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PS - Have used HWinfo to check specs before, but not actually to monitor live performance. But like I say good to get to get it confirmed so thanks for clarifying that it is all one and the same issue! (ah, Microsoft you manage to break CPU reporting over 5 generations of CPUs! I did a bit of searching and read at least the measureCPU incorrect one before posting (think that's where I got the idea it was related to Illustro / the settings.ini file, but this and the 1-2 other posts I read all seemed to talk about gen 12 and 13 CPUs so I thought there issue was separate and related to something like a glitch in the latest CPU architecture - whereas I'm sadly only rocking a i7-9750 (9th gen) CPU so thought it was a different thing. Thanks for the links and confirmation of the issue.

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RE Thanks will look into those links / how to fix it

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Sigh, if this is a Windows 11-specific bug then will just add to my list of things that are notably worse in Windows 11 than they are in 10

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I was perfectly happy on Windows 10 but was essentially forced to upgrade a while ago. Yes, I am in Windows 11 22H2 (reluctantly). So you could use HWiNFO as an alternative source of data if you prefer.

I believe the 7.46 version of HWiNFO has added their own fix for this issue to display CPU usage similar to the way it was done in Windows 7. All you need to do is change the CPU measure to a UsageMonitor measure, as described in this post. There is a way to change the Illustro CPU skin to match Task Manager. This is not a Rainmeter thing if you search around you'll see similar issues with HWiNFO, MSI Afterburner, etc., basically anything that relied on Windows time-based performance counters. Task Manager has not displayed data the same as Rainmeter since Windows 8, but it was not noticeable until Win11 22H2 when Microsoft made a huge change to the way they report CPU usage. This is known behavior on systems running Windows 11 22H2 and later it was OK in earlier versions of Windows 11. Skins show lower than actual CPU Usage in Windows 11 22H2 New computer on intel 13th gen W11 (CPU Usage is wrong) This is an old issue that does not have anything to do with the Illustro skin or Rainmeter. If anyone can please let me know why this is happening / how to fix it, that would be great! Like I say I have been using Rainmeter for years and really like it, but the CPU usage is getting to the point now where if I can't fix it I am going to have to use another tool instead. I will hear my fans kick-in (and the system is clearly doing something), Illustro skin (System.ini) shows 1-2% usage but I open task manager and the CPU is churning around at 20.

For the last 2 days it's been crazy, and has been reporting usage 20-30% lower than what's in Task Manager.In the last month month it started to get 5-10% out.However 2-3 months ago I started to notice the CPU usage was a bit out (about 5% lower than Task Manager).I've been using Rainmeter and slightly tweaked Illustro skin for the past couple of years and it has been great.Summary: Any known issues with Illustro skin around CPU usage? (and if so, any fixes?)Īdditional information / description of issue.

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