New Steam Feature is Live
Steam has released their new helpful feature which allow players to monitor their system performance while they’re playing games.
New Steam Feature is Here
In late 2024, Steam released an update adding video recording options to both the PC platform and the Steam Deck. While there are plenty of third-party program options for recording gameplay videos, having a built-in option via Steam was generally received well by players. Cutting down on background programs while gaming can help to improve performance, so those users may also appreciate this new update.
Now, Steam has released a new update that adds a performance monitor to the game platform. Steam can directly render the performance monitor over a player’s game, allowing them to keep an eye on their system performance seamlessly. The performance monitor will display information on FPS, including generated frames from DLSS or FSR, as well as CPU, GPU, and system RAM usage information. Players will be able to adjust the display as well, changing color saturation, text size, and opacity to ensure that the overlay is as visible or unobstructive as a user likes.
If players want to enable this feature, they need to follow these steps.
- Go to Steam Settings.
- Click In Game Category
- Scroll Down to Overlay Performance
- Choose the Placement for your choice
Players can also set up a toggle key to make the monitor appear or disappear as needed without having to go into the popular game platform’s settings every time.
Steam adds that it will be continuing to tweak the performance monitor, with plans to add new data that can help users detect bad hardware, and further details when players pull up the full Steam overlay. At launch, the performance monitor is primarily intended for WIndows users with “the most common GPU hardware,” but Steam’s wording seems to indicate that it will be expanded for older and uncommon GPUs and non-Windows operating systems in the future. Valve is welcoming feedback on the feature, and thus far, users seem to be quite pleased with the addition.
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