MSI Afterburner Doesn't Apply Settings at Startup

[Zarathustra[H]]

So, I just built a system for my stepson.

I don't want him to have to run Afterburner and apply the settings I've arrived at every time he wants to run a game.

On previous builds I've done recently (mine, one for a friend, one for my other stepson) the "Apply Settings at Startup" has worked just perfectly. Now it isn't.

Any suggestions at all?

Specs below:
NZXT Phantom 410 Case (red)
AMD Phenom II X6 @3.9Ghz
MSI 990FXA-GD80
8 GB (2x4GB) Corsair Vengeance
Gigabyte Geforce GTX460 1GB@870 core, 2000ram
SeaSonic M12II 620 Bronze 620W
1 TB WD Black 7200rpm drive
Corsair H50 Cooler
Windows 7 Home Premium x64

I've tried everything. Even found something in the Afterburner release notes about needing the 2008 visual C++ redistributable package, which I have installed and still no dice.

Stepson is coming home from spending his holidays at his dads on Wednesday, and I'd like to have the rig perfect for presentation when he gets here, so any help at all is appreciated.

If I can't solve the Afterburner issues, is there maybe another overclocking tool that I can use to trigger the settings at system boot time?

Much obliged,
Matt

 

[B2BigAl]

I had the same problem. I finally got sick of it and just unintalled afterburner. I just let CCC handle everything for me now.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

I had the same problem. I finally got sick of it and just unintalled afterburner. I just let CCC handle everything for me now.

Hmm.

Interesting, thank you.

This system uses a GTX460. Can Nvidsia drivers do the same? Will they allow for settings to be applied on boot?

I vaguely remember something called coolbits that allowed overclocking in the Nvidia drivers, but that was years ago. Does coolbits still work?

 

[-Sn1PeR-]

I'm assuming you are saving it as a profile at the bottom (ie. click the 1 and then hit save)? That's the only suggestion I've got... Even if you are just applying a fan profile at startup it still needs to be set as an overclocking profile, saved as a profile at the bottom and the apply overclocking at system startup light needs to be on.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

I'm assuming you are saving it as a profile at the bottom (ie. click the 1 and then hit save)? That's the only suggestion I've got... Even if you are just applying a fan profile at startup it still needs to be set as an overclocking profile, saved as a profile at the bottom and the apply overclocking at system startup light needs to be on.

Yep, done that.

Thank you though.

Just doesn't work.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

So, this suggests that I have applied it correctly, but when I reboot, its back to stock settings, until I manually run Afterburner, and enter the UAC password

This is getting really frustrating.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Just tried the latest beta (2.2.0 beta 9) and still nothing.

Really annoying.

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Heh,

I just checked my other stepsons system I built last year around this time. I had thought it was working all along. Turns out it wasn't either.

Video card is an MSI nvidia designed GTX470 running version 2.0.0 of Afterburner.

I wonder if the "apply at system startup" feature of Afterburner is working for anyone...

 

[Zarathustra[H]]

Makes me think even more that the solution here is to use something else other than Afterburner.

 

[LuminaryJanitor]

I wonder if the "apply at system startup" feature of Afterburner is working for anyone...

Yes, it is.

Is the configuration you're trying to apply set as the 3D profile under Settings -> Profiles?

 

[Teenyman45]

Apply at Start up worked on my 5xxx trifire and works with my single GTX 580. The only problems I had with auto start were that the bitcoin mining profile was NOT a stable boot profile... so auto start was actually causing me some issues and I had to disable it then. Right now, I have 4 different 580 profiles (with the default, profile 3, being stock clocks and a custom fan profile). I never had to enter any sort of passwords with regards to Afterburner though.

Try using a different version of Afterburner, or disabling that password protect when it comes to Afterburner, or both. Otherwise it looks like you will need to write a little script that initializes afterburner, turns on the profile, and enters the UAC.

 

[Astral Abyss]

My guess is UAC is keeping it from running. Easy test... turn off UAC and reboot. If settings stick you solved the mystery.

The other thing it could be is that you may need to check Start With Windows and Minimize to System Tray to get it running during bootup... well the minimize is optional.

 

[u3b3rg33k]

I wonder if the "apply at system startup" feature of Afterburner is working for anyone...

After I disabled CCC overdrive, and enabled unofficial overclocking, I've been having good luck with MSI AB (latest beta). my 6950 (unlocked) currently runs @ 910MHz/1320MHz/1175mV, thanks to AB - even the ULPS still works, all I had to do to make that work was not set a 2D profile. And yes, that feature is working fine for me.