Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter
Valve released another Steam Client Beta update and this time, they’re giving Desktop gamers a whole new Performance Monitor HUD. It’s replacing the FPS counter, giving you a feature that’s much more like the Performance Overlay found on the Steam Deck.
You have to opt into the Steam Beta Client to access it. Settings -> Interface -> Client Beta Participation. Then it’s available via Settings -> In Game, scroll down and find the Performance Monitor settings and detail level options.
It adds the ability to show an overlay on top of games with details like FPS, CPU info, GPU info, RAM. Here’s how it would look on Windows with a shot I took earlier to test:
Pictured – Steam Performance Monitor on Windows (top left)
You can adjust the text contrast and the background opacity, I had them at max to easily show it.
The catch for Linux gamers? Currently, the focus is on Windows with Linux missing most of the options.
Not a big deal right now, since we have MangoHud that does the job very nicely until Valve work in proper Linux support on this new feature. On Linux you only get the “FPS Single Value” and “FPS Detail & Graph” options.
Pictured – Steam Performance Monitor on Linux (top left)
Better Linux support for it is planned, as they said in the FAQ:
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.
Really nice to see Valve do this. Having it on Steam Deck is so useful and when rolled out fully, it will give more people access to such a great feature without needing external software.
A bit small at higher resolutions though, so hopefully they add in some HUD scaling options for better accessibility with this new feature.
Other changes in this Steam Beta:
Steam Input
- Improved detection of FlyDigi Vader series controllers
Remote Play
- Improved audio resilience to variable network conditions
Source: Valve
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
