MSI Afterburner freezes and doesn't recognize card, alternatives

Mining
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Hey guys,
I’m using MSI Afterburner since a few months, runs good so far but I found there some strange issues:

  • why do I have to connect a monitor once to the GPU so Afterburner is able to change the clocks and MEM, does anybody know a workaround for this?
  • when the system is running with OC settings in Afterburner, Afterburner gets really slow and temporary freezes when I click into the window, but it still works properly.
  • is there any similiar software to afterburner in Linux? I really like Linux more then Windows for mining but I also want a software for OC, also commandlinetools would be nice. How do SimpleminingOS and EthOS do the overclocking?

BR xMines

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You do not have to connect a monitor to any GPU directly.

Computer does not have the best CPU and RAM I guess. So it takes some time for processing to occur.

No idea about Linux but others do use Linux so they might be able to help!

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but that makes no sense, why it runs perfectly fine when I intially run Afterburner only afer OC’ing and running some time it appears. Also the CPU is at 50% load by Afterburner when it freezes.

So Afterburner is able to manage your GPUs even when theire was never one monitor connected to the GPU? As soon as I did it once Afterburner can handle the gpu.

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Same thing happens to me. I don’t really worry about it. Just be patient otherwise your computer will crash like mine does :frowning:

Correct

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We talk about AMD GPUs? Hm for me not :confused:

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Oh sorry. I have all NVIDIA cards