FanControl, my take on a SpeedFan replacement

[overoptimizer]

Hello, first of all, great job on the SW! This is exactly the feature set I was looking for.

 

For your motherboard compatibility list, happy to report that it's working on Asrock B550M Steel Legend. Just a minor glitch, a nonexistent fan control is shown. This may have something to do with the fact that the B550 (not M) Steel Legend does have another fan header. Probably something to be fixed in librehardwaremonitor and not Fancontrol?

[Rem0o]

8 hours ago, dutchsnowden said:

Hi guys. Love Fancontrol so far, made my profiles and works great. Two issues so far. 

 

1 - For the life of me I don't understand why "shared memory" feature is not working and not sure how to troubleshoot it. I placed plugins, unblocked them, I restarted both HwINFO and Fancontrol but still cannot see any change.

2 - When trying to control NVIDIA GPU I have, seems to conflict with something else as it starts and stops the fans in an odd way. Is it not enough to shut down Asus GPUTweakII? Should I completely uninstall it to make Fancontrol work?

1) Shared memory only works when you got HwInfo running in sensor-mode AFAIK, and its now a paid feature.

2) No idea how that softwares works, but yes indeed, it seems like something else is trying to take over.

[Rem0o]

3 hours ago, overoptimizer said:

Just a minor glitch, a nonexistent fan control is shown. This may have something to do with the fact that the B550 (not M) Steel Legend does have another fan header. Probably something to be fixed in librehardwaremonitor and not Fancontrol?

The cards shown are based on the superIO chip on the board, which may or may not be used for all of its available channels.

[Grabhanem]

4 hours ago, overoptimizer said:

Hello, first of all, great job on the SW! This is exactly the feature set I was looking for.

 

For your motherboard compatibility list, happy to report that it's working on Asrock B550M Steel Legend. Just a minor glitch, a nonexistent fan control is shown. This may have something to do with the fact that the B550 (not M) Steel Legend does have another fan header. Probably something to be fixed in librehardwaremonitor and not Fancontrol?

Yep, I get the same thing on the B450I gaming plus - heck even Task Manager reports 4 RAM slots when I have 2. I suspect most manufacturers are using the same config on lots of different boards.

[Rem0o]

V79

Improved upon my numeric up/down control with a + and - button :

 

Also support for up/down arrow keys when a numerical field is selected.

[dutchsnowden]

Just updated to V79 and windows removed it because of a trojan.

 

 

Basically I do not have any Fancontrol now. It removed V79 and do not have V78 anymore.

[WoodenMarker]

Thanks for the work you've put into this!

It's working on the Msi B450M Bazoooka V2 and Asus Z170 Deluxe.

 

Also works on ASRock B450M Pro4 and Msi X470 Gaming Pro Carbon.

[TwistedKestrel]

1 hour ago, dutchsnowden said:

Just updated to V79 and windows removed it because of a trojan.

 

 

Basically I do not have any Fancontrol now. It removed V79 and do not have V78 anymore.

Bleh, same thing just happened to me. Identified it as the exact same thing

[Rem0o]

18 minutes ago, TwistedKestrel said:

Bleh, same thing just happened to me. Identified it as the exact same thing

It actually just did it to me also, on the actual computer it is being compiled on lmao. Will investigate.

[Rem0o]

Sent for review at Microsoft / Windows Defender, hopefully they will answer soon.

[Rem0o]

Response:
 

 

Should be cleared in future Windows defender definition update.

[rafe_28]

This looks absolutely awesome! I'ma try it once i got my watercooling setup.

 

Edit: I just tried it just to see and it was able to control the cpu fan based on gpu temp on the msi mpg z390 gaming pro carbon. Also no issues with windows defender.

 

i got some issues tho. after closing it (so actually making it a background task) or starting it minimized it wont open up. Need to kill it first in task manager to then open it. it cant control my gpu fans though it gets an exact readout and has all the sensors recognized as far as i can tell. Probably not much u can do for that specific gpu (msi radeon rx 5700 XT gaming X) i have. Also a factory reset button would probably be good which i couldnt find but deleting the useconfig.json file works too.

 

conclusion: i am really nutpicky rn but this is a great software. its not paid, it has a github page, you regularely update it and it just works. not like speedfan that is out of date. Ty for writing this softwaare.

[dutchsnowden]

4 hours ago, Rem0o said:

Response:
 

 

Should be cleared in future Windows defender definition update.

I confirm all is working now, new version is alive. I will definitely consider donation for Remb0o! Thank you so much and hope you keep this app alive and kicking!

[InterClaw]

Thank you Rem0o for this awesome piece of software. SpeedFan wasn't having any of my new B550 board, so panic ensued. Found this instead.  I can report it works great with the Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ax and the good ol' Strix 1080 I'm stuck with.

 

Anyway, I've got one question and one feature request:

 

1. Using the graph control, if I want a steep drop off to stop the fan going below a certain threshold, say 60 degrees, what's the approach? I set e.g. 60° and 20% duty cycle and then 59° and 0% duty cycle? Because I haven't found a way to create a "staircase", hard drop-off between two points in the graph. So maybe this is also a feature request then...  To be able to change a line between two points in the curve to be "staircased", whatever we should call it, rather than a straight line. How about double right clicking the line to toggle it between those two points.

 

2. Regarding the HWiNFO plugin, can we add CPU Package Power and GPU Power to the list of sensors included? I'd like to use this for my ghetto modded PSU where I'm running the fan off of the motherboard instead, so I'd like to control the fan also based on actual power draw, rather than just "the GPU and/or CPU is/are hot, therefore they must be drawing power, therefore spin the fan some". (Why did I do this? Because the stock fan was terrible.)

[Rem0o]

12 hours ago, InterClaw said:

 

1. Using the graph control, if I want a steep drop off to stop the fan going below a certain threshold, say 60 degrees, what's the approach? I set e.g. 60° and 20% duty cycle and then 59° and 0% duty cycle? Because I haven't found a way to create a "staircase", hard drop-off between two points in the graph. So maybe this is also a feature request then...  To be able to change a line between two points in the curve to be "staircased", whatever we should call it, rather than a straight line. How about double right clicking the line to toggle it between those two points.

It is effectively a stair case since the temperature is rounded to an integer, so it's a discrete function. Just set 59 deg to 0 and 60 to whatever you like.

12 hours ago, InterClaw said:

 

2. [...] I'd like to control the fan also based on actual power draw [...]

Last time I checked, spinning a fan doesn't reduce the power draw or affect it in any way. That's something my linear control class teacher would have said. Also, power draw values change wildly. Can go from 250W to 0 in a second. You would need a ton of smoothing, which at that point, might as well use the temperature.  Also, power range would be way different than temperature range, so I would need to support both and add a lot of complication for no benefit.

[Samfisher]

After what seems like many long months in the desert of no fan control, I am back here to report that there is still only partial support for the Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro Wifi, with only half the fan headers responding to FanControl.  Unfortunate, as the compatibility issue is with a 3rd party library T_T

[Niels_at_home]

Firstly it is great to see a potential SpeedFan replacement!

 

Is there some known list of issues? I.e. to give me some idea if I am screwing things up or there might actually be an issue?

 

My Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming ITX doesn't seem to allow CPU fan control. I've made sure I know what fan it is, made a curve, and the fan control correctly says what % fan speed it should be, but the fan speed isn't actually following the curve. Again, correct fan is selected. SpeedFan does allow control of this fan.

 

I have no other fan control or monitoring software things running..

 

 

[I_Like_Junk]

Alright im retarded, is this an incompatibility thing or do  i just not know what im doing. i have no control tabs on first startup like it said there should be in the tutorial video.

[djsubtronic]

Hi, just stumbled upon this and it's awesome. I've been working on a Fan Control app myself (but specific for Clevo laptops) and been looking everywhere for a graph-based curve editor like the one you have in this app (rather than using sliders at fixed temperature intervals). However I was not able to find your source code anywhere, how did you make the curve editor?

[Rem0o]

3 hours ago, djsubtronic said:

Hi, just stumbled upon this and it's awesome. I've been working on a Fan Control app myself (but specific for Clevo laptops) and been looking everywhere for a graph-based curve editor like the one you have in this app (rather than using sliders at fixed temperature intervals). However I was not able to find your source code anywhere, how did you make the curve editor?

It's a custom WPF control I made, based on a Canvas. I simply draw it "by hand", with ellipses (circles), lines and so on using the canvas "SetTop" and "SetLeft" functions.

[djsubtronic]

On 5/21/2021 at 3:51 PM, Rem0o said:

It's a custom WPF control I made, based on a Canvas. I simply draw it "by hand", with ellipses (circles), lines and so on using the canvas "SetTop" and "SetLeft" functions.

Ah I see, thanks! Are you planning on publishing your code anytime?

[InterClaw]

On 5/19/2021 at 3:45 PM, Rem0o said:

It is effectively a stair case since the temperature is rounded to an integer, so it's a discrete function. Just set 59 deg to 0 and 60 to whatever you like.

Last time I checked, spinning a fan doesn't reduce the power draw or affect it in any way. That's something my linear control class teacher would have said. Also, power draw values change wildly. Can go from 250W to 0 in a second. You would need a ton of smoothing, which at that point, might as well use the temperature.  Also, power range would be way different than temperature range, so I would need to support both and add a lot of complication for no benefit.

Fair enough.  Thanks!

[InterClaw]

On 5/20/2021 at 10:24 PM, Niels_at_home said:

Firstly it is great to see a potential SpeedFan replacement!

 

Is there some known list of issues? I.e. to give me some idea if I am screwing things up or there might actually be an issue?

 

My Asrock B550 Phantom Gaming ITX doesn't seem to allow CPU fan control. I've made sure I know what fan it is, made a curve, and the fan control correctly says what % fan speed it should be, but the fan speed isn't actually following the curve. Again, correct fan is selected. SpeedFan does allow control of this fan.

 

I have no other fan control or monitoring software things running..

 

 

That's strange! Since I'm using the same motherboard and not having any issues like that.

 

Did you try another fan on that header? And vice versa, running the CPU fan on another header? Just to try and narrow it down.

 

Also, did you try it with a flat curve? Not responding to that either?

[SammyRai]

This program rocks, just a small question, is it normal that the RAM used by fancontrol.exe is climbing up and up while the application is open (up to 280-300 MB) and while minimized it very slowly goes down to about 33 mb?

[Rem0o]

1 hour ago, SammyRai said:

This program rocks, just a small question, is it normal that the RAM used by fancontrol.exe is climbing up and up while the application is open (up to 280-300 MB) and while minimized it very slowly goes down to about 33 mb?

The UI library I'm using is RAM heavy.