Then, just like adding a single item, all you have to do is tick “Show in On-Screen Display”. You can do that 2 ways, either by holding Ctrl and selecting multiple graphs individually or by holding Shift and selecting them in a group from the first click to the next. Or, the better way would be select multiple and add/remove them with a single click. To add/remove graphs from your OSD, you can either go through 1-by-1 and tick/untick “Show in On-Screen Display”.

That’s where you’ll be enabling (or disabling) the statistics you want to be displayed on your OSD. The section we’re most interested in on this page is “Active hardware monitoring graphs”. Once you’re in Monitoring, you’ll notice a ton of various settings and options. In the Settings window, navigate to Monitoring – it’s the 3rd option in the top tabs. First, you’ll want to open Afterburner and click the Settings icon (the little cog below Fan Speed (%)). Make sure you turn off any other GPU tuning utility you might be running while Afterburner is on. Once the install is done, run both MSI Afterburner and RTSS. Once you’ve downloaded Afterburner, you’ll want to run the installer – obviously, right? When you’re installing Afterburner, you’ll get to a page that prompts you to “Choose Components”, make sure both MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner Statistics Server are checked before moving on. Not only can you use Afterburner for the OSD, but you can also use it to change things like your GPU clocks and GPU fan speeds – but those are topics for another article. It’s bar-none the best GPU tuning utility you could use and just so happens to come packaged with Rivatuner Statistics Server (RTSS) which we’ll need for the OSD. If you want something more professional then you can look at this article about hardware monitor tools from VSS Monitoring. This combination of programs is generally the quickest and easiest way to get an overlay working and are awesome tools.

For the purpose of this article, we’re going to be using MSI’s Afterburner and Rivatuner Statistics Server (RTSS).

Afterburner hardware monitor