In-Game Performance Stats Available in the Steam Client Beta

Steam's in-game overlay can render a performance monitor in one corner of your screen while you are playing a game. This feature is designed to help you understand how you game is running, what type of load the game is putting your system under, and whether your hardware is performing as you'd expect it to. The performance monitor shows you detailed FPS (frame rate) performance information, CPU performance information, GPU performance information, and System RAM information. This FAQ focuses on the full set of metrics initially available on Windows PCs, but much of it will apply to other supported operating systems and while some metrics are not supported on other operating systems additional support is planned for later.

The performance monitor can help you understand your frame rate (both including frame generation, and base game frame rate), and it can help you see if CPU utilization might be your bottleneck, or if your GPU is. You can see if you are out of system or video memory and if those factors are impacting performance as well. The performance monitor looks something like the below at full detail (detail levels, screen position, contrast/saturation, and background opacity are adjustable in Settings->In Game).

To enable the performance monitor, go to Settings->In Game, and find the Performance Monitor settings and detail level options.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/3462-CD4C-36BD-5767

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