Problem with DX performance meters

Sunday, May 18, 2008 by philmar83 | Discussion: Skinning

Hi everybody!

I just change my computer for a vista one and the performance meter show me wrong value for Cpu and ram.they are different from the task manager display.I had Xp before and Dx meters I built worked perfectly . Has someone encountered the same problem?what's the solution?

Many thanks for the help
bilbo1930
Reply #1 Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:25 PM
you have UAC enabled?
philmar83
Reply #2 Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:45 PM
I diseabled it just after install desktopx with stardock central.I had a message who told me that meters will not work with. Do you mean I have to enable it?
bilbo1930
Reply #3 Monday, May 19, 2008 1:17 AM
I have always disable UAC, performance meters work fine for me .
philmar83
Reply #4 Monday, May 19, 2008 2:50 AM
grey matter meters work fine for me but mine are now crazy.I set the same configuration for mine as grey matter, connexion with the computer work well but value are different.I test my meters on xp and they work......I will try to uninstall desktopx and see what happened. Thanks to try to help me bilbo
philmar83
Reply #5 Monday, May 19, 2008 4:40 AM
I reinsatll Desktopx and now value are worse than before. i have only 4% of used memory than 38% in the task manager ....has somebody another idea ?

my configuration for info

vista edition familaile premium

Système
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Fabricant Hewlett-Packard
Modèle HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
Quantité totale de mémoire système Mémoire vive 3,00 Go
Type du système Système d’exploitation 32 bits
Nombre de cœurs de processeur 2
Compatible 64 bits Oui

Stockage
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Taille totale des disques durs 298 Go
Partition de disque (C:) 74 Go libre (137 Go au total)
Partition de disque (D:) 99 Go libre (149 Go au total)
Partition de disque (E:) 2 Go libre (12 Go au total)
Lecteur multimédia (F:) CD/DVD

Graphiques
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Afficher le type de carte NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS
Mémoire graphique totale disponible 1791 Mo
Mémoire graphique dédiée 512 Mo
Mémoire système dédiée 0 Mo
Mémoire système partagée 1279 Mo
Afficher la version du pilote de la carte 7.15.11.5665
Résolution du moniteur principal 1440x900
Version DirectX DirectX 9.0 ou version supérieure

Réseau
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Carte réseau Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)
Carte réseau Symantec Network Security Miniport
Carte réseau Symantec Network Security Miniport
Carte réseau Symantec Network Security Miniport
Carte réseau Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
Carte réseau Symantec Network Security Miniport
Carte réseau Carte miniport Microsoft Tun





philmar83
Reply #6 Monday, May 19, 2008 7:58 AM
maybe a screenshot can help

bilbo1930
Reply #7 Monday, May 19, 2008 9:16 AM
Yeah, Richard use Rabidrobot's ram script that work over 2g Ram. The stardock plugin one only works with up to 2 gb's.
philmar83
Reply #8 Monday, May 19, 2008 9:27 AM
many thnaks bilbo for your help. I understand now why it doesn't work. Btw your last widget is beautiful and I really like it.I trie to made a network meter with your graphics for personnal use and I think I will post a screenshot with.

Phil

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