Does hiding also disables monitoring?

[garrus]

I am switching from afterburner to hwinfo due to hwinfo's lightweight nature and better overlay. Does hiding metrics also disables the tracking for that metric as well. Basically, I want to disable the ones that are hidden.

 

[Martin]

Yes, hiding a sensor value will also disable its monitoring. In some cases it might be required to disable the sensor heading too. You can check the time required to read a metric by enabling the Profiling Time column.

 

[Timur Born]

There are cases where hiding a sensor does only disable it temporarily. It may not re-enable with the next start of HWinfo, but at some point it does (maybe on PC reboot, haven't checked).

Here is an example:


Unhiding and then hiding the sensor disables it again, but later it will be re-enabled by HWinfo without being unhidden.

 

[Timur Born]

For the time being my workaround is to not hide the problematic sensors, but only disable them. This wastes screen-space, of course.

 

[Timur Born]

I found out why HWinfo keeps re-enabling hidden sensors: when the parent category is disabled and then re-enabled all its child sensors are enabled as well, including hidden sensors.

 

[Martin]

Yes, that's by design.