PerfMon problems [solved]

[djothi]

Hi,

I'm having issues with taboo_Vision Skin Rainmeter https://www.deviantart.com/jamien-price/art/taboo-Vision-Skin-Rainmeter-122032577,
more specifically I've located the issue to be with the HDD (hard drive) skin. I've narrowed it down to the PerfMon plugin.

Basically on start-up, rainmeter will fail to load due to it. The skin works perfectly fine it I remove it before rainmeter start & then manually add it. It would work with no issues. However if I close rainmeter & open it, it would not load all the skins due to this skin. I've narrowed it further down to the PerfMon plugin. If I comment that line out, it loads all the plugins.

I've tried replacing the PerfMon plugin with one from a back, reinstalling rainmeter entirely & https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/perfmon-problems-unable-to-add-counters/e90f231d-0014-457d-8b1f-5f342971597a or as recommended here https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/deprecated/perfmon/ to ""rebuilding" the database from the Windows command line" with success (I get the appropriate return "Successfully rebuilt performance counter setting from system backup store").

However on start-up rainmeter still fails to load due to it, unless I remove it. Please advice? Any suggestions?

Note: on rainmeter log, it just stops at loading that skin & crashes. & importantly the skin & plugin seems to work if I add it manually and not have the skin at start-up. Why is this so?

Edit:
Update, have just found out that PerfMon is depreciated https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/deprecated/perfmon/ https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/plugins/deprecated/
so I have to replace it with UsageMonitor. Sadly I'm not too experienced but am trying.

Does anyone know how to convert this part of the code that uses PerfMon to UsageMonitor?

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[Mse_DriveAccess]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter="Disk Bytes/sec"
PerfMonInstance="C:"

Many thanks if possible.

[djothi]

Update:

Solution found:

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[Mse_DriveAccess]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=UsageMonitor
Category=LogicalDisk
Counter="Disk Bytes/sec"
Name=#disk1#

however to excess the value-form it to display need to use below. Above can be used for line char/plotting.

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[Mse_DriveAccessScaled]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Mse_DriveAccess

just replace MeasureName in [Rl_DriveAccess_txt] with the scaled value - not actually scaled but the documentations called all their values as scaled so I followed. Its the actual value - just need to cover it. (if this change is left out, the read/write string display will just show the drive letter) - don't 100% get it but it works ("lol-my code works, I don't know why case")

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[Rl_DriveAccess_txt]
MeasureName=Mse_DriveAccessScaled

Anyway's tested with CrystlDiskMark ensure it recording both read & write successfully & able to reboot rainmeter without it crashing on it.
Unsure if this forum has mark solved - Anyways Thanks?

[balala]

however to excess the value-form it to display need to use below. Above can be used for line char/plotting.

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[Mse_DriveAccessScaled]
Measure=Calc
Formula=Mse_DriveAccess

just replace MeasureName in [Rl_DriveAccess_txt] with the scaled value - not actually scaled but the documentations called all their values as scaled so I followed. Its the actual value - just need to cover it. (if this change is left out, the read/write string display will just show the drive letter) - don't 100% get it but it works ("lol-my code works, I don't know why case")

Well, in fact the [Mse_DriveAccess] measure returns a string and a numerical value, which are different. If you wanna show up the numerical value on a String meter and you're using a MeasureName=Mse_DriveAccess option on the String meter, you can't, because this way, it's gonna show the string value of the measure, which in this case is #disk1# (C: probably).
In order to show up the numerical value, without adding an extra Calc measure, you should use the Text option of the string meter as Text=[Mse_DriveAccessUsageMonitor:]. Here [Mse_DriveAccessUsageMonitor:] represents the numerical value of the [Mse_DriveAccessUsageMonitor] measure, which as said, on UsageMonitor plugin measures is different then the string value (C: or #disk1#). If you try this, take care to add a DynamicVariables=1 option as well to the String meter, because [Mse_DriveAccessUsageMonitor:] is a section variable, which requires to set on the dynamic variables.

Additionally note that PerfMon is a deprecated plugin and should not be used anymore.