Hi all,
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UPDATE 2.3.0 - 2015-04-12: There is now an All-in-One meter that has CPU usage, RAM usage, PageFaults/sec, PageFile usage, Disk Bytes/sec, and Net IO in Bits or Bytes. It show 4 minutes of data. I added this to help me troubleshoot issues in programs when I cannot look at the meters. I also added TimeZones and DST to the Clock, and add more clocks for a total of 4. I needed to have my time and the TimeZone from a couple other parts of the world for work.
If upgrading from 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 and you want to keep your old settings files, backup these files and copy them back after you upgrade, and refresh all the skins. That should keep most all of your settings from before. Each GPU has it's own settings file. Restore which ever ones you are using.
SimplePerfMeters\ @ Resources\globalsettings.inc
SimplePerfMeters\ @ Resources\HWiNFO.inc
SimplePerfMeters\GPU0\GPUsettings.inc
Since I added more clocks to the globalsettings.inc file, if you restore the previous version of the file, you may want to copy the Clock variables from the new globalsettings.inc to your restored file. Not a big deal if you don't, the settings for each clock will not have default values. Just make sure to set some value in each Clock that you use.
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These are Simple Performance monitoring meters (and a couple of extras) that I wanted for my own use. At this time, they are simple but provide enough information so I can see if my system is running normally. I think I am just about done adding new things. This became way bigger that I thought it would, but they are all useful. I'll fix any bugs as best I can, and I am trying to slow down on changes to this skin.
There are several clickable locations on the meters. Clicking on any Histogram will start up the Performance Resource monitor. The idea is, you see a meter with high activity, click it to get quick access to the Resource monitor so you can investigate why it is happening.
There are 4 variants of the CPUmem Meter. The original no Temps, and 3 with Temp versions.
CPUmem.ini - the original meter with no Temps, no CPU fan.
CPUmemTemp1.ini - only displays 1 Temp, if you don't want to see every core. CPU fan rpm. Requires HWiNFO.
CPUmemTemp1nocores.ini - only displays 1 Temp, and no individual cores, only the Average CPU usage.
CPUmemTemp1to1.ini - This is more for AMD processors that have 1 core per Temp sensor. CPU fan rpm. Requires HWiNFO.
CPUmemTemp2to1.ini - This is for most Intel processors that have 2 threads per Temp sensor. CPU fan rpm. Requires HWiNFO.
Use the Settings skin to fill in the correct Temp sensor IDs for you system. Click the HWiNFO icon to start up the Shared Memory Viewer. You must already have HWiNFO installed and running before you can setup the IDs. Each CPU skin with temps will only use the fist of the temp Cores listed. Meaning the skin with only 1 temp will only use Temp Core 0. The other Temp skins will use however many cores you have. You only need to fill in what you plan on using.
All-in-One meter. I added this mostly for troubleshooting to save 4 minutes of data while I am using full screen programs. Some may choose to use this instead of some of the other meters. I only run this one when I want to see the last 4 minutes of data all in sync. There are 1 minute time lines to help show when the data spike occurred.
GPU meter added. In the GPU settings skin, I provided the SensorID and Instance for each sensor EntryID. I found on one of my GPU that HWiNFO placed a couple of sensors under a different SensorID. So, this seemed the best way to make sure everyone can enter the sensor IDs they have. Make sure all information is correct for each sensor.
AMD GPU settings.
After researching the AMD GPU and HWiNFO and DirectX APIs, it seems like AMD and D3D APIs do not provide a good way to determine the accurate GPU memory total and used MB. So, I added some new GPU settings that will allow you to get closer to a correct meter of memory used, not completely correct, but closer to being correct. Select the AMD box and type in the max memory your card has. Then choose the D3D Dedicated memory used HWiNFO sensor. That does not show all the memory used, but that is as close as you will get for the Memory meter with AMD cards.
The nVidia settings should continue to work properly for nVidia cards.
I believe Intel integrated graphics also does not have the correct settings in HWiNFO to get a correct display for memory used.
So, it seems Intel and AMD did not add the extra memory data points in their drivers, so HWiNFO cannot get access to correct memory used. And nVidia has provided this data in their drivers.
If you change the Temperature Units from C to F and back in HWiNFO, all the temps in all the skins will change with the appropriate Units.
I did my best to make Settings skins so you would not have to edit the HWiNFO.inc file by hand. You can still do that if you like, but the Settings skins should be enough to make it all work.
Any issues getting HWiNFO to run on your system, please visit the HWiNFO site and check there forums for help. http://www.hwinfo.com/
All in One
- click * in upper right corner to open the Settings to change scale of meters, now auto-hides
All meters display 4 minutes of data, with 1 minute marker lines
Uptime
CPU Usage
RAM usage
PageFaults/sec
PageFile usage
Disk Bytes/sec (Read and Write combine), currently C: only
Net IO (In and Out combine) Bits or Bytes follows the Network meter settings
scalable size
- click * in upper right of the CPUmem to open the settings to change scale of meters, now auto-hides
Histogram of average CPU usage
tooltip of CPU model when mouse over "CPU usage" string
Bars of average and per thread CPU usage
CPU temperatures, 4 variants (no temps, only 1 core, 1 core per temp, 2 threads per temp) (req HWiNFO) *New*
CPU speed in MHz, it may change to show current speed
click CPU/TASK to start the Task Manager
click RAM/SYS to open the Control Panel -> System information page
click P/F to open the window where you can change your Page File
the CPU bar meters will automatically show only the number of CPUs you have up to 12
Memory size and usage, tooltip to show available mem
Pages/sec is when memory allocation went to disk, which slows the system
P/F Page File size and usage
scalable size
- click X in upper right corner to close
click the bar to change the scaling factor from 1x to 2x in size
set Background Color for all meters
Sensor ID input for the Temperature readings
CPU fan Sensor IDs, with display on/off switch
CPU Mhz Sensor IDs, choose from HWiNFO or from PerfMon, red block = selected
- click * in upper right corner to open the Network Settings, use this if your Internal IP display is not correct, auto-hides
click Ext/Int IP address to open the Network and Sharing Center
Network Upload/Download graphs in Bits or Bytes
scalable size
- click X in upper right corner to open to close
this will show up to 6 network interfaces and the IP address assigned to them
click the IP address to set that as the displayed Internal IP
Selectable Bits or Bytes
- click the Drive Letter to open a Windows Explorer to that drive
click the drive size to open the Restore Point configuration
click Percent Used number to open the Disk Cleanup utility to that drive, tooltip shows available space
the Center Yellow bar is also space used
Read/Write graphs in Bytes
Drive temperature from HWiNFO, can be turned on/off in the Disk settings
scalable size
- click X in upper right corner to close
Type in any drive letter for each of the 8 disks
turn the temps on/off
enter the associated S.M.A.R.T. temperature sensor IDs to the correct Windows Drive letter
- click * in upper right corner to open the Clock Settings, auto-hides
You can now have 4 clocks running in different TimeZones
Time on top, with seconds as a thin bar just below the time
click Time to open the Windows clock settings
click Month to open a browser link to the current Month
click Year to open a browser link to the current Year
in 12 hour mode, the : will be bright for AM, and dim for PM
added Locale for Month and Day of Week, change in settings, "Local" will use your Windows Locale
scalable size
- click X in upper right corner to close
Each clock has it's own settings
TimeZone is only set by number offset from GMT, 0, -5, -9, 5.5, etc (sorry, that is how Rainmeter allows this)
If the TimeZone is set to Local, it will use your computers TimeZone and DST settings.
Label is only displayed (at the top) if you type something, anything you like, city, timezone, etc.
DST Daylight Savings Time on/off
Select 12 hour or 24 hour
Locale setting, Local, en-US, de-DE, fr-FR, it-IT, es-ES, etc. It changes the Month and Day of Week.
- click the volume percent number at the top to open Windows sound settings
click anywhere on the volume bar to set volume
scroll wheel also changes volume
click mute to toggle mute
scalable size
- click * in upper right corner to open the Weather Settings
click the Temperature to open the forecast
click the City name to open a web browser to that city at weather.com
click Radar to open a web browser to that city's radar at weather.com
data is from weather.com
scalable size
- click X in upper right corner to close
Standard / Metric
Web Update Rate, 300 seconds (5 minutes) seems to work pretty good
Locale setting, en_US, de_DE, fr_FR, it_IT, es_ES, etc. It changes a couple of fields from the data stream.
type in your city, st, country and hit enter, click a new Location ID number to set it
- Requires HWiNFO running with Shared Memory access enabled
Display Graphics card model
GPU load and graph, also has Core Clock speed
GPU temperature and graph, also has Fan speed in rpm or % of operation
Temp graph is 0-100 C or 0-212 F. Change C/F in HWiNFO settings.
GPU memory used and graph, and displays the total memory on the card
- HWiNFO needs to be installed and running first
HWiNFO icon to start up the Shared Memory Viewer to find the IDs for your system
Fill in the sensor ID information from the Shared Memory Viewer
Pick if you want Fan rpm or % of Fan operation to be displayed, or turn it off
Choose nVidia or AMD setting for GPU memory histogram
These HWiNFO sensors seem to work the best for nVidia and AMD cards, as noted below.
HWiNFO - GPU Memory Usage (%) <-- use this for: GPU0 NV
HWiNFO - GPU D3D Usage (%)
HWiNFO - GPU Memory Allocated (MB) <-- use this for: GPU0 NV
HWiNFO - GPU D3D Memory Dedicated (MB) <-- use for: GPU0 AMD
HWiNFO - GPU D3D Memory Dynamic (MB)
On all Histogram meters, the number on the left is the current sample and the number on the right is the scale of the Histogram.
Internal IP address. It seems the plugin that gets the Internal IP address works well most of the time. If it does not, you can choose the IP from a list that your system currently has configured in the Network Settings.
Background color. I set the default to black and is mostly transparent. (0,0,0,100) That way some color from your wallpaper would show through. If you have a very light or very dark wallpaper, and want a more solid color similar to the blue in my cover image, try using 0,50,100,240. That works good with all the other colors I used in the skins.
FYI, I made these on my Windows 7 system, and I've been told by others that it works well in Windows 10.
Enjoy.
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UPDATE 2.3.0 - 2015-04-12: There is now an All-in-One meter that has CPU usage, RAM usage, PageFaults/sec, PageFile usage, Disk Bytes/sec, and Net IO in Bits or Bytes. It show 4 minutes of data. I added this to help me troubleshoot issues in programs when I cannot look at the meters. I also added TimeZones and DST to the Clock, and add more clocks for a total of 4. I needed to have my time and the TimeZone from a couple other parts of the world for work.
UPDATE 2.2.0 - 2015-12-03: Added more GPU meters, up to 4 now. Added on/off switch for GPU fan display. Fixed divide by 0 error some were getting in the GPU max memory calculation. Added a CPU meter with only the Average and no cores, if you want a simpler look.
If upgrading from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 and you want to keep your old settings files, backup these 2 files and copy them back after you upgrade, and refresh all the skins. That should keep most all of your settings from before.
SimplePerfMeters\ @ Resources\globalsettings.inc
SimplePerfMeters\ @ Resources\HWiNFO.inc
UPDATE 2.1.0 - 2015-10-09: Changed Disk Meters so you can type any drive letter for any of the 8 disk meters in the Disk Settings skin. In doing this, I changed many variable names to make it more consistent, so if you save your old config files, you will need to re-enter the settings for the Disks. Change the labels in the GPU settings skin to match what is in the HWiNFO for the memory settings.
UPDATE 2.0.7 - 2015-09-23: Added GPU settings to help AMD graphics cards get a better result on the GPU meter for memory. See below for explanation. Made Weather Forecast toggle quicker. Added network external IP hide setting. Sometimes I screen share and wanted to hide my external IP. Fixed Disk available MB tooltip calculation. I hope this update will be it for a while. If you copy the globalsettings.inc and HWiNFO.inc files from 2.0.5, just make sure you click and fill in the new options in Network Settings and GPU settings.
UPDATE 2.0.5 - 2015-09-20: Only a couple of minor visual changes, I moved the CPU fan display, now the CPU/GPU/Disk temps will display correctly when you change from C to F and back in HWiNFO. I consolidated all settings for all skins to the globalsettings.inc file, and all HWiNFO settings for all skins to the HWiNFO.inc file. So, after installing this version, you can save these 2 files, upgrade to future versions, and restore these 2 files and all meter settings and HWiNFO settings will return. I had them in several different files before, making this process more difficult. I'll do my best to keep only these 2 files going forward to make restoring your settings easier. Cleaned up the code and modulerized the CPUmem skins and variants to make changes to them easier.
UPDATE 2.0.2 - 2015-09-08: Sorry, I found a couple more bugs in the new Disk Settings skin where you could not enter IDs. All fixed now. I hope that's it.
UPDATE 2.0.1 - 2015-09-08: Oops, missed the Disk temps on D: and H:, now fixed.
UPDATE 2.0.0 - 2015-09-07: added Disk temps and a settings skin to enter the sensor IDs and turn them on/off, cleaned up some code and settings files for other skins.
UPDATE 1.9.5 - 2015-09-07: added on/off switch for the CPU fan
UPDATE 1.9.4 - 2015-09-06: as requested, added CPU fan, added CPU Mhz by HWiNFO or PerfMon, settings * now auto hide, added a few tooltips for more information. Okay, I think I have added enough to these skins for awhile. The settings skins are starting to get out of control. Enjoy.