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Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: May 11th, 2011, 10:15 am
by Nilsb7
Chewtoy wrote:
This is a known 'thing' (as it's not really a bug). Every systemmonotoring tool out there reads the same thing. Even Everest (which is sort of the Rolls Royce of monotoring) reads it like that.
Before the 2.0 release we talked about that, if we were going to change it. But seeing how everyone does it like that we were sort of confused about the whole thing and pretty much decided that if everyone does it like that - there has to be some good reason for it.
And it's not reallt SWAP we are measuring, it's
virtual memory, even if the name of the measure is SwapMemory.
Anyhow, this is a known thing and we decided to keep it as is due to the number of skins that have used it like it is (it has been like this since the start of Rainmeter) and because it's always been like this. It's very annoying, I agree, but that's how it is atm anyhow.
Thank you very much for the info. So could I be able to fix this myself by somehow using Measure_swapmemory - Measure_RAM? I can't try and don't know the right commands now cause I'm not at home.
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: May 11th, 2011, 6:08 pm
by SaticICE
Firstly - excellent skin thank you!
Secondly - for some reason on my Windows 7 Home Premium x64Bit Machine with an Intel Core i7 860 4 core Hyper threaded (8 core visible) x 2.80GHz machine I had to modify the ini file before your skin would see my CPU %
became
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PerfMonObject="Processor Information"
and
became
I really don't have a clue why (unless it is a change with the new Beta version of Rainmeter) - but it works now!
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 11:09 am
by Psicrow
Hello, first a big thank you for this great work
But unfortunately, the skin do not works for me properly.
The cpu meter is always 100%. HDD graph show unfortunately nothing. The mhz of my cpu is not correct. Process and top process dont working. see the picture
I think that the perfmon.dll not working properly.
System:
Win Vista 64 ultimate
AMD Phenom Quad-Core Processor 2.30 GHz
can someone help me please
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 12:38 pm
by Seahorse
The post above yours seems to answer the CPU problem.
You need to have
Speedfan running for the temps to work, you need to set the right variables in the setting file iirc.
You will also need to edit the variables for the hard drives so they reflect you actual drive letters of you system.
it will be something LIKE:
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 2:56 pm
by Psicrow
hello and thanks,
but my problem is not the cpu or hdd temp, if you see the pic, temps are working
Speedfan is still running
but the cpu core meters core 1-4 dont working they shows always 100%, hdd graph read/write dont working und the cpu mhz is wrong. Process and top process dont working
see the pic
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 4:55 pm
by Seahorse
Psicrow wrote:but the cpu core meters core 1-4 dont working they shows always 100%, hdd graph read/write dont working und the cpu mhz is wrong.
see the pic
It works out of the box for me, are you picking the version which matches your machine's Cores & Hard drives?
If correct and still a problem with CPU MHz, it might make sense to edit the skin (right click "Edit skin" and replace:
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[Mse_CPUMHz]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\PowerPlugin.dll
PowerState=MHZ
With:
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[Mse_CPUMHz]
Measure=CPU
Processor=0
For the Cores replace:
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[Mse_Core_1]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\PerfMon.dll
PerfMonObject="Processor"
PerfMonInstance=0
PerfMonCounter="% Processor Time"
PerfMonDifference=1
InvertMeasure=1
With:
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[Mse_Core_1]
Measure=CPU
Processor=1
And the same for 2, 3 & 4 incrementing the [Mse_Core_x] & Processor=x in all 4 instances, test it one one first.
Hard Drives:
You need to EDIT Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\ForceX and edit FXSM_V2_Settings.inc
With the right hard drive details for your machine as you appear to have no less than 7. I previously gave an example, however they are:
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Drive1=C:
Drive2=D:
Drive3=G:
Drive4=I:
Drive5=J:
Drive6=E:
Drive7=F:
Change these to match your actual drive letters (C: E: etc).
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 9:14 pm
by Psicrow
hello and thank you thank you thank you
the cpu meters are now working properly and are properly displayed mhz
But the HDD graph for read and write accesses Still not working and the Process and top process dont working
?
maybe the perfmon.dll works not correct just like the cpu meter.
the HDD graph for read and write accesses get info from perfmon.dll and i think, the perfmon.dll dont work?
[Mse_Drive2Access]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\PerfMon.dll
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter="Disk Bytes/sec"
PerfMonInstance="#Drive2#"
mfg
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 9:35 pm
by Seahorse
Using your example, this should work:
Replace:
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[Mse_Drive2Access]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=Plugins\PerfMon.dll
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter="Disk Bytes/sec"
PerfMonInstance="#Drive2#"
With:
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[Mse_Drive2Access]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon.dll
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter="Disk Reads/sec"
PerfMonInstance="#Drive2#"
PerfMonDifference=1
Again, you need to work through all of your drives, suggest you test this on C: FIRST.
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 9:54 pm
by Psicrow
hm dont work but there is a lot of information
hope its not to long :/
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;============================================================================
;HDD Information & Ussage
;============================================================================
;===========================================
;Drive 1 Display
;===========================================
[Mse_Drive1Access]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=PerfMon.dll
PerfMonObject=LogicalDisk
PerfMonCounter="Disk Reads/sec"
PerfMonInstance="#Drive1#"
PerfMonDifference=1
[Mse_Drive1Free]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#Drive1#
UpdateDivider=2
[Mse_Drive1Name]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#Drive1#
UpdateDivider=2
Label=1
UpdateDivider=3600
[Mse_Drive1Used]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#Drive1#
InvertMeasure=1
UpdateDivider=2
[Mse_Drive1Size]
Measure=FreeDiskSpace
Drive=#Drive1#
Total=1
UpdateDivider=3600
;-----------------------------------------------------------
;Drive 1 Information Text
;-----------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------ HDD Vertical Text
[HDD_Vertival_Text]
Meter=String
Text="HDD Monitor"
X=6
Y=66r
Angle=-1.5707
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=8
AntiAlias=#AA#
------------------------------------ HDD 1 Information
[Rl_Drive1UsedString]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Used
X=81r
Y=-61r
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=8
FontFace=#Font1Name#
AntiAlias=#AA#
AutoScale=1
NumOfDecimals=1
Prefix="Used: "
[Rl_Drive1Free]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Free
X=180r
Y=0r
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=8
FontFace=#Font1Name#
StringAlign=Right
AntiAlias=#AA#
AutoScale=1
NumOfDecimals=1
Prefix="Free: "
------------------------------------ HDD 1 Bar
[Drive1%]
Meter=STRING
X=35
Y=13r
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=8
FontFace=#Font1Name#
AntiAlias=#AA#
Text="Drive #drive1#"
UpdateDivider=3600
LeftMouseDownAction=#Drive1#
[Drive1Back]
Meter=IMAGE
X=81
Y=4r
W=185
H=6
SolidColor=#color2#
[Drive_1_Norm_Caution]
Measure=Calc
Formula=((Mse_Drive1Used/Mse_Drive1Size)*100)
UpdateDivider=2
IfBelowValue=75
IfBelowAction=!Execute [!RainmeterShowMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Green][!RainmeterHideMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Orange][!RainmeterHideMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Red]
IfAboveValue=74
IfAboveAction=!Execute [!RainmeterHideMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Green][!RainmeterShowMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Orange][!RainmeterHideMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Red]
[Drive_1_Low]
Measure=Calc
Formula=((Mse_Drive1Used/Mse_Drive1Size)*100)
UpdateDivider=2
IfAboveValue=89
IfAboveAction=!Execute [!RainmeterHideMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Green][!RainmeterHideMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Orange][!RainmeterShowMeter Rl_Drive1Used_Red]
[Rl_Drive1Used_Green]
Meter=Bar
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Used
X=0r
Y=0r
W=150
H=6
BarColor=#color6#
BarOrientation=HORIZONTAL
hidden=1
[Rl_Drive1Used_Orange]
Meter=Bar
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Used
X=0r
Y=0r
W=150
H=6
BarColor=#color6#
BarOrientation=HORIZONTAL
hidden=1
[Rl_Drive1Used_Red]
Meter=Bar
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Used
X=0r
Y=0r
W=150
H=6
BarColor=#color11#
BarOrientation=HORIZONTAL
hidden=1
------------------------------------ HDD 1 Bar End
[Drive_Name_1]
MeasureNAme=Mse_Drive1Name
Meter=STRING
X=35
Y=10r
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=8
FontFace=#Font1Name#
AntiAlias=#AA#
Text=
UpdateDivider=3600
LeftMouseDownAction=#Drive1#
[Rl_Drive1Total]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Size
X=268
Y=0r
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=8
FontFace=#Font1Name#
StringAlign=Right
AntiAlias=#AA#
AutoScale=1
NumOfDecimals=1
Prefix="Total: "
UpdateDivider=3600
------------------------------------ HDD 1 Access Graph
[Rl_Drive1Access_txt]
Meter=STRING
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Access
X=35
Y=18r
FontColor=#font1#
FontSize=7
FontFace=#Font1Name#
AntiAlias=#AA#
AutoScale=1
NumOfDecimals=1
[Rl_Drive1Access1]
Meter=Line
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Access
X=70
Y=0r
H=16
W=200
LineCount=1
LineColor=#color4#
AutoScale=0
AntiAlias=#AA#
[Rl_Drive1Access2]
Meter=Line
MeasureName=Mse_Drive1Access
X=0r
Y=0r
H=16
W=200
LineCount=1
LineColor=#color5#
AutoScale=0
AntiAlias=#AA#
[Spacer_8]
Meter=IMAGE
SolidColor=#color9#
X=25
Y=18r
H=1
W=250
Re: ForceX System Monitor v2.2.0(Mar-20-2011)
Posted: July 2nd, 2011, 10:46 pm
by Seahorse
You've tried reading/writing a big file to C: to make graph move? As I mentioned earlier the graph for C: for me worked without any changes to the skin at all...