GPU-Z Shared Memory Class in C#

[Kreij]

Hi Paul, and welcome to TPU

GPU-Z is free, but proprietary (no source available). W1zz added the shared mem so other apps could access what it's reading from the GCs.
Sure, you could write your own driver to replicate what GPU-Z does if you are so inclined, but that's not something I'm really interesting in doing since GPU-Z already does it.

[pspost]

Originally Posted by Kreij

but that's not something I'm really interesting in doing since GPU-Z already does it.

That is the point: eliminate third parties(GPU-Z) from getting sensors data, so your application can standalone monitor GC state.

Why own driver? I thought there should be common WinAPI for doing this.

[Vinska]

Originally Posted by pspost

Why own driver? I thought there should be common WinAPI for doing this.

IIRC, You need to 'talk' to the graphics driver to do that.
The fun part is that there are several GPU vendors, along with various driver versions that take courtesy of changing/updating the way You can poll the data from it once in a while with new* versions of the driver. I suppose that includes asking the GPU makers to share with You how to access this data, probably under a NDA, or trying to figure it out Yourself (probably the 'reverse-engineering' way).
Thus, it doesn't look like a trivial task.

*'new' is relative.