Welcome to RIGStats — and how you can help

[dvalfrid]

Hi, and welcome! 👋

RIGStats started as a replacement for ROG Armoury Crate: a lightweight, simple program that does what it should, does it well, and stays out of your way. No bloat, no accounts, no telemetry — just your hardware, under your control.

Today it's a hardware monitor and control center for Windows gaming PCs: live sensors on a second screen, the desktop or an in-game overlay, and profiles (Silent, Balanced, Gaming, Eco and your own) that set fan curves, power limits, RGB lighting and even your desktop background or Wallpaper Engine — and can switch by themselves while a game runs.

How you can help

RIGStats is built by one person. Its sensor readings have been checked on seven machines — AMD and Intel desktops, an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 and a Razer Blade, Radeon and GeForce cards — but the hardware control (fans, power limits, lighting) has mostly been tested on one PC: a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, a Radeon RX 9070 XT, an ASUS B650M board and ROG peripherals. What helps most is hardware it hasn't met yet — and that needs no programming at all:

• 🧪 Try it on your hardware and tell us what works and what doesn't in Hardware testing. Especially wanted: ASUS laptops (Control Center: ASUS laptops via ATKACPI (performance mode, fan curves, power limits) #234), Intel CPUs (Control Center phase 2b: Intel CPU power limits (PL1/PL2) #209), NVIDIA graphics cards (Control Center phase 3b: NVIDIA GPU power limit (NVML) #210), Bluetooth headsets and mice (feat(peripherals): battery status for Bluetooth devices #291), and lighting devices marked "not yet verified" (Help wanted: confirm devices marked "not yet verified" (lighting and battery) #341).
• 📦 Attach a diagnostics ZIP when something doesn't work (Status → Collect Diagnostics…) — it's what turns "it doesn't work" into a fix. It holds your hardware details and RIGStats' logs and settings, including your computer and Windows user name (environment.txt) — look through it before you share it, and remove anything you'd rather not.
• 🙏 Ask in Q&A — no question is too small.
• 💡 Suggest ideas in Ideas.
• 🖥️ Show your setup in Show and tell — dashboards, desks, profiles.
• 🛠️ Write code — start with a good first issue; CONTRIBUTING.md gets you building in a few minutes.

Bugs go in issues; everything else is welcome here.

A note on how it's built: RIGStats is developed with AI assistance (Claude), and every change goes through tests, CI, live testing on real hardware and signed releases. Contributions are welcome with or without AI tools.

Thanks for being here — and for every report, idea and fix. 🙌