CoreGaze v2.0.0

What's New in CoreGaze v2.0.0

CoreGaze 2.0.0 is a major milestone introducing native CPU power consumption telemetry, live hardware temperature monitoring, and a high-performance, Task Manager-style Process Window.

⚡ CPU Power Consumption Telemetry

• Native Windows Energy Meter (EMI) / RAPL: Reads Intel and AMD Running Average Power Limit MSRs safely through kernel-mediated PDH without third-party drivers or WMI.
• Desktop HUD Watts Readout: The CPU progress bar displays dynamic GHz and active package power: XX.X% @ X.XX GHz (XX.X W).
• Hover Domain Breakdown: Interactive tooltip reveals live Package, Cores (IA), and Memory Controller (DRAM) domain power draw.
• Process Window Power Column: Proportional wattage allocation per process ($P_{\text{proc}} = P_{\text{package}} \times \frac{\text{CPU}%{\text{proc}}}{\text{CPU}%{\text{total}}}$), amber heat-map cell tinting, totals row aggregation, and status bar readout.

🌡️ Live Temperature Monitoring

• CPU, GPU, and NVMe SSD Temperatures: Live sensor readings displayed directly in metric titles.
• Thermal Warning / Critical Color Coding: Automatic thresholds (warning orange, critical red) in whole °C or °F.
• Driverless Sources: ACPI thermal zones for CPU, D3DKMT adapter perf data for GPU, and storage temperature property queries on physical NVMe drives via background thread-pool workers.

📊 Task Manager-Style Process Window (Ctrl+Shift+Alt+P or Tray)

• Comprehensive Process Telemetry: PID, CPU %, Power (W), Memory (private working set, working set, commit charge), GPU engine type & utilization, and total I/O rates.
• Elevated Kernel ETW Session: True per-process disk read/write and network send/receive transfer rates when elevated.
• Productivity & Controls: Instant case-insensitive filtering (Ctrl+F), process grouping by name with expand/collapse, PID-reuse protected End Task, priority adjustment, open file location, and clipboard export.
• DPI-Aware Text Scaling: Scale font size from 12px to 28px (Ctrl + Mouse Wheel or toolbar buttons).

🖥️ Desktop HUD & Multi-Hardware Enhancements

• Per-Monitor v2 DPI Awareness: Crisp rendering at native resolution on any display scaling.
• Task Manager Accuracy: Aligned CPU utilization (% Processor Time) and Disk Active Time with Windows 11 Task Manager.
• Multi-Adapter GPU Modes: Targeted, Highest-Load, Multi-GPU (all rows), or Aggregate with dedicated VRAM bars.
• Network Identity: Auto/manual primary and optional secondary adapter monitoring with live SSID/cellular labeling.

🛡️ Elevation & Security

• Runs non-elevated by default.
• Seamless one-click Restart as Administrator or permanent Always Run as Administrator via highest-privilege scheduled task handoff.
• UIPI message filtering for elevated instances.

📦 Installation & Upgrade

• The standalone installer CoreGaze-Setup-2.0.0.exe performs an in-place upgrade over previous versions without losing settings.
• Links the C++ runtime statically with MinGW: no Visual C++ Redistributable required.

CoreGaze v1.0.0

First release of CoreGaze — a lightweight Windows resource-monitor overlay.

Downloads

File	Use
CoreGaze-Setup-1.0.0.exe	Recommended. Fully self-contained (statically linked) — no runtime dependencies.
CoreGaze-Setup-1.0.0-vcredist.exe	Bundles the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime bootstrapper and installs it if missing.

Both are 64-bit installers for Windows 10/11.

Highlights

• Always-on-top, click-through HUD with live CPU, RAM, GPU, disk, and network telemetry
• Hold ALT to interact with or move the overlay; Ctrl+Shift+O toggles visibility globally
• Threshold color alerts on CPU/RAM/GPU bars (orange at 80%, red at 95%)
• Tray-based runtime controls with persisted settings and a single-instance guard
• Per-category enable/disable, drive selection, GPU adapter modes, primary/secondary network adapters

Notes

• Installers are not code-signed, so SmartScreen may show a warning — choose "More info" → "Run anyway".
• During setup, you can opt into "Start CoreGaze automatically when I sign in".