Process Hacker 2.25, GPU Monitoring

Process Hacker can be seen as the open-source clone of Process Explorer. Process Hacker is a Windows utility for manipulating processes, threads and services. It can replace Windows task manager. Here are the key features:

• A simple, customizable tree view with highlighting showing you the processes running on your computer.
• Detailed system statistics with graphs.
• Advanced features not found in other programs, such as detaching from debuggers, viewing GDI handles, viewing heaps, injecting and unloading DLLs, and more.
• Powerful process termination that bypasses security software and rootkits.
• View, edit and control services, including those not shown by the Services console.
• View and close network connections.
• Starts up almost instantly, unlike other programs.

In a recent version of Process Hacker (the version 2.23 to be accurate), the support of GPU monitoring has been added. Then I quickly tested the monitoring of GPU usage (or load) with FurMark. On my system, I have a GTX 460 (primary renderer) and a GTS 250 as a secondary card. Like Process Explorer, there are nodes (engines in Process explorer) that should represent GPU units or something like that. By default, the node 0 is selected, which corresponds to the GTS 250, the secondary card in my PC. To monitoring the GTX 460, I had to check the node 6. The indication GeForce GTS 250 is wrong, should be GeForce GTX 460.

I think I’ll keep using EVGA Precision / MSI Afterburner / GPU Shark to monitoring my GPUs. But for playing with system threads and processes, Process Hacker is a nice tool. What’s more, the availability of the source code makes it a great way to dive into Windows’s internals.

More information about Process Hacker can be found HERE. Process Hacker 2.25 binaries as well as the source code can be downloaded HERE.