USER GUIDE

DRAGON CENTER
for Gaming
NOTEBOOK

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Contents
About DRAGON CENTER......................................................................................... 5
DRAGON CENTER Basics........................................................................................ 6
Main Screen............................................................................................................. 6
Information Bar....................................................................................................... 6
Main Menu............................................................................................................... 7
Sub Menu................................................................................................................. 7
Game Optimization................................................................................................. 8
Gaming Mode........................................................................................................... 8
Gaming Mode Option............................................................................................... 8
How to Add Games into Gaming Mode.................................................................... 9
How to Remove Games from Gaming Mode......................................................... 10
How to Enable Gaming Mode................................................................................ 11
User Scenario....................................................................................................... 12
Selecting User Scenario........................................................................................ 12
OC Options............................................................................................................. 13
General Settings................................................................................................... 15
Monitor.................................................................................................................. 16
Game Highlights................................................................................................... 17
How to Share Game Highlights to Social Media .................................................. 18
How to Remove Game Highlights.......................................................................... 19
Installing MSI Companion..................................................................................... 20
Setting MSI Companion......................................................................................... 22
How to Discover MSI Companion.......................................................................... 24
Setting Game Highlights....................................................................................... 25
True Color............................................................................................................. 27
True Color Preset Options..................................................................................... 27
Mystic Light........................................................................................................... 28
Voice Command .................................................................................................... 31
Noise Cancellation................................................................................................ 37
Duet Display.......................................................................................................... 38
Create a New Screen Profile................................................................................. 39
Activating Duet Screen Capture............................................................................ 39
Gaming Gear......................................................................................................... 40
Product Registration............................................................................................ 41
Live Update........................................................................................................... 42

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 System Info........................................................................................................... 43
Microsoft APP....................................................................................................... 44
Battery Master...................................................................................................... 45
Calibrating Battery................................................................................................ 45
Backup.................................................................................................................. 46
Notices.................................................................................................................. 47
Copyright................................................................................................................ 47
Revision History..................................................................................................... 47

4 Contents
About DRAGON CENTER
∙∙ Optimize game settings and enjoy a high quality gaming experience.
∙∙ System performance tuning, you can choose overclock or silent.
∙∙ Monitor system information.
∙∙ Adjust the best display settings for your eyes.
∙∙ Register your MSI products.
∙∙ Control the LED light effects and synchronize effects to your devices.
∙∙ Use utilities to control special features.
∙∙ Set the charging method and calibrate the battery.
∙∙ Backup system.

⚠⚠Important
THE SOFTWARE FEATURES IN THIS USER GUIDE VARY BY
PRODUCT.
THE SCREENSHOTS FOR THE UI IN THIS USER GUIDE ARE FOR
REFERENCE ONLY AND THE ACTUAL UI DESIGN MAY VARY.

About DRAGON CENTER 5

 DRAGON CENTER Basics
Main Screen

⚠⚠Important
The screenshots for the UI in this user guide are for reference only and the actual UI
design may vary.

Main Menu Information Bar

Sub Menu

Operation Panel

Information Bar

Display System Display Gaming

Profile Picture/ Mode Status.
Login/ Logout Display MSI product
currently in use. Click
to enter the control Display mode
page. currently applied.
Switch between
different modes by
selecting a mode
from the drop-down
menu.

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Main Menu

Home

My Device

Support

Tools

Setting

Sub Menu

Collapse Button

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 Game Optimization
The Gaming Mode feature will optimize the computer system, monitor, cooler and
other peripherals to provide the best gaming experience.

Gaming Mode
Select Gaming Mode in the sub Gaming Mode switch
menu to enter Gaming Mode
control panel Refresh software
list button

Applications Optimized by Gaming Mode

Gaming Mode Option

Game Mode switch and option settings are available in the upper right corner of each
game icon. You can choose whether the game applies Game Mode, such as System
Performance, True Color, Touchpad Disabled, Mystic Light and Game Highlight while
playing the game.

On/Off the switch to

apply Gaming mode Option Settings

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How to Add Games into Gaming Mode
Click Add Game button. Then select the game's .exe file.

Add Game button

Add Game button

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 How to Remove Games from Gaming Mode
1. Click Remove Game icon.

Remove Game button

2. When prompted, click Yes button to confirm this deletion, or click Cancel button
to cancel this process.

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How to Enable Gaming Mode
You can enable the Gaming Mode to adjust settings for System Performance, True
Color, Nahimic, Mystic Light and Game Highlights while playing the game.
1. Select the installed game icon in Home > Gaming Mode.

2. Check Gaming Mode Options.

3. Turn on the switch for the game.
On/Off the switch Option Settings

4. Turn on Gaming Mode switch.

Gaming Mode switch

5. Play the game.

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 User Scenario
Selecting User Scenario
The DRAGON CENTER has default scenarios and customized preset options.
1. Go to Home > User Scenario.

2. Select one of the options.

▪▪Extreme Performance – A configuration that boosts the highest possible

performance for AAA games, and enables overclocking (You can click the gear icon
to open the OC Option panel).
▪▪Balance - MSI recommended settings for average users.
▪▪Silent - A configuration that allows system to run smoothly with minimum
loading.
▪▪Super Battery - A power-saving mode that lowers the power consumption for
basic needs.
▪▪User - Customize the performance level and fan speed as desired.

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OC Options
In the lower right corner of Extreme Performance, click the setting icon to open
OC Options.

Click to set OC Options

Overclocking CPU
Only GT models with K-SKU CPU have this function.

Adjust the frequency of each CPU core

Enable/Disable Cooler Save changes

Boost feature
Discard changes

Default values

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 Overclocking GPU
This function is only available for 1050 GPU or higher.

Adjust the frequency of VRAM Clock

Adjust the frequency of Core Clock

Enable/Disable Cooler Save changes

Boost feature Discard changes

Default values

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General Settings
You can enable/disable some general settings in this panel.

⚠⚠Important
The features in the General Settings vary by product.
Windows Key - Click to enable or disable the Windows key on the keyboard.
Switch Key - Click to switch the Windows key and the Fn key on the keyboard.
WebCam - Click to enable or disable the webcam.
Display OverDrive - Only available on certain displays. Once enabled, the response
time of the will be overclocked.
USB Lighting - Control the USB port lighting mode.
GPU Switch - Click to switch the MSHybrid Graphics Mode and the Discrete Graphics
Mode.
Crosshair Display - Click to enable or disable the Crosshair Display. Click the gear
icon to open the True Color control and choose the type of crosshair and its color.

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 Monitor
Monitor feature provides a custom hardware monitor gadget to display the system
status.

Click to clean up the disk

Select Monitor in the sub menu to

enter Monitor page

Click to free up memory

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Game Highlights
Game Highlights feature will automatically capture clips of amazing gameplay
moments. It looks for certain events which occurs in games, and saves the captured
videos in your local folder.

Display certain
Gameplay event clips
display zone
Supported games
displayed in the
drop-down list Setting

Video timeline Auto captured Game video

event clips record list

⚠⚠Important
Game Highlights feature only supports certain series. In addition, this function is
currently available in Fortnite, League of Legends, and Apex Legends.

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 How to Share Game Highlights to Social Media
Game Highlights feature supports uploading videos directly to social media, such as
YouTube, Twitter, and Discord.

Options to open files

in the folder and to
directly share clips to
social media

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How to Remove Game Highlights
You can choose to delete game highlight video which includes several clips or to
remove one single game highlight clip from the whole game video.

Click here to
remove the game
highlight video

Click here to
remove the game
highlight clip

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 Installing MSI Companion
Before you enable Game Highlights function, you should install MSI Companion first.
1. Go to Home > Game Highlights.
2. When a prompt window appears, click Download MSI Companion app.
Click here

3. Execute MSI Companion-Installer.exe, and click Next to continue the process.

4. Select I have read and accepted Overwolf’s terms and Privacy Policy.

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5. After finishing MSI companion and Overwolf Installation, click Launch to activate
MSI companion.

How to Activate MSI Companion

You can activate MSI companion by one of the following methods:
∙∙ Open Overwolf in System Tray, and click MSI Companion .
∙∙ Press ctrl + tab in games to open Overwolf, and click MSI Companion .
∙∙ Click MSI Companion on the desktop.

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 Setting MSI Companion
After activating MSI Companion app, you will see a pop-up window displaying detailed
settings for Quick Settings, System Monitor, and Audio Monitor.

On Quick Settings tab

Linked to User Scenario Linked to True Color
setting in Dragon Center setting in Dragon Center

Adjust system volume Adjust mouse sensitivity

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On System Monitor tab
Select the system
performance you
want to display on
the screen
Turn on System
Monitor to display Turn on to save log
system performance files for system
in games monitoring

You can choose one from these

two display ways, it will show
an in-game overlay with the
pattern you select.
Adjust transparency for
monitor background
∙∙ Default

Select black/ white

monitor background

∙∙ Minimize

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 How to Discover MSI Companion
1. Go to Home > Game Highlights.
2. When a prompt window appears, click Discover MSI Companion app.
Click here

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Setting Game Highlights
∙∙ Select Game Highlights in the sub menu, click setting .
Click here

∙∙ Adjust settings for Games, Capture, and Storage.

On Games tab

On/Off Game Highlights

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 On Capture tab
Adjust hotkey settings
for manual capture

On Storage tab

Select Auto Manage/ Manual

Manage for file size and disk
space settings

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True Color
With True Color function, you can adjust the best screen gamma, saturation,
brightness and contrast settings for your eyes.
The Ture Color feature supports games in windowed mode.

Select True Color in the sub menu

to enter True Color control panel

Select the quick screen color option

True Color Preset Options

When you click the preset option, the screen settings will be immediately applied to
your computer. The detailed options are as follows:

⚠⚠Important
The features in the True Color vary by product.
▪▪Gamer - For playing games.
▪▪Anti-Blue - For reducing the amount of blue light that is emitted from the
display to reduce eye fatigue.
▪▪sRGB - For accurate color when viewing images on websites.
▪▪Designer - For design applications.
▪▪Office - For office and productivity applications.
▪▪Movie - For watching movies.
▪▪AdobeRGB - For accurate color when viewing images and other media created in
the Adobe RGB color space.
▪▪Display P3 - For accurate color in wide-gamut cinema mode.

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 Mystic Light
Mystic Light feature allows you to control LED light effects of MSI & partner products.
For some earlier products, you can go to product download page to download the
applicable LED control software.

⚠⚠Important
The Mystic Light feature is only available when MSI Gear devices are connected.

When you click the Apply

button, the LED effect settings
can be saved to Profile1~3,
and you can switch to different
settings by clicking Profile1~3.

Device
synchronization
Click to access
Voice Command
All Synchronization Ambient Link

LED item drop-down

menu
Apply button

Light effect, LED color,

speed and brightness
lever selectors

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∙∙ Device synchronization - In this section, you may synchronize LED light effect to
your devices.

▪▪All synchronization - Click the big chain icon on the left side of all the devices.

Click the big chain icon

▪▪To synchronize devices - Click the chain icon above device icon. When the chain
icon turns red, it indicates that the device has synchronized LED effect settings
with other devices.

Chain icon - indicates the device Broken-chain icon - indicates the

has been synchronized. device is not synchronized.

▪▪Individual - You can also change settings for one single device. To do that, click
the chain icon and the color will turn gray as below.

Device icon - click it to change LED effect setting for this

device. When the icon turns red, it indicates the device
you’re currently setting.

∙∙ LED item drop-down menu - Click to select the LED item on the device. The LED
effects vary depending on your LED item selection.

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 ∙∙ Light effect drop-down menu
Click it to select LED light effects. Please note
that the options about light effects would be more
or less depending on the devices you have. It will
only list the light effects which are available for all
applicable devices.

∙∙ LED Color selector - In this section, you may select the color for one single light
effect (Stack, Breathing, Flashing etc.).

The outer arc is a custom color picker and the inner arc is the default color picker
that cannot be changed. You can simply change the LED color by clicking on the
color on the outer or inner arc. To store a custom color, click one of the color slots
on the outer arc to store the color of your choice.

You can specify a color by editing an

RGB (red, green, blue) color value
between 0 and 255.

Drag the brightness slider up to increase brightness or

drag down to decrease brightness.

Use the Hue Circle to choose the color you want. The color you choose
will be displayed on the center circle.

∙∙ Effect speed and brightness level

Drag the sliders to adjust the LED

light effect switching speed and light
brightness.
Please note that these functions will only
be available if your device supports it.

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Voice Command
Mystic Light allows you to use your voice to change LED effects.

⚠⚠Important
The Voice Command feature is only available for the Notebook with the Per Key RGB
keyboard or connected to MSI Gear devices.
To start Voice Command, you need to install Windows 10 Speech Voices.
1. Go to Windows Settings, select Time & Language.

2. Select Add a preferred language, then add English and the voice packages.
3. Change your default speech options to English by selecting Speech.

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 How to Control Mystic Light via Voice Command (GameGear is not installed)
Go to Home > Mystic Light. Click Voice Command switch in the upper right corner, and
then you can change the LED style by saying Hey Lucky.

Enable Voice Command

Click to open the list of

Hey Lucky commands

A list of Hey Lucky commands

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How to Control Mystic Light via Voice Command (GameGear is installed)
Go to Home > Mystic Light, click setting in the upper right corner. Enable Voice
Command and then you can change the LED style by saying Hey Lucky.
Click here

Enable Voice Command

A list of Hey Lucky commands Click to open the list of

Hey Lucky commands

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 Ambient Link
With the Ambient Link feature, it will provide visual color feedback on Philips Hue and
Nanoleaf depending on what is happening in games. To use Ambient Link, you need to
follow the instructions below to complete the link setup.

⚠⚠Important
The Ambient Link feature is only available for the Notebook with the Per Key RGB
keyboard or connected to MSI Gear devices.

Network Requirements
∙∙ The router is broadcasting a 2.4GHz network.
∙∙ The Wi-Fi network is using WPA/WPA2 security.
∙∙ The router is configured for any of the Wi-Fi modes a/b/g/n.

Philips Hue Setup (optional)

1. Plug in your Hue bridge and it will automatically power up.
2. Connect it to the router LAN port.
3. Wait for the two lights to come on and you are good to go. (Left is power light and
center is local network

Nanoleaf Setup (optional)

∙∙ The router is compatible with Bonjour (mDNS).

Select Ambient Link in the sub Click to enter the Ambient

menu to enter Mystic Light menu Link control panel

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Ambient Link Control Panel
Game Mode and Ambient Mode can only be activated one at a time in the Ambient
Link control panel.
∙∙ Game Mode tab

Click to synchronize/ non-

synchronize the game
Synchronization main switch

Click to access the game control panel

Select Game Event,

Back color and brightness

Preview the effect Apply changes

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 ∙∙ Ambient Mode tab
Preview the effect
ON/OFF background
light & music

Apply changes
Click to select an effect
as background light Drag the slider to adjust light
brightness

∙∙ Ambient Link tab

Click to detect Click to switch to Philips

devices Hue and Nanoleaf Status indicator

Click to Re-synchronize Remove Adjust orientation or

synchronize the device position

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Noise Cancellation
The AI-powered noise cancellation is trained through a deep neural network (DNN),
the model is generated with more than 500 million data, simulates the way the
human brain works. When a sound is heard, the model automatically recognizes
and separates the vocal sound from background noises. Hence, filtering out all the
unwanted noise. This feature greatly improves the users’ communication experience.

Select Noise Cancellation in the

sub menu to enter MSI Sound
Tune panel

Enable/ Disable Speaker Noise Enable/ Disable Microphone

Cancellation. Noise Cancellation.

Select Microphone (MSI Sound Tune) in the

communication software.

Select Speaker (MSI Sound Tune) in the

communication software.

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 Duet Display
Duet turns your iOS device & Android phone, tablet, or Chromebook into the most
advanced extra display, and offers unparalleled performance and display quality.

Duet Display Click to review the

Instructions screen profile for 5
seconds
Click to open the Duet Hotkey
Display introduction Screen Profiles
Setting
window

iOS mode Click to remove

the screen profile

Scan the QR code to download

Duet Coach app on your iOS
device and follow the app
instructions to mirror screen.

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Create a New Screen Profile
1. Connect to a second display.
2. Click the New button.
3. Enter the name of this new profile and click the Apply button.

4. Drag through the portion of the display you want to capture.

5. Click the Next Segment button to set maximum 3 segments.

6. Click the Done button.

Activating Duet Screen Capture

1. Connect to a second display.
2. Check the hotkey setting of the screen profile and remember it.
3. Run the application.
4. Press the hotkey and the selected portion will be projected on to the second
display.

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 Gaming Gear
This panel allows you to control MSI’s gaming gear and supported third-party devices.

⚠⚠Important
The Gaming Gear feature is only available when MSI Gear devices are connected.

Select Gaming Gear in the sub

menu to enter Gaming Gear menu

Supported devices will be

displayed here. Click to enter the
control panel of the device.

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Product Registration
Register your MSI product to get exclusive updates, quicker service and product
support.

Select My Device in the sub menu

to register your product

Login to your MSI account on this My Devices tab. If you don’t have an MSI account,
please click the Join MSI Member button or use Facebook, Google Plus to login.

Click the Product Register button and fill in the product registration form.

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 Live Update
Live Update feature allows you to scan system and download the latest drivers and
utilities. With Live Update, you don’t need to search the drivers on websites. Live
Update will download the appropriate drivers automatically. Some software/ drivers
will be installed automatically after downloading, please follow the instructions of the
installer.

To use Live Update:

1. Connect your computer to the internet.
2. Go to Support > Live Update.

Click to scan the

system

Select which item you Click to install

want to update.

Utilities and drivers list

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System Info
The System Info provides information about OS, Product Name, Serial Number and
Software information.

To open System Info:

1. Go to Support > System Info.

To export system information:

1. Go to Support > System Info.
2. Click Export System Info button in the upper right corner.
3. Browse to the location where you want to save the new text file, and then click
Save.

To send the serial number to MSI online customer service:

1. Go to Support > System Info.
2. Click Content Transfer button in the upper right corner.
3. Follow customer service’s instructions, and enter 5-digit encryption code.

Click to send the

serial number of the
laptop to MSI online
customer service.

Click to export
system information
to a text file.
System Information

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 Microsoft APP
The Microsoft App feature detects installed drivers and displays a relative Microsoft
application download links.

To install Microsoft App:

1. Go to Support > Microsoft App.
2. Click the Get it from Microsoft icon on the right side of the item.
3. Download and install the application from Microsoft Store.

Click to install

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Battery Master
Battery Master is a function tab related to battery maintenance such as Remain
Battery Percentage, Battery Health Option, and Battery Calibration.

Battery Health Option

- Select the battery Remain battery
charging capacity percentage

Click to calibrate the battery

Calibrating Battery
We recommends doing Battery Calibration every 3 months to have the best battery
life.
1. Go to Tools > Battery Master.
2. Click the Battery Calibration icon.
3. Follow the instructions on the Battery Calibration screen to connect to the power
adapter, install the battery and close the other windows.
4. Click Start.

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 Backup
Backup utility designed to backup the recovery image to a USB flash disk or ISO files.
They can be used to recover the system to manufacturer’s default settings when it is
needed.

⚠⚠Important
Usage of this application on any product with no authorization may be prohibited.

Select to create a Select to create an

recovery USB flash ISO image file
disk

After choosing the type of

backup, click Next to start the
backup process.

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Notices
The MSI logo used is a registered trademark of Micro-Star Int’l Co., Ltd. All other
marks and names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective owners. No
warranty as to accuracy or completeness is expressed or implied. MSI reserves the
right to make changes to this document without prior notice.

Copyright
© Micro-Star Int’l Co.,Ltd. 2020 All rights reserved.

Revision History
Version 1.0, 2020/11, First release

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