*If you have two or more of the same hardware you'll need to rename them for Rainmeter to read each, just right click on the hardware name > Rename and add a 1,2 or 3, ect. You need a program to read the sensors, Open Hardware Monitor seems the easiest to work with so I'm using that, grab it and open it - any of the values shown are available to Rainmeter. Check the guides on to see what else you can do. This is a simple skin to read and display a sensor/clock speed, ect, easy to customize though once you've got the basics. Rainmeter has the ability to read and display pretty much any sensor\load\clockspeed\voltage on any system but no one makes configs to display them all or select a few because every system has different hardware\sensors so they aren't really transferable, you have to make your own - here's how. A separate utility is included to make it easy to correlate the sensor ID number in the skin with the related sensor functionality in HWInfo.First see Toransu's excellent guide to Rainmeter stickied in the Art/Graphics section: Plugin is 3rd-party, but seems well supported. Haven't tested it in a few months, so these might be corrected.ģ) HWInfo : Very robust information about CPU and GPU temperatures, fan speeds and loads. However, there are some anecdotal reports that it has issues with Windows 8.1, including on my computer. Perfectly fine if you are mostly interested in CPU and case temperatures.Ģ) SpeedFan : Very robust information about CPU and GPU temperatures, fan speeds and loads. Doesn't monitor fan speeds or GPU information. I personally would be tempted to stay away from it.ġ) CoreTemp : Quite good, built-in Rainmeter plugin, but a little limited. I don't remember specifics, but I think there have been some stability issues with the OpenHardwareMonitor plugin for Rainmeter, and I'm not sure it is still supported by its author. If you don't use OpenHardwareMonitor for other purposes, I really suggest looking at either CoreTemp or SpeedFan, both of which can measure CPU temperature and have Rainmeter plugins that come with Rainmeter, or HWInfo, which while also 3rd-party, is the one that I use and am really happy with. You need to double check the name of the sensor you are referencing from OpenHardwareMonitor. I'm not familiar with it.Īssuming you have that covered, and it looks like you might, then I'm not sure. If not, you will need to find it somewhere. I assume the plugin came with the skin, as it is not a standard Rainmeter plugin but a 3rd-party one. It should be put in:Ĭ:\Users\ YourName\AppData\Roaming\Rainmeter\PluginsĪnd must be the same 32bit or 64bit architecture as the Rainmeter version you are running. You not only need to have OpenHardwareMonitor running on your system, but you must have OpenHardwareMonitorPlugin.dll, the plugin for Rainmeter that supports OpenHardwareMonitor. Plugin=Plugins\OpenHardwareMonitorPlugin.dll Here is the script that I have for CPU.ini: I get the requested sensor does not exist error. I have open hard ware monitor open and running. Fairly new with rain meter, love it so far, I am using an older skin everything works great except for the cpu temp which only shows 0 C.
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