What happened to my Afterburner?

Today I started my machine and hit up a game, just to notice that MSI Afterburner was only monitoring the GPU utilization and Fan speed (which it doesn't anyway, just sitting at 0)

I didn't change any settings, so I thought that they somehow just restarted. After looking through the monitoring tab in the settings though, the only things available to be made active were GPU usage, Fan speed, fan tachometer and framerate. All the other options like GPU temp are gone.

I deleted the whole Afterburner folder, even the logs for some reason, and reinstalled 2 times already from the MSI website.

What kind of nonsense is this? One thing is that I can't overclock with it (was going to look into that later) and now, it won't even monitor properly.

 

You have to be running an app that uses the 7970M before opening Afterburner, or else it won't detect it. What I usually do is run Kombustor to activate the 7970M, open Afterburner, and then close Kombustor.

Setting up overclocking is easy too. Follow this guide: http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...-mobility-7970-m17x-r3-illustrated-guide.html

 

Exactly as Hurricane stated, the GPU isn't being utilized and therefore you won't have any active settings for it at that point.

 

Ah, hilarious how simple the solution always is. I set some apps that I have running in the background to the HD4K yesterday... There was my mysterious issue Thanks guys.

Also, thanks for the link, OC is now unlocked