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

[jinda]

I followed this procedures and its working really great in monitoring both temps. I just have a question about HWInfo64, even if I checked the box for launch at start or start with windows (not sure exactly about the wordings), its not really starting automatically. I always have to run the program manually.
Is it really like that? Thanks!

[Mr. Fox]

I'm glad to hear you like it, bro.

No, it should start automatically, but it does not on some systems. I'm not sure why, but it's easy enough to address through a workaround.

Go into Administrative Tools and you can set it up to run as a Task at startup. That should work.

[jinda]

I'm glad to hear you like it, bro.

No, it should start automatically, but it does not on some systems. I'm not sure why, but it's easy enough to address through a workaround.

Go into Administrative Tools and you can set it up to run as a Task at startup. That should work.

It really is great. I just have to move the position of the OSD depending on what game I'm playing to avoid covering anything I'll try that one. Thanks again!

[mediafriend]

Hey I've been trying to set up HWinfo and I love the guide, very intuitive. I have one problem though, don't know if I'm just overlooking something or what, I've downloaded the same version of HWinfo the guide is based on and I've gotten to the step of enabling Rivatuner during configuration. the only problem is that I can't. The option is greyed out and stays greyed out. Should I download rivatuner separately? I know the guide says I dont need to, but I don't seem to be able to access it.

[steviejones133]

Hey I've been trying to set up HWinfo and I love the guide, very intuitive. I have one problem though, don't know if I'm just overlooking something or what, I've downloaded the same version of HWinfo the guide is based on and I've gotten to the step of enabling Rivatuner during configuration. the only problem is that I can't. The option is greyed out and stays greyed out. Should I download rivatuner separately? I know the guide says I dont need to, but I don't seem to be able to access it.

No need for a seperate download. Make sure you have the HWiNFO configurations set correctly from the first two spoilers in post #1 and then spoiler 3 shows you how to configure Afterburner - you need to have Afterburner configured correctly to enable the OSD. Once you have both configured as per the spoilers, you can simply launch the Rivatuner aspect by right clicking the jet with the pink numbers on it in the tray area and make the relevant changes.

Configure that as shown and you should be golden.

[residualvoltage]

Media... If that hasn't helped your issue may just be the order in which your opening the two programs. The afterburner OSD app needs to be open ahead of HWiNFO to allow the communication of HWiNFO to the Afterburner OSD (RTSS (rivatuner statistic server))

[lthuiyi]

Thank you Mr. Fox for bringing this post to us!
I'm currently using the HWInfo of version: 395_1625
GPU info is displayed as expected
But seems unable to link the CPU info to Riva tuner (set done as the post shows), there's no CPU info like temp, frequency displayed.
anyone know how to fix this?

One thing I want to mention is that in the latest version of HWInfo, seems there is no option of "CPU package". Is this may be the reason?

[steviejones133]

I think this is down just to the order that the utilities are opened. If you look at Residual Voltage's post above, try that and see if you get all the info displayed.

[Mr. Fox]

One thing I want to mention is that in the latest version of HWInfo, seems there is no option of "CPU package". Is this may be the reason?

I am not able to answer that question because I am not using the latest version of HWiNFO64. You can use another sensor if "CPU Package" is no longer available. For example, select the CPU under Dell EC or Compal EC for the average CPU temperature reading among all cores.

You can close and reopen HWiNFO64 to get the RivaTuner sensors for the CPU to show up in Afterburner. That happens now and then. As previously posted, an alternative is to launch HWiNFO64 as a Windows Task and you can delay the task long enough to ensure that Afterburner is always running first.

Another thing to point out is that you can make your own label or heading for the HWiNFO64 sensors. This will show up in the HWiNFO monitoring window as well as in Afterburner's OSD. Look at the difference between the Vantage and New Calico runs and you will see what I am referring to. (Look at the last line showing the CPU Package temperature.)

Question: Other than resorting to using an external video camera, has anyone found a screen capture utility that will capture at full frame rate?

[residualvoltage]

Afterburner will not capture at full frame rate Mr Fox?