Both EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner software contains the file rtsshooks.dll. Rtsshooks.dll supports the overclocking utility of EVGA Precision and MSI Afterburner. The DLL file allows the software to modify its graphics card. The features of the graphics card include the GPU clock speed, GPU voltage, Memory clock speed and Fan speed. Thus rtsshooks.dll also looks after the adjustment of these features. GPU stands for graphics processing unit. GPU is an electronic circuit which is responsible in manipulating and altering memory to speed up the creation of images in a frame buffer. GPU is used in embedded systems, mobile phones, personal computers, workstations and game consoles. The rtsshooks.dll supports GPU in manipulating computer graphics. GPU is part of the video card or the motherboard of the computer. Through rtsshooks.dll, all the adjustments made can be saved in a number of profiles. Then the user can give hotkeys to these profiles which allows him or her to switch to different settings.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. rtsshooks.dll. is used by EVGA Precision / MSI Afterburner, If you shut down rtsshooks.dll, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop rtsshooks.dll, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is EVGA Precision / MSI Afterburner, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed rtsshooks.dll

A process usually a part of an installed application such as EVGA Precision / MSI Afterburner, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if rtsshooks.dll. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that rtsshooks.dll, belongs to, in this case EVGA Precision / MSI Afterburner