HOW TO: Monitoring CPU and GPU Temperatures In-Game/In-Benchmark with On-Screen Display

[jinda]

Is that where the HDD is located? The only part of my M18x exterior that ever seems sort of warm was the area around the HDD.

Ye below that is the HDD. SHould there be something between the HDD and the palm rest like the part of the mobo? At least it should block the heat right?

[Mr. Fox]

I don't think there is anything there to shield the heat. It probably would not be good to insulate or trap the heat inside the laptop. A HDD can get very warm when it is in steady use.

[jinda]

I don't think there is anything there to shield the heat. It probably would not be good to insulate or trap the heat inside the laptop. A HDD can get very warm when it is in steady use.

I see so that must be the HDD. I think you are right, I just realized, I moved that game into the new SSD and that part didnt get that hot the last time I played. Wow! I hope SSD gets more affordable

Thanks again!

[mhb112]

Great post, I have been looking for a way to show cpu info while in game.

One problem I am having though, everything works, everything starts with windows, but my cpu info (anything from hwinfo basically) won't show in game, unless I quit hwinfo, and restart it.

Anyone seen this or have any idea what is wrong?

[residualvoltage]

Afterburner might need to start first then hwinfo or vice versa. If your setting this up for starting with windows and using task scheduler... You can try to make the entry in not the main task scheduler location... but on left so click Microsoft>Windows and add the task here. Make sure you've check "run task with highest priveleges". You can try changing the osd, afterburner and hwinfo properties to run as admin.

Not likely though... Either way maybe it's just the order they are opened. I had similar trouble after reinstalling Skyrim... Witcher was showing fine... I tinkered over and over trying to get Skyrim to show the OSD and eventually it just worked. Later I figured at one point I read of a Skyrim twaek which was wrong and had set it to xp compatibility... Once that was unchecked the OSD started functioning again. Something to keep in mind I guess pehaps some games run in xp compatibility won't show the OSD.

[Janessie]

You have to start Afterburner first and than hwinfo otherwise it will not work.

I just found out, that when I run AB + hwinfo it cause to crash whole machine while playing some games - Tribes: Ascend, don´t know if any other game does the same....anybody has similar experience?

Btw. will fix that signature soon. =)

[Mr. Fox]

If you run into this issue randomly, simply shut down Afterburner and HWiNFO, launch HWiNFO manually followed by Afterburner. I have needed to do that a couple of times.

[residualvoltage]

I agree MrFox tends to be just a error that was from the two system sensor softwares clashing to scan sensors at the same time.

When opened with enough time in between there should be no issues. You know in the task scheduler it's very advanced and configurable and is why I like to use it for certain apps at windows start or even just modifying behavior of apps that aren't started with windows.

So if anyone is having issues on how soon hwinfo or afterburner is starting in windows... go back to the Task, edit the properties and add a launch delay of 5 seconds.

But if the bsods don't go away you may need to look into if Afterburner or HWinfo is causing a bsod reading from your gpu (not impossible)

When posting about issues possibly list driver version and computer model and gpu model . I had 5870m who crashed upon launching Afterburner on an older driver and older Afterburner...

[Mr. Fox]

I used to have issues with MSI Afterburner crashing the OS with 6970M and 6990M video cards, but that was an older version of Afterburner... not sure if there are still issue with the newer versions.

[residualvoltage]

yeah not sure either but plenty AMD users are using it error free... I think those errors both of us experienced have been taken care of now.