistics so I have msi afterburner down below linked in the video description and rivatuner is kind of packaged with that and I'll show you in the tutorial here in a second how to install it properly and set it up where you can toggle it customize the way it looks and display the variable as you wanted to so hopefully this helps if you have any other questions you know be sure to leave us down below and I'll do my best to answer them but for now here is in the tutorial alright so I'm going to assume that you don't have msi afterburner already installed so we'll start from scratch in case you haven't even heard of the software before I'm going to open up universe sandbox just to show you that I don't have it currently running on this system when you do have it running and active in your system tray then you will be able to see the on-screen display and that will in turn show you what parts of your system are being utilized and to what extent and you can vary this to an extent as well so there are different settings in this like I was saying earlier that you can control so you see here we have nothing to the left you can control where it shows up as well but I prefer the left side it's usually a bit more empty and that's where we're going to start so close the game back out and the first thing we're going to do would open up Chrome and I'm going to navigate to MSI Afterburner say MSI page here now you're gonna want to scroll down to the tab that says download and download afterburner now there are two separate programs here we're gonna want to download but the second won't be kind of packaged in this first one and I'll show you what that looks like here so go ahead and save the zip file we're gonna open it up just double click here and extract it it's gonna replace what I already had that was the download file to begin with and when that finishes let's go ahead and run it so click Next accept the terms the License Agreement probably agree to some weird stuff I'm just kidding next now this is important keep msi afterburner and rivatuner statistics server checked both of these you don't just want this one because then you won't be able to monitor via an on-screen display system used to do so keep both checked click Next doesn't matter really where you save this let's click Next and then install so it will install two separate programs again it will install msi afterburner and then it will install rivatuner statistics and here it is again next pretty much the same deal next install ok go ahead and finish that and you can just start msi afterburner ok and this is the official msi program now you can view system usages through afterburner that's important to note you can actually detach this window and you can see here you can see pretty much everything so we have GPU temperature GPU usage power loads memory clocks core clocks memory usage all the good stuff and you can actually add or take away from this is what you see all of these here we have an i-5 8400 in this system so we have 6 threads that's why you see CPU 1 through 6 here and that will of course scale according to how many cores and threads you have at your CPUs disposal so you can control this separately but we're gonna not focus on this because you're more or less interested right if you're watching this video and how to see the on-screen display while you're playing a video game so we're gonna close this out once you do that it will automatically attach back to the program now what you want to do is click the Settings button right here below your toggles and this will open up an afterburner properties window the first time you want to click on is monitoring and this will show you again what we were just looking at right so every variable to consider for the most part even frame rates right 1% only 1% loads those are recently added so a lot of things to analyze here and observe over time but none of these are gonna be displayed by default over our game of choice and that's what we're gonna change here so what I do is not a lot of these it only matter just ones that I'm not particularly interested in temperatures and usages are important I'm not worried too much about memory clock core clock already know what that's gonna be Paige file usage yeah we'll keep that one up for now and then you can see here I had point one percent of one percent lows included as well as the frame rate average but we'll keep those disabled for now because you do it the toggle these if you want them to be actually accurate you can do that in this program but we're more or less worried about the OSD stuff in game so we've got what we want but that's not the full story and this is something I wasn't sure about for a while I kept in google this and try to figure out how to get it to show up on the rivatuner statistics application so we have all these things activated but they're not showing in the display and what you want to do is pull up an on screen display you can toggle it you can just set a you know a certain let's just do ctrl shift D it's probably not being used by anything else and that should be good now you can see we have a show in on-screen display now that's important because if we don't select this tab then we aren't going to see any of those usages displayed over our game window so GPU temperature we want seen I mean basically everything we left checked right we want to show an on-screen display so you have to go back through here and make sure that all the ones you've checked all the ones you want to see at least through rivatuner are enabled via the on screen displayed button so keep going through here and turn all of these on and that's the last one okay so we're gonna select okay and another important note you don't want to close afterwards don't hit the X button sometimes that'll completely shut down the software it won't show up in your system tray so you want to double check to make sure you can see I have my system tray open on the bottom right here it's gonna be pretty small let me slide it over so there's my system tray and if I click the minimize button then afterburner excuse me will show up right here and that's good but if I open up afterburner and then I click exit right it disappears for my system tray and so does rivatuner statistics so you have to reopen it via likely the icon on your desktop and there we go and then also you can see we have the Reba tuner software open as well in system tray so minimize it don't exit out of it and you should be good to go so now we're going to pull up universe and box again and hopefully we should see the on screen display here to our left I'll show you guys in a second how you can customize that look make the text bigger or smaller especially if you want to record your screen and you should be good to go I'm not seeing it right now so let's just have it default start with Windows and minimize and there you go so GPU you can see 59 degrees Celsius 27% usage and you can see each of our individual CPU threads all the way down and you can see right here system RAM usage so this is really cool you can see we do a lot of stuff in universe and box two you can see how all of that changes and that's will speed things up a lot right so you can you can monitor all that you see are our six CPU thread here is the one that's being utilized the most and that will of course depend on several variables so if I just increase the mass of the Sun to let's say 100,000 Sun masses then we just wrecked our system for one I think we just yep supernova all right there's a nebula this is a remnant of our solar system now so our Sun's gravitational field like this collapsed on itself and yeah so the cool thing is you can see all this up here but it might be too small for you as of right now so what you can do is click on your system tray and then right-click on Reba tuna or just click on the the icon and this is where you can change quite a bit of the the details of the OSD that you're seeing on the top left here so I'll slide it over you can see how it changes first off if it's too small then you're gonna want to go right here to the on-screen display zoom you can make this as big as you want basically you can see how much that scale that's gonna cover up quite a bit of our game though so I'd recommend it the most maybe right here now and that's plenty you can also change the font you have a vector 3d it's a little difficult to read vector 2d I like a raster just because it's a bit more cohesive easier to see on screen by the way you can change the font of the on screen display itself so if you click under any of these actually vector 2d and 3d won't like to do it but raster 3d there's a small little arrow here you click on that and then you can change the font to whatever you see fit so let's - Tahoma and there you go actually like the other one better it's just a bit easier to read a bit more bold and that that's kind of where I want to leave it right I don't want to change much more than this if I want to add more I can go back into MSI Afterburner and toggle through these select more OSD variables to display but for now I'm happy with the way this looks there's quite a bit here and I'm not gonna go through everything but if you kind of toggle through stuff you'll learn this on your own fairly quickly but getting it up is the difficult part without you know diving through forms and Google searches so hopefully this video helps you out with at least that by the way we set the toggle to control shift key so let's go ahead and give that a shot here and you can see we've just hidden our entire OSD now it's still running in the background so it's still technically there you've just hidden it so if you want to benchmark under certain scenarios but then maybe you want to just play with friends later and you don't want this thing blocking whatever you're playing then you can just use whatever key combination you gave to hide you know kind of toggle the OSD on and off and afterburner to get rid of it when it's not convenient to have it open so yeah tons of versatility here it's pretty low profile bin monitoring system usage and it's really not an intensive application to have running in the background so it won't ski your results to any you know significant extent although I should note that it will be there and it won't be a true 100% representation of what game or what software is utilizing what in terms of system resources so I hope this tutorial again was helpful for those who wanted to see this from the last video and I'll do my best to kind of show this stuff over the screen whenever I'm benchmarking just so you can see exactly what's going on between the hardware and software because frame rates and frame times are great those are that's one side of the equation but actually seeing what is bottlenecking what write what hardware is actually being stressed under certain workloads is the other half of the equation and I think I'm gonna do both from now on again run those in separate scenarios but they're pretty lightweight softwares overall so they're not gonna impact our results too much I would say just in my initial testing here running the OSD on vs. completely closing it out frame rates are basically the same so with that if you guys again have any other questions that's what the comments section is for down below ask those questions and hopefully myself or someone else who knows about this kind of software can help you find the right if you liked this video thumbs up I 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