A fast, lightweight MSI Center alternative and fan control utility for MSI laptops.
Please read the whole README (or at least the Supported Laptops and FAQ sections) before downloading.
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- This program requires low-level access to some of your computer hardware to apply settings. While no issues should arise from this, I (Sparronator9999) and any other contributers shall not be held responsible if this program fries your computer.
- Additionally, if you do something silly with the program like turn off all your fans while running under full load, we will not be held responsible for any damage you cause to your own hardware from your use of this program.
- Linux is not yet supported. Please don't beg me for Linux support, it will come when I can be bothered (and when I figure out how to run background services/daemons on Linux).
- This program, repository and its authors are not affiliated with Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. in any way, shape, or form.
- Fan control: Change the fan curves for your CPU and GPU fans, including fan speeds, temperature thresholds, and Full Blast (a.k.a. Cooler Boost in MSI Center). This allows you to fix a curve that is not aggressive enough under full load, turn your fans off when your computer is idle, or just give them a boost during CPU-heavy tasks.
- Performance mode: MSI laptops have their own performance mode setting (not to be confused with Windows' built-in power plans). You can change it here.
- Charging threshold: This program can limit how much your laptop's battery charges to, which can help reduce battery degradation, especially if you leave your laptop plugged in all the time.
- Lightweight: YAMDCC takes up less than two megabytes of disk space when installed, and is designed to be light on your laptop's CPU.
- Configurable: Almost all settings (including those not accessible through the config editor) can be changed with the power of XML.
Currently, there are configs for the following laptops:
- MSI Crosshair 17 B12UGZ (thanks @ios7jbpro)
- MSI GF63 Thin 11SC
- MSI Modern 15 A5M (thanks @tedomi2705)
- MSI Katana GF66 12UG (thanks @porkmanager)
- MSI Titan GT77HX 13VH (thanks @noteMASTER11)
There are also generic configs that should work with most MSI laptops, but with an incorrect default config. You can use the EC-to-config feature to get the proper fan curves for your laptop, then create a pull request to get your laptop's config added to the project.
Other laptop brands are not officially supported. You can still try and make your own config, but chances are you're looking for NoteBook FanControl instead.
The following laptops have been tested by the community and are confirmed to be working, but don't have their own public YAMDCC configs. A suggested generic config is provided below:
- MSI Raider GE66 12UGS (thanks @grimy400):
MSI-10th-gen-or-newer-dualfan.xml - MSI Vector 17 HX A14VHG (thanks @injitools):
MSI-10th-gen-or-newer-dualfan-nokeylight.xml - MSI Vector GP78 HX 13V (thanks @Twisted6):
MSI-10th-gen-or-newer-dualfan.xml
To test your laptop, go to the config tutorial wiki page and follow the instructions to get a config for your laptop.
| Feature | MSI Center | YAMDCC |
|---|---|---|
| Installed size | ~950 MB² | ~2.5 MB² |
| Fan control | ✔ | ✔ |
| Temp. threshold control | ❌ | ✔ |
| Multi-fan profile support | ❌ | ✔ |
| Charge threshold setting | Limited³ | ✔ |
| Perf. mode setting | ✔ | ✔ |
| Win/Fn key swap¹ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Win key disable | ✔ | ❌ |
| Keyboard backlight adjustment¹ | ❌ | ✔ |
| Hardware monitoring | ✔ | Limited⁴ |
| Other MSI Center features | ✔ | ❌ |
| Open source | ❌ | ✔ |
1: Support for this feature depends on the specific MSI laptop model and YAMDCC support.
2: As of v2.0.38, MSI Center takes about 950 MB of storage space when counting
the UWP app (749 MB) and the files installed on first launch to
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSI (205 MB). YAMDCC's installed size is based on the
Release build of v1.0,
and includes all unzipped program files and included config XMLs.
3: MSI Center only supports setting the charge threshold to 60%, 80%, or 100%, while YAMDCC can set this to anything between 0 and 100% (with 0 meaning charge to 100% always).
4: YAMDCC only supports monitoring the CPU/GPU temperatures and fan speeds via EC.
The following features are currently planned for v1.1:
- Hotkey support (requested by @grimy400)
- This will most likely be implemented as a separate background program that listens to keyboard shortcuts, since Windows services (or at least those running as Local System) can't "see" keyboard input.
- Switch fan profiles on performance mode setting adjustment (#37)
Below are some planned features for potential future releases:
- CLI support
- Development of a CLI application for YAMDCC has started, but isn't publicly available yet
- The CLI is missing a lot of features, and could do with a rewrite.
- Development of a CLI application for YAMDCC has started, but isn't publicly available yet
- GPU switch support (currently being researched)
- Support for editing laptop config registers using the GUI/CLI
- This would allow for creating configs for other laptop brands from the config UI
- Currently, the only way to do this is to edit the XML directly.
- Plugin system for additional optional features (needs research)
- .NET support
- Mandatory for Linux support
- The GUI should compile on .NET 8 (and in fact has been compiled on .NET 8 before).
- The Windows service on the other hand... is going to be interesting. Even
with the
Microsoft.Windows.Compatibilitypackage installed, I still wasn't able to get the service to run without issues.
- Linux support (not guaranteed)
- Now this would require some figuring out, and may end up being a seperate project that's compatible with this project's configs.
Beta builds are available from GitHub releases.
Development builds are available through GitHub Actions.
If you don't have a GitHub account, you can also download the latest development build from nightly.link.
You're probably looking for the Release build, unless you're debugging issues with the program.
Alternatively, you can build the program yourself.
See also the wiki page.
- Install Visual Studio 2022 with the
.NET Desktop Developmentworkload checked. - Download the code repository, or clone it with
git. - Extract the downloaded code, if needed.
- Open
YAMDCC.slnin Visual Studio. - Click
Build>Build Solutionto build everything. - Your output, assuming default build settings, is located in
YAMDCC.ConfigEditor\bin\Debug\net48\. - ???
- Profit!
Make sure to only use matching yamdccsvc.exe and ConfigEditor.exe together,
otherwise you may encounter issues (that means net stop yamdccsvc first, then
compile).
- Follow steps 1-3 above to install Visual Studio and download the code.
- Open
Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022andcdto your project directory. - Run
msbuild /t:restoreto restore the solution, including NuGet packages. - Run
msbuild YAMDCC.sln /p:platform="Any CPU" /p:configuration="Debug"to build the project, substitutingDebugwithReleaseif you want a release build instead. - Your output should be located in
YAMDCC.ConfigEditor\bin\Debug\net48\, assuming you built with the above unmodified command. - ???
- Profit!
If your question isn't already answered in the FAQ or issues megathread, and there isn't already another similar issue in the issue tracker, feel free to open an issue. Please make sure to use the correct issue template for your problem.
See the compile instructions to build this project.
If you would like to contribute to the project with bug fixes, new features, or new configs, feel free to open a pull request. Please include the following:
- Bug fixes/improvements/new feature: Describe the changes you made and why they are important or useful.
- New config: Add a config with your laptop's default fan profile so that other people don't have to run the EC-to-config tool.
This section has been moved to the wiki.
Copyright © 2023-2025 Sparronator9999.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
This project makes use of the following third-party libraries:
- Json.NET (Newtonsoft.Json) to parse obtained release manifests from GitHub.
- Marked .NET to parse release changelogs.
- My fork of Named Pipe Wrapper
for communication between the service and UI program (called
YAMDCC.IPCin the source files). - Task Scheduler Managed Wrapper to schedule automatic update checks.
- WinRing0 for low-level hardware access required to read/write the EC.