I wrote an alternative to CPU-Z, HWInfo and CrystalDiskMark all in one modern app.

[Pomian]

Hi! Today I wanted to share with you my little project that I have been working on since the beginning of my studies. 

It irritates me that monitoring applications are often outdated in terms of appearance, and Asus or Gigabyte applications looks "too gamery". That's why I wanted to do something that looks like a native application, and provides everything in the most convenient interface possible.

 

And here you can see the effects:

 

You like this? Maybe you have any suggestions? Thank you in advance for feedback 

[Donut Dan]

I like the GUI!

[emosun]

In my opinion theres quite a lot of empty space which is very in line with modern apps having to support touch interfaces and peoples fingers. Not really my cup of tea but visually it looks more modern and more "consumer friendly" and i think it definitely fits in with the way applications are currently trending

[IkeaGnome]

Looks really good. 

How much of the HwInfo like information is on it? Perf cap reasons, specific core temps, specific core voltages etc.

Also, what benchmarks does it run?

[Radium_Angel]

I'd skip the quite subjective "could be better" and simply state "out of range" or something like that

[Pomian]

Just now, IkeaGnome said:

Looks really good. 

How much of the HwInfo like information is on it? Perf cap reasons, specific core temps, specific core voltages etc.

 

I chose the information that seems to me the most important for the consumer, later I want to add the "Advanced" tab, where will be everything that can be read.

 

[GuiltySpark_]

The biggest draw to something like HWInfo is the known and trusted accuracy. I love the look but if the data is funky, that'll be a problem. 

[Pomian]

1 minute ago, rickeo said:

The biggest draw to something like HWInfo is the known and trusted accuracy. I love the look but if the data is funky, that'll be a problem. 

 

Information is obtained from LibreHardwareMonitor library, at which I also try to help. We try to extract information and correct it in relation to what the producers provide

https://github.com/LibreHardwareMonitor/LibreHardwareMonitor

[IkeaGnome]

2 minutes ago, Pomian said:

I chose the information that seems to me the most important for the consumer, later I want to add the "Advanced" tab, where will be everything that can be read.

Minus the lack of perf cap reasons (makes it easy to help someone that doesn't know what they're looking for or at a quick glace), that looks like a really slick program. 

Any plans on Github or the similar?

Have you tested it compared to Hwinfo to see margin of error?

[Tech87]

5 minutes ago, Pomian said:

 

I chose the information that seems to me the most important for the consumer, later I want to add the "Advanced" tab, where will be everything that can be read.

 

Looks nice and professional.

Are you able to expand the processor clocks to show the speeds of each core?

[Pomian]

2 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

Minus the lack of perf cap reasons (makes it easy to help someone that doesn't know what they're looking for or at a quick glace), that looks like a really slick program. 

Any plans on Github or the similar?

Have you tested it compared to Hwinfo to see margin of error?

 

I have already put the applications into the store

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/radiograph/9nh1p86h06cg

, it should also be downloadable with a command:

winget install radiograph

 

[Pomian]

3 minutes ago, Tech87 said:

Looks nice and professional.

Are you able to expand the processor clocks to show the speeds of each core?

 Apparently it is possible, but all the time I am trying to write quite a complicated control which is the Tree List. Until I figure out the best way to do it, it won't be in an official release

 

The screen below shows a working example in the old version, but it had big problems updating the data

 

[the gamer that is bad]

when i tried it it was reporting 0 volts on my cpu

[Elijah Kamski]

32 minutes ago, Pomian said:

 

I chose the information that seems to me the most important for the consumer, later I want to add the "Advanced" tab, where will be everything that can be read.

 

I would love a freaking advance tab, even though I won't ever use it XD

Looks good so far, simple to use, perfect for the general consumer.

Sir I award you with the Person of the Year award in the LTT forums, if non exists, it does now, because this is a very good idea, and will hopefully help consumers tap into computers a bit more

[Dreckssackblase]

looks really nice and should be more than enough info for the average joe, but damn am I missing my good old line graphs.

Also some of the Data it's pulling seems odd like a 75hz refresh rate and a 100 watt power limit on my GPU but I guess that would be LibreHardwaremonitors fault.

 

[zogthegreat]

Looks really nice.... any non Microsoft Store downloads available? Don't feel like having Microsith watching my every move.

[b1t5murf]

Interesting UI concepts.
However as mentioned in other comments, you could reduce the space between the graphical components a bit and better take advantage of the space you have available :)

I hope it isn't another Electron/JS based app, that would be a deal breaker for me.

[Pomian]

5 minutes ago, b1t5murf said:

Interesting UI concepts.
However as mentioned in other comments, you could reduce the space between the graphical components a bit and better take advantage of the space you have available

I hope it isn't another Electron/JS based app, that would be a deal breaker for me.

 

All of these are native vector-based WPF controls with no external solutions.

[Pomian]

15 minutes ago, Dreckssackblase said:

looks really nice and should be more than enough info for the average joe, but damn am I missing my good old line graphs.

Also some of the Data it's pulling seems odd like a 75hz refresh rate and a 100 watt power limit on my GPU but I guess that would be LibreHardwaremonitors fault.

 

 

This data is obtained by my Driller library, some of them are based on deceptive WMI, this is something I want to improve in the future

[b1t5murf]

4 minutes ago, Pomian said:

All of these are native vector-based WPF controls with no external solutions.

That's at least somewhat positive.
The UI does look like there has been put thought into representing the data in a good way - kudos!

Personally, I wouldn't have gone down that route with WPF if it was me though.

[porina]

Haven't used it, but just from the images provided it looks very low information density. For example, this is in part why I dislike AMD's GPU software interface. It is just wasting space trying to look nice. Information is more important than looks. It also kinda reminds me of other info tools that I've long forgotten, since they didn't offer anything over the established players.

 

Also consider two separate use cases. Information and monitoring. Apart from the current CPU clock (and others that may vary with power state), CPU-Z is mostly providing unchanging information. HWINFO has elements of both, but I think it is mostly used for monitoring of values.

 

As it currently stands I don't see any reason why I would want to run it instead of the individual apps mentioned.

[Mark Kaine]

i like the UI,  but its just like most other apps, an "app" kind of impractical,  something like this would be ideally an "interactive overlay" , which i understand would be very hard to do, especially with minimal performance impact.

 

there's also the uncertainty of unknown side effects of course,  if something simple like OpenRGB can brick [msi] motherboards, what can this do, which seems far more complex and intrusive...?

 

18 minutes ago, b1t5murf said:

However as mentioned in other comments, you could reduce the space between the graphical components a bit and better take advantage of the space you have available

i think the spacing is excellent,  but as said above its just some windows,  so will be quite obstructive and impractical like almost all other such apps.

 

Also op, don't get me wrong,  i don't really love it or hate it,  im just giving my opinion,  and hopefully at least some constructive criticism,  although i know,  what i personally would find modern is damn near impossible on windows,  which after all is a 50 year old design not really made for interactivity... they tried with Vista... sobs...

 

 

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

I'd skip the quite subjective "could be better" and simply state "out of range" or something like that

where does it say that, does it go all out meme? it should be a popup! 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, Pomian said:

I have already put the applications into the store

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/radiograph/9nh1p86h06cg

, it should also be downloadable with a command:

winget install radiograph

what about people without a ms account,  or a working windows store for that matter, sol?

 

maybe you could consider github, or even mega? (definitely prefer mega personally,  except their dumb quotas lol) 

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, Mark Kaine said:

where does it say that,

To the right of the storage, next to "Status". I assume it's referring to the temp (they match in colour) but I"m not certain

[Pomian]

37 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

what about people without a ms account,  or a working windows store for that matter, sol?

 

maybe you could consider github, or even mega? (definitely prefer mega personally,  except their dumb quotas lol) 

 

Free apps does not require logging into MS account. Besides, I think MS store is going in a better direction and Microsoft's opening up it to non-containerized applications only makes more sense. Plus, the Radiograph in the store version has been verified by a Microsoft employee and signed with a digital certificate. It increases the security and certainty of the origin of the application. I believe that these are important aspects.

[Pomian]

30 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

i like the UI,  but its just like most other apps, an "app" kind of impractical,  something like this would be ideally an "interactive overlay" , which i understand would be very hard to do, especially with minimal performance impact.

 

there's also the uncertainty of unknown side effects of course,  if something simple like OpenRGB can brick [msi] motherboards, what can this do, which seems far more complex and intrusive...?

 

i think the spacing is excellent,  but as said above its just some windows,  so will be quite obstructive and impractical like almost all other such apps.

 

Also op, don't get me wrong,  i don't really love it or hate it,  im just giving my opinion,  and hopefully at least some constructive criticism,  although i know,  what i personally would find modern is damn near impossible on windows,  which after all is a 50 year old design not really made for interactivity... they tried with Vista... sobs...

 

Thank you for your extensive feedback.

By responding to some of them, the data is read, not written. So, apart from the applications freezing each other by trying to access the same protected system levels, there should be no major errors.

 

As for Interactive Overlay, I am trying to recreate it using DirectX to attach onto processes, much like RivaTuner Statistics, but it still requires a lot of learning and testing from me.