The basics
What exactly is Interactive Hud?
A premium hardware guardian for Windows. It shows every sensor in your PC — CPU, GPU, RAM, FPS, temps, power — as hand-crafted animated art, but it does far more than look good: it learns what's normal for your machine, warns you in plain language when something drifts, grades every gaming session, and writes you a monthly health report. It watches, remembers, and knows your hardware.
What can it monitor?
CPU, GPU, RAM, FPS, disks, network, fans, temperatures and power draw — every sensor your hardware exposes to Windows. You choose which ones to show and how.
Does it work over my games?
Yes. It floats on top in borderless or windowed mode, over any game or right on your desktop. Drag, resize and snap individual meters, or run one fused dashboard — with transparency up to 90%.
The guardian
How does it actually catch problems?
It keeps a quiet history of your machine and compares the present with your own normal. Over weeks it can spot heat creeping up (dust or aging thermal paste), an FPS drop tied to a specific driver update, an SSD wearing down, or a power supply's voltage rails starting to sag. It's conservative by design — it only speaks once it's sure, names the likely cause and the safest fix, and never cries wolf.
What's the monthly health report?
Once a month, a plain-language check-up of your machine: hours watched, dated thermal records, every warning it raised, an honest read on reliability, and a share-ready card. Think of it as the report a technician would give you — except it's already done, entirely local, and yours to keep.
Can it warn me before my rig is even in trouble?
That's the whole point. Alerts are drawn in the language of the gauge itself — you feel a problem before you read it — with thresholds grounded in real limits for CPU, GPU, disk, ping and FPS. And it reads your factory specs to flag a rig set up wrong from day one: RAM in single channel, XMP/EXPO off, a GPU capped below stock.
Performance & privacy
Will it cost me FPS?
No. You cap the overlay itself at 30 or 60 FPS and it sips CPU/GPU, so your game keeps the frames it needs. It's built to get out of the way mid-match.
Is my data private?
100% local. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Your sessions, your machine diary and your hardware profile live in a folder on your own PC — and nowhere else. Nothing is ever uploaded.
What is the "second screen"?
You can send the whole HUD to a phone or tablet on your own network and read your temps, FPS and power there — leaving your game screen completely clean. It's LAN-only and off by default: the address is protected by a code, and nothing ever leaves your home network.
What about the Discord status?
Optional and off by default. If you turn it on, your Discord profile can show what you're playing and your session grade. Because that emits data to Discord (which shares it with your friends), it stays off until you switch it on — and turning it off clears it instantly.
Does it need an internet connection?
Only to check for updates when you ask it to. Everything else — monitoring, reports, the diary, the second screen — works fully offline (the second screen runs on your local network).
Compatibility
Which Windows do I need?
Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit). Windows only for now.
My RTX 50 GPU shows no “hot spot” temperature — why?
That isn't Interactive Hud. NVIDIA removed the GPU core hot-spot sensor across the entire RTX 50 series at the driver level, so no monitoring tool can read it. Your memory-junction temperature still shows normally.
Some sensors show N/A — is something broken?
Sensor availability depends on your motherboard and its drivers. If fan or temperature sensors stop reporting, a restart almost always brings them back — it re-initializes the monitoring chip on your board. Note that PC sensors can only be read reliably by one app at a time, so closing other monitoring tools also helps.
Is it safe with anti-cheat?
Interactive Hud never hooks into your game, so it stays clear of anti-cheat. A few kernel-level anti-cheat systems block all third-party sensor drivers, which can limit some readings in those specific titles — but the overlay itself keeps working.