RivaTuner: how to display info overlay?

I downloaded RivaTuner RTSS 6.20 and I'm trying to display the system info (FPS and the other stuff) in-game, but I can't find any settings to enable this (from what I understand it should be enabled already).

I'm looking up some tutorials but most of them seem to require a tandem program like EVGA PrecisionX or MSI Afterburner. Can't RivaTuner do what it does without these side programs? If yes, how do I get it to show me the info overlay in-game?

Thanks for the help.

 

You have to install MSI Afterburner first, then "RivaTuner" will install automatically. They are linked.

You can choose the "monitor" tab in MSI Afterburner settings. Here you'll see options to display them.

 

Double check and make sure "show own statistics" is turned on...

 

Thanks guys!
So, yeah, I had to turn on that option "Show own statistics". With that set to ON, it shows me only the FPS (it can't show any more than that, I seem to understand).
With MSI Afterburner, I got it to show all the other stuff.

I'm doing this as part of the investigation on what the hell is wrong with my computer. Once I have collected enough evidence I'll present it to you all guys and see if anybody can figure out why my new super computer is performing worse than my old four years old one.

 

RTSS is a local OSD statistics server. By itself it can only display FPS because it hooks D3D/OGL. You need an actual hardware monitoring program like MSI Afterburner or HWiNFO64 to push those stats to RTSS in order for them to show up in the OSD.

 

you're better off going with RTSS and HWinfo64 as all of HWinfo's stats get pushed to RTSS and RTSS will push it to the overlay as its own stats. so you really don't need Afterburner or precision x unless you're overclocking.

 

Thanks, I'll try HWinfo64 today.
I've been using all of these programs I've been recommended on this forum: HWMonitor, GPU-Z, HWinfo64, RTSS, EVGA PrecisionX 16, MSI Afterburner....
I have to admit that I don't know how to properly use some of them.

So far the most useful one has been HWMonitor since I let it create a log of all the stats while the games where running, and in various occasions I managed to have it recording during one of the various massive FPS drops that I've been experiencing, so it should be good as evidence to analyse later.

I'll try HWinfo64+RTSS today and see if I can make a good use of it.

 

Well, I've been checking all the settings in HWiNFO64, but I can't get RTSS to show anything else other than the FPS in game while running both programs...

 

Configure the settings for HWiNFO64 sensor window, there should be an RTSS tab where you can turn sensors on or off to be displayed in the OSD

 

You need to start RTSS before Hwinfo, else the tab will be grayed out.

In the settings for Hwinfo there is tab called RTSS or OSD (cant check now). There will be a full list of every possible thing to monitor. Choose which value to show, if it should be labeled and line and row number for desired appearence.

A bit dated but this got me started once:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1229915/how-to-cpu-and-gpu-usage-along-with-fps-in-game

If you start Fraps before Hwinfo the data will be pulled into the log-file as well.

An easy way to plot graphs from Hwinfo-logs is to use a custom LogViewer:
http://www.hwinfo.com/forum/Thread-LogViewer-for-HWINFO-is-available

 

Got it, thanks a lot guys! Hopefully I get some interesting results while logging.