In game CPU monitor

jim5000 · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:53

Are there any apps that display CPU usage onscreen during a game? Kinda like an FPS monitor but for processors.

I'm currently trying to work out what to upgrade first, mobo\cpu\ram or graphics card.

jim5000 · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:54

domthecondom · 27 Apr 2009 at 18:59

can't think of anything, but if you have the Logitec G15 or a second monitor it would help

ian|Squared² · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:07

i dont know of anything
i know you get this sort of thing in most of the 3DMark Benchmarks
it would be really useful for you to perhaps run some

Digital · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:08

What about rivatuner, it can show all sorts of information, GPU and CPU. I redirect my OSD output to my G15 LCD, but you don't have to.

n1kunj · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:08

If you have an ATi card ATi tray tools can do this - it's a setting in the overlay options.

Hen_Dawg · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:20

You can play it windowed I guess

postmanfw · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:22

Rivatuner can but depends what board/sensor you have....doesn't work with my present one

ins0mn1ac · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:25

2 monitors works a treat for this type of thing!

TaKeN · 27 Apr 2009 at 19:27

Core Temp does with the G15 LCD

uv · 27 Apr 2009 at 20:37

deleted said:
2 monitors works a treat for this type of thing!

Indeed.. I have a cpu gadget on my second monitor

Tefal · 27 Apr 2009 at 21:39

just grab/borrow some old monitor and use it as a second for a while.

Helios1234 · 27 Apr 2009 at 22:00

jim5000 said:
Are there any apps that display CPU usage onscreen during a game? Kinda like an FPS monitor but for processors.

I'm currently trying to work out what to upgrade first, mobo\cpu\ram or graphics card.

What's your spec? We can just tell you what to upgrade if you really need one and what games do you play?

If you want to know your cpu usage, why not alt tab and check windows task manager.

Happy · 27 Apr 2009 at 22:06

Everest and other programs have an OSD feature, which would do what you want.

snowdog · 27 Apr 2009 at 22:10

Rivatuner has an in game overlay and has a history graph.

You could hook up a cheap spare monitor and have taskmanager fullscreen on it when gaming

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HangTime · 27 Apr 2009 at 22:15

Helios1234 said:
If you want to know your cpu usage, why not alt tab and check windows task manager.

The problem with that is cpu usage may well be very different when you are alt-tabbed; many games seem to pause automatically when they lose focus for example. OK so you can track history on the graph but you can't take a snapshot at a particular moment.

snowdog · 27 Apr 2009 at 22:32

HangTime said:
The problem with that is cpu usage may well be very different when you are alt-tabbed; many games seem to pause automatically when they lose focus for example. OK so you can track history on the graph but you can't take a snapshot at a particular moment.

Unless you have 2 monitors, then taskman is ok

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But I know what you mean, CoH used 1.1gb when tabbed out, but when looking at it real time I've seen it to to 2gb easily, rising steadily, then when tabbing out: BAM, 1.1 gb again. Tabbing out is certainly not the way.
Also a lot of games simply are stuck on 1 or 2 full cores cpu usage when tabbed out.