NOTE - Programs needed for this skin are CoreTemp and MSI Afterburner. CoreTemp is needed for CPU specs and temperature, Afterburner for all graphics related stuff. CoreTemp can be downloaded here: www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ (make sure to opt out of all the ad programs when installing) and Afterburner here: event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/…. Also, make sure to set them up to start with Windows.
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MODULES:
Config - settings for all the different changeable variables used in the skin.
CPU info
CPU usage (AMD) - Uses CoreTemp as MSI Afterburner does not support AMD CPUs.
CPU usage (Intel) - Uses MSI Afterburner. CoreTemp is still required if you use the CPU Info module.
RAM usage
Swap usage
GPU info - 4-way SLI/Crossfire supported.
GPU usage - 4-way SLI/Crossfire supported.
GPU VRAM - due to the strange way Afterburner detects VRAM usage in multi-GPU, only one module is required. Read the Config help section for more info.
Drive usage
Network - see the relevant Config help section for setting up.
Spacers - they provide small gaps in order to group modules together (e.g. between Swap and HDD 1 in the image above).
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MODULES:
Config - settings for all the different changeable variables used in the skin.
CPU info
CPU usage (AMD) - Uses CoreTemp as MSI Afterburner does not support AMD CPUs.
CPU usage (Intel) - Uses MSI Afterburner. CoreTemp is still required if you use the CPU Info module.
RAM usage
Swap usage
GPU info - 4-way SLI/Crossfire supported.
GPU usage - 4-way SLI/Crossfire supported.
GPU VRAM - due to the strange way Afterburner detects VRAM usage in multi-GPU, only one module is required. Read the Config help section for more info.
Drive usage
Network - see the relevant Config help section for setting up.
Spacers - they provide small gaps in order to group modules together (e.g. between Swap and HDD 1 in the image above).
Sidebars - auto-adjusts height to the screen resolution of the monitor it is active on.
Vertical spacers - in case you use more than one sidebar. It is a transparent, 10 pixel wide column with two accent lines at either side, as can be seen in the preview above in (between the sidebars).
*Some parts may not function correctly as I do not have the hardware to test them. Also, some hardware may not support the functionality in the first place, such as CPU voltage and GPU voltage/fan rpm.
Vertical spacers - in case you use more than one sidebar. It is a transparent, 10 pixel wide column with two accent lines at either side, as can be seen in the preview above in (between the sidebars).
*Some parts may not function correctly as I do not have the hardware to test them. Also, some hardware may not support the functionality in the first place, such as CPU voltage and GPU voltage/fan rpm.
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CREDITS
- ‘mepu’, author of the HUD.Vision skin on the Customize.org website. I was a big fan of the look of his skin but some things just weren't to my preference so I started building System.Monitor.HUD to fit my own taste while keeping a similar look.
- 'jsmorley', moderator/developer on the Rainmeter Forums. For the help he's given me and other authors when we have trouble figuring stuff out with our skins.
LICENCE - do whatever you want with my RM skin, you're welcome to. All I ask is that if you share/upload it somewhere, just put a mention of my name and/or link to this page.
CREDITS
- ‘mepu’, author of the HUD.Vision skin on the Customize.org website. I was a big fan of the look of his skin but some things just weren't to my preference so I started building System.Monitor.HUD to fit my own taste while keeping a similar look.
- 'jsmorley', moderator/developer on the Rainmeter Forums. For the help he's given me and other authors when we have trouble figuring stuff out with our skins.
LICENCE - do whatever you want with my RM skin, you're welcome to. All I ask is that if you share/upload it somewhere, just put a mention of my name and/or link to this page.
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Without it the cpu temps on the skin reported a sad 0c.
I realized MSI Afterburner supports cpu temp reading.
I downloaded the plugin for rainmeter and (without any prior rainmeter "coding" experience) after an hour of trying to figure out how to edit the config files so they read the temp from Afterburner instead, I finally made it.
I copied the entire "graphs" section from "cpu" in "metermeasure" into each cpu config file and added "[Measure.CPU_Temp]" by slightly tweaking the code from the GPU section, so it reads the cpu instead.
It's ghetto as hell, but it works.
^_^
Afterburner - open "Settings" > "User Interface" tab > change "Temperature Format" to Fahrenheit.
CoreTemp - open "Settings" > "Display" tab > tick "Display temperatures in Fahrenheit".
Now, open "Documents\Rainmeter\Skins\System.Monitor.HUD\Resources\MeterMeasure\CPU.inc" in Notepad then edit the very last line (change the C to a F). Save, exit, and refresh Rainmeter.
For future reference, if you see an "@ include" line in a config, then it points towards the "@ Resources" folder in your Rainmeter skins directory. For example, my GPU Info config has the line "@include2=#@#MeterMeasure\GPU_Info.inc" which points to "@ Resources\MeterMeasure\GPU_Info.inc" and then it copies everything in that file into the current file. It's quite handy for sharing code between multiple configs.
Have you downloaded the .dll plugin from here: [link]? The plugin isn't natively included in Rainmeter so you have to download it.
I also modified the meters of NET and HDD
Dark.
Anyway, downloaded your skin and gave it a try but it seems Afterburner still has issues with Windows 8 so it's not displaying properly on mine. Maybe I'll look into that... I might slot in a GPU monitor in my next update (I actually forgot about it in v1.0
I'm still trying out some other methods for WiFi down/up speeds and HDD transfer speeds. Sometimes gets hard to read with it being superimposed on the graph...