Ok, I looked into the MSI settings, the ticks by all of the framerate report options are highlighted, but when I click on an option in the framerate category, all of the options for that selection are then greyed out. So I am guessing that my Radeon RX 580 does not report in the frame rate category.
Unless someone knows more about the RivaTuner or about the Radeon RX 580, I'll just move on to other things.
Ok, so my gpu definitely reports FPS the standard FPS reporter built into the Riva Stats Tuner show when requested by hotkey, but not in the skin..
I just needed to restart MSI and Riva now the skin is reporting properly.
Yes, that's how MSI AB and RTSS work. I also use them and I remember having to set something to another value, and had to "restart" them. It's not a big deal anyway, it's only MSI AB that you need to close and rerun, as RTSS wil follow suit.
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eclectic-tech wrote: ↑October 31st, 2020, 1:29 am
Hmm, I find myself sometimes forgetting that it is always a good idea to do a restart after making changes
You're not alone CodeCode!
I believe he's talking about having to "restart" of the applications, not Windows - if by any chance you were referring to the latter...
Yincognito wrote: ↑October 31st, 2020, 1:47 am
I believe he's talking about having to "restart" of the applications, not Windows - if by any chance you were referring to the latter...
Well, first off, I restarted Rainmeter - with no joy.
Then going through Riva, I tweaked something that said "restart required" - I did, and viola! FPS reporting according to intentions.
The skin sometimes halts and goes to 0 but simply clicking the mouse anywhere seems to remedy that little thing. Possibly a "focus" thing in the Rain-Brain.
CodeCode wrote: ↑October 31st, 2020, 3:00 am
Well, first off, I restarted Rainmeter - with no joy.
Then going through Riva, I tweaked something that said "restart required" - I did, and viola! FPS reporting according to intentions.
The skin sometimes halts and goes to 0 but simply clicking the mouse anywhere seems to remedy that little thing. Possibly a "focus" thing in the Rain-Brain.
I don't think it's a focus thing. MSI AB (actually RTSS) by default detects Rainmeter as a Direct3D / OpenGL application, which more or less doesn't make much sense since they are desktop applications and not full screen D3D ones:
MSI AB 3D Apps.jpg
This can be corrected by the user by excluding those desktop apps from detection, by setting their detection level to None (this is mentioned on both their forums and I think in the tooltips):
RTSS D3D Apps.jpg
In other words, Rainmeter (or other desktop apps, i.e. those running "in Windows" or "in windowed mode") shouldn't even have to display a FPS rate, as it's not a full screen game or something like that. Obviously, that's up to the user to decide whether they want the detection / FPS display or not.
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CodeCode wrote: ↑November 1st, 2020, 3:11 am
I have nothing in that section...
Capture.JPG
Am I missing something, in the functionality here with Riva?
Well, you have nothing there because you didn't add any application there in the first place. You have to add them in order to have something in that section. Generally, you'd want all the desktop applications that display, say, the FPS when they shouldn't or when it obstructs the "normal" viewport of that application, e.g. a video player.
P.S. One example where detecting a desktop application as a D3D one is undesirable is if you want to capture the desktop screen while in desktop mode (i.e. not in a full screen game). You can't record your desktop screen if there's a running desktop application currently being detected as a D3D app, because then MSI AB / RTSS expects the screen to be in D3D mode as well, which it obviously is not, since you're still "in Windows", so to speak.
