Crystal-LCD

A custom Rainmeter telemetry engine driving a 1920×480 glass LCD with real-time PC stats, overclock info, and FPS.

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🎥 Demo

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⭐ Purpose

Crystal-LCD is a glass-style telemetry HUD for a dedicated 1920×480 LCD panel.
It’s built to sit under the main display and show everything that actually matters while gaming or stress-testing:

• ⭐ AMD star-core tracking, including real-time core-parking detection and a gold 3XD indicator when a V-Cache star core activates
• CPU clocks, temps, utilization, power, overclock indicator
• GPU clocks, temps, VRAM usage, PCIe link speed, power draw
• FPS (live + rolling average) with layout switching at high framerates
• Pump RPM, radiator temperature (current + max)
• Per-drive SMART health, lifespan, and temperature
• System uptime, RAM usage, top CPU process

All of this is driven through Rainmeter + HWiNFO + MSI Afterburner + plugins, wired together by a single CrystalTelemetry.ini and GIF.ini.

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📝 Notes

• This skin is tuned for a specific hardware setup and resolution (1920×480).

• It can be adapted, but the intent is very much:

  “This is my personal real-time crystal rgb pc telemetry application that's visable while playing video games.”

The .ini is intentionally dense: it’s a full subsystem, not a toy widget.

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🧩 Features

🔥 CPU Telemetry

• CPU total usage with warning color when > 90%
• Per-core utilization
• Active-clock selection logic (detects which CCD is active, x3D vs non-3D)
• CPU clock reporting
• CPU voltage
• CPU package power
• CPU temperature (current + max)
• Overclock indicator with gold pulse when the x3D path is active

🎮 GPU Telemetry (GPU 0 + optional GPU 1)

• Core clock
• Memory clock
• GPU temps (current + max)
• PCIe link speed
• GPU voltage
• Total power draw
• VRAM usage (%) and allocated (GB/MB)
• PCIe + VRAM + voltage combined readout line

🎯 FPS + Performance Behavior

• Live FPS
• Rolling average
• Auto layout switching at ≥ 100 FPS
• Click-to-refresh hotspot

🧠 Memory + System

• RAM used vs total
• Swap usage
• System uptime
• CPU name (registry)

💾 Storage / SMART Telemetry

• Drive Fail / Warning status
• Drive Life %
• Drive temperature per-drive

💧 Cooling / Loop Monitoring

• Pump RPM
• Radiator temperature (current + max)

🧨 Top Process View

• Live top CPU process
• CPU % for that process

⚡ Total Power (Combined)

• GPU + CPU power sum (ready when you enable CPU_Power)

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🧰 Technology Stack

💻 Application Environment

• Windows + Rainmeter
• HWiNFO
• MSI Afterburner
• AdvancedCPU.dll
• Mini 1920×480 LCD panel

⚙️ Code & Config

• Rainmeter .ini skin
• Lua helper scripts
• C++ plugin backends for HWiNFO, MSI, AdvancedCPU

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📁 Structure (High Level)

Crystal-LCD/
  CrystalTelemetry.ini        # Main Rainmeter skin for the LCD
  @Resources/
    Variables.inc             # Colors, fonts, sizing, shared variables
    Sensors.inc               # HWiNFO / MSI ID mappings (per-machine)
    Images/                   # Backgrounds, reflection overlays, etc.
  assets/
    LCD.gif                   # Demo animation for README