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Msi afterburner is what I use to display information to my keyboard while gaming. It has an on screen display option as well. Can tell you pretty much everything you need to know. I use it to tell me my gpu usage, temps, voltage, fan speed in rpm and percentage. Cpu usage and temps for all core and my ram being used.

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Playclaw is a way of easily viewing the same information afterburner puts out without the tiny weird text.

You can change the text in afterburner.

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I wouldn't know that because I've never really gotten anything in afterburner to even work :/

Well some games with anticheat protection see afterburner as a way to cheat and it blocks it. For example it wont work on bf4, unless you're using a keyboard with a display. It's just the way the games are coded for cheat protection, not a flaw in afterburner itself. 

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Well some games with anticheat protection see afterburner as a way to cheat and it blocks it. For example it wont work on bf4, unless you're using a keyboard with a display. It's just the way the games are coded for cheat protection, not a flaw in afterburner itself. 

Yeah but it didn't work on the hundred some games I tried it on

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Yeah but it didn't work on the hundred some games I tried it on

It's been so long since I've actually used the on screen display I can't even remember what the best way to get it working is. I just know I've always used it to monitor my laptops and desktop.

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Well some games with anticheat protection see afterburner as a way to cheat and it blocks it. For example it wont work on bf4, unless you're using a keyboard with a display. It's just the way the games are coded for cheat protection, not a flaw in afterburner itself. 

Setting BF4 to use x86 instead of x64 will let afterburner work with it.

An alternative to fraps that sees native x64 games is DXtory.

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Setting BF4 to use x86 instead of x64 will let afterburner work with it.

An alternative to fraps that sees native x64 games if DXtory.

Yea but who wants to run bf4 on 32bit. I bought 64 bit for a reason :P

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Yea but who wants to run bf4 on 32bit. I bought 64 bit for a reason :P

When there is NO peformance penalty at all, would you'd still care?

 

At least on my system in my sig. and using my old 7950, there was no performance penalty, why would it then matter if it was running in 32/64, your system and everything else stays the same, only the game client changes, and as said, no difference at all. I would mention a performance hit if it were the case using 32bit vs 64bit executables in BF4.

 

As for an alternate program. Besides MSI afterburner. > DXtory does both 64bit and 32bit games and works great.

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When there is NO peformance penalty at all, would you'd still care?

 

At least on my system in my sig. and using my old 7950, there was no performance penalty, why would it then matter if it was running in 32/64, your system and everything else stays the same, only the game client changes, and as said, no difference at all. I would mention a performance hit if it were the case using 32bit vs 64bit executables in BF4.

 

As for an alternate program. Besides MSI afterburner. > DXtory does both 64bit and 32bit games and works great.

I know all of this, I was making a joke thus the  ":p"

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You don't need to be running BF4 in x86 for afterburner on screen display to work. Run the latest Afterburner beta and you're good to go, It just doesn't work for mantle users currently.

                                                                                   

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I know all of this, I was making a joke thus the  ":p"

Must have missed it :P

 

You don't need to be running BF4 in x86 for afterburner on screen display to work. Run the latest Afterburner beta and you're good to go, It just doesn't work for mantle users currently.

Yeah, this too, I have been so used to Dxtory I forgot about it.

 

Capturing Mantle - I managed to capture by using Openbroadcast's  "monitor" capture (instead of game/window capture,.whatever is on top of desktop, not capturing any specific windows or clients)

Then putting Mantle/DX in "Fake fullscreen" which is called windowed fullscreen in BF4, performance is as it should be, overlayed over the desktop and capturing whatever is displayed @ 1080p, being my game.

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