Quote Originally Posted by Wishmaker View Post
With the latest RT version, my Core 3 keeps on disappearing from my taskbar
I'm innocent. I can't remember doing anything recently to RealTemp that would change how the system tray works. I'll see if there is anything I can do differently to work around this new Windows 7 feature but so far no one has reported this problem so I'm not sure what's going on. Are you sure you have the Windows 7 System Tray notification stuff set up correctly?

I'm happy to see that RealTemp 3.50 at least runs on your ATI CrossFire system without blowing up.

Here's the theory. When running CrossFire, one of your GPUs is supposed to go to sleep to save power at idle. In 2D mode, you don't need an uber GPU setup to move the mouse pointer around on the screen. To monitor the core temperature of each GPU, I would need to make sure that both GPUs are awake which would kill this power saving feature. I didn't think that would be a good idea but most users aren't happy when RealTemp only reports the temperature for one GPU when at the Desktop.

When you start gaming and both GPUs are actively working, RealTemp is designed to monitor both GPUs and collect temperature data for both of them and should report the highest GPU temperature in the GPU button on the main screen. That's the theory.

Does this work correctly? At the moment I don't know. Without having access to an ATI GPU let alone a pair of them in CrossFire mode makes development a pain in the butt.

You could try running a GPU-Z log while gaming and compare the peak GPU core temperature to what RealTemp logs to see if RealTemp really is reading both GPUs when in 3D and reporting the highest GPU core temperature. It should but I don't have a way to test this.

I might try to redesign this and let RealTemp wake up both cores while in 2D so it can read and report the temperature of both cores. There's not really a practical reason to do this since your GPU core temperature shouldn't be an issue in 2D but I think most enthusiasts would be happier if I said to hell with power saving and went for more reporting. At least there's a reason why RealTemp does weird things on CrossFire systems.

I was hoping to get back to work on RealTemp last week but I'm still having fun on the Notebook forum working on my new ThrottleStop program. Maybe next week. I'll put your name on my CrossFire testers list. Hopefully with some help I can make some improvements.