graphics() improved nvidia-smi detection (windows)

Author: sebhildebrandt

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ For major (breaking) changes - **version 4, 3 and 2** - see end of page.
 
 | Version | Date       | Comment                                                                                             |
 | ------- | ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| 5.30.6  | 2026-01-22 | `graphics()` improved nvidia-smi detection (windows)                                                |
 | 5.30.5  | 2026-01-16 | `networkInterfaces()` fix uppercase iface names (linux)                                             |
 | 5.30.4  | 2026-01-15 | `powerShell()` fix UTF8 output (windows)                                                            |
 | 5.30.3  | 2026-01-11 | Updated docs, code cleanup                                                                          |

docs/history.html

@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ <h3>Full version history</h3>
                     </tr>
                   </thead>
                   <tbody>
+                    <tr>
+                      <th scope="row">5.30.6
+                      </th>
+                      <td>2026-01-22</td>
+                      <td><span class="code">graphics()</span> improved nvidia-smi detection (windows)</td>
+                    </tr>
                     <tr>
                       <th scope="row">5.30.5
                       </th>

docs/index.html

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
       <img class="logo" src="assets/logo.png" alt="logo">
       <div class="title">systeminformation</div>
       <div class="subtitle"><span id="typed"></span>&nbsp;</div>
-      <div class="version">New Version: <span id="version">5.30.5</span></div>
+      <div class="version">New Version: <span id="version">5.30.6</span></div>
       <button class="btn btn-light" onclick="location.href='https://github.com/sebhildebrandt/systeminformation'">View on Github <i class=" fab fa-github"></i></button>
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lib/graphics.js

@@ -455,12 +455,12 @@ function graphics(callback) {
     if (nvidiaSmiExe) {
       const nvidiaSmiOpts =
         '--query-gpu=driver_version,pci.sub_device_id,name,pci.bus_id,fan.speed,memory.total,memory.used,memory.free,utilization.gpu,utilization.memory,temperature.gpu,temperature.memory,power.draw,power.limit,clocks.gr,clocks.mem --format=csv,noheader,nounits';
-      const cmd = nvidiaSmiExe + ' ' + nvidiaSmiOpts;
+      const cmd = `"${nvidiaSmiExe}" ${nvidiaSmiOpts}`;
       if (_linux) {
         options.stdio = ['pipe', 'pipe', 'ignore'];
       }
       try {
-        const sanitized = util.sanitizeShellString(cmd) + (_linux ? '  2>/dev/null' : '') + (_windows ? '  2> nul' : '');
+        const sanitized = cmd + (_linux ? '  2>/dev/null' : '') + (_windows ? '  2> nul' : '');
         const res = execSync(sanitized, options).toString();
         return res;
       } catch {