LCD Smartie

Try http://users.hol.gr/~ngeorg/Smartie/

I keep gettin a cannot load plugin error. grrrr

Gave me good 4 minutes in the first run, before same error type as earlier. I'll give it more runs tomorrow, could very well just have been "misfortune". Getting late/early here - need sleep. Let's get this puppy rolling.

To get it working, you must setup rivatuner to write the log somewhere. Then by Limbo's instructions, setup the plugin in Smartie. I'm not aware of any other requirements - unless its .NET

abrasiveone wrote:
I keep gettin a cannot load plugin error. grrrr

Install the latest .NET framework

Works after I installed .net

Thanks.

I also get the Rivatuner has stopped logging blah, blah, blah.
Mine isn't very often though. Had it running two days and it happened three or four times, while I was playin World of Warcraft and GTA: SA

Sorry to say this, but it seems like Beta3 crashes more frequently. Atleast here it does. sorry.

Edit: A whole lot more often damn.

That's strange!

Ok go back to beta 2.

I'm very disappointed with this dead end
I have to take a cup of coffee and consider a different approach to the whole build!

It sould be working
Damn dll

Any news "in limbo" ?

Proxzen and Limbo....check out the thread I just started in this section about Lavalys' Everest Ultimate Edition or using a "hacked" graphics card BIOS.
Maybe we can go this direction with it. I hope so. I want to be able to get my GPU temps on my LCD so bad I can taste it....LOL

Maybe I missed something but I use the cut plugin to simply cut out what I want from the riva tuner log file.

I have the cut.dll in the plugins dir of lcd smartie and then I put this in lcd smartie >

line1:6800LE @ $dll(cut.dll,1,26#3,$LogFile(C:\Program\RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.5\HardwareMonitoring.hml,1))/$dll(cut.dll,1,47#3,$LogFile(C:\Program\RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.5\HardwareMonitoring.hml,1))

line2:GPU:$dll(cut.dll,1,68#2,$LogFile(C:\Program\RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.5\HardwareMonitoring.hml,1))? Ambient:$dll(cut.dll,1,89#2,$LogFile(C:\Program\RivaTuner v2.0 RC 15.5\HardwareMonitoring.hml,1))?

which in my case returns

6800LE @ 400/900
GPU:51? Ambient:36?

jannol...are you getting any crashes at all?? How long is the longest you have had this running? Are you sure the temps are updating to current temps and the program(smartie) isn't just hung on giving you the last temp before hanging up??

If you have this working like you say you do, you just may have made Limbo kill himself for all the work and time he has put into this.

I hope it will crash so Limbo doesn't need to kill himself.

I have not tested it any longer than a day at once since I shutdown my computer at night and I have "Recreate Log ..." checked so the log is recreated everyday but I have set Rivatuner to log every second now and I will let it run for atleast 48 hours.

So far it does update the temp since it does change the temps and I have peeked the log file and it seems to be correct.

But I'll try to really make sure it does work...

jannol wrote:I hope it will crash so Limbo doesn't need to kill himself.

I Hope Not

my approach to the whole project was complete different and I FAILED
I think this will be a good lesson for me (bacause I used to think complicated about simple things)

Violating two basic rules of programming (in any language) makes you to hit your head to the wall
KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
SMILE = Simple Makes It Lots Easier

So there are two things to do in the future:
Smile
Kiss

Keep on guys

Ok, I have only had it running for about 5 hours now and so far it works, however, the log file will grow until rivatuner is restarted so in the future I'll stick to 5 sec interval...

...or is it possible to auto restart rivatuner with some kind of a script ?

...I also wonder, is it possible to read or parse the temp directly from rivatuners dll ?

I don't have the knowhow of dll files

KISS & SMILE

Yes, it works good, no lockups or anything and I am very happy so I can only say, try for your self

Speedfan reads my NVIDIA GPU temps, you could use that with the plugin too!

Waaay late response - i know, but:
Can you extract the temp read directly from rivatuner dll?
Yes and no.

No, you cannot extract from the dll.. I think.

Yes - you can extract directly. The temp read is in .NET shared memory

You could just use a MBM5 plugin that reads the graphics card temperature (there's several about i think, most use Rivatuner) and then use Smartie's MBM5 options...

As far as I can remember, the mbm5 plugins does not read nvidia NV4x cards..?

I've no idea but it's reading my 7800GT temp and speeds perfectly...

Anyway to get this to work with SLI?

You should be able to get MBM5 to read your SLI details and you should then be able to read them off using LCDSmartie

Workshed wrote:You should be able to get MBM5 to read your SLI details and you should then be able to read them off using LCDSmartie

It seems like anything above 9 doesn't ready correctly in LCD Smartie.

23,24,25,26 are my 2 video cards GPU and GPU amb for both cards.

Try this

Could you please provide a patch/diff of these changes? Surely if they add functionality (especially the type you've described), they would gladly be added to the main source tree (assuming they are well written).

Also, does Smartie have some sort of plugin interface to allow a simple way to add these types of functionality? If so, I would be much more inclined to start writing stuff (I know lots of C/C++, nothing about Delphi).

I have provided Limbo (I think it was Limbo anyway) with the source already.

There is a way to write plugins as dll's (just no way to add them in to the GUI)