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Product: Windows Performance Graph Keys (Stream Deck plugin for Windows) · Provider: GRAMSHIFT (Tokyo, Japan)

Ideas and bug reports

Email contact@gramshift.com in English or Japanese. Ideas for new readings, periods and looks are welcome, and every message is read. For a bug, please include your Windows version (Settings > System > About), your graphics card, your Stream Deck app version and model, and a screenshot of the key's settings page (its Status line says what the key is drawing).

Get started

In the Stream Deck app, find Windows Performance Graph Keys in the action list.
Drag Performance Graph onto a key. It shows CPU usage over the last 5 minutes. In its settings, pick the Reading (CPU, GPU, memory, disk, download, upload), the Period and the Look.
For a wider graph, drag more Performance Graph keys next to it in the same row and give them the same reading, period and look. They join into one graph: the left key shows the value now, the right key ends at now.
Drag Performance Overview onto a key for CPU, GPU, memory and network as four small graphs.

On the key

Top: the reading and its value now (left), the period (right). Bottom: the highest reading of the period (MAX 87%). On a wide graph, MAX is at the top right and the time runs along the bottom (-15 min … now).
The newest reading is on the right. A ring marks the highest reading of the period.
Press: the highest reading of the period, the average, and how long ago the highest was, for 4 seconds.
Hold for half a second and release: the next period: 1, 5, 15, 60 minutes, then 1 again. On a wide graph, every key of it switches together.
CPU, GPU, memory and disk turn yellow from 70% and red from 90% (the line, the number, or the whole key with the Solid look).
Recording runs once a second while a key of the plugin is on the screen, and for 60 more minutes after you switch to another page or profile, so the graph shows that time when you come back. After that it stops, and the next key starts afresh.

What the readings are

Reading	What it is
CPU	Total CPU usage, the same measure Task Manager shows on Windows 11 ("% Processor Utility"). It can differ from older tools that use "% Processor Time".
GPU	Usage of the busiest engine of your GPU (3D, video, copy …), from the GPU counters in Windows. With two GPUs (for example built-in and dedicated), the graph follows the busier one.
Memory	Memory in use: total minus available.
Disk	Active time of your busiest disk: the share of time it was working.
Download / Upload	Bytes per second of your PC's physical network adapters. Traffic inside your PC is left out. The graph's height follows the fastest second of the period, so a quiet line stays low and a download fills it.

Looks

Classic (a line on dark gray), Neon (a glowing line on dark blue), Bars (columns), Solid (the whole key in the level color) and Grid (a Task Manager style grid, one color per reading). Classic, Neon, Bars and Solid use the same colors as our System Monitor for Windows keys.

Limits

The plugin shows usage and speed. Temperatures, fan speeds and clock speeds are outside its scope.
If Windows offers no GPU counters on a PC (for example a very old graphics driver), the GPU key says no reading; a newer graphics driver may add them. The other readings keep working.
The history is kept in memory only, for up to 60 minutes. A restart of the Stream Deck app or of the PC starts the graphs afresh.
While the PC sleeps nothing is recorded; the graph shows a gap for that time.

Privacy

The plugin reads usage numbers from Windows and keeps them in memory on your PC. Nothing is sent anywhere. Full details: Privacy Policy.

Troubleshooting

The key shows	What it means
`starting…`	The first readings are coming in; the line starts within a few seconds.
`--` and `no reading`	Windows gives no value for this reading on this PC. The settings page's Status line says which.
Keys side by side show separate graphs	Only keys in the same row, right next to each other, with the same reading, period and look join. Check the three settings of each key.
`Windows only`	The plugin works on Windows.

Compatibility

Windows 10 or later (tested on Windows 11), Stream Deck 6.9 or later. Works on keys.