Being able to see your actual performance versus your framegen performance is actually pretty cool.
Steam Introduces In-Game Performance Monitor
Submitted 8 months ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/500576552635859540
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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Neat!
Lojcs@piefed.social 8 months ago
Im not sure I like the cpu utilization being based on the base clock. A percentage that can go arbitrarily above 100 doesn't sound useful for determining bottlenecks. It must be difficult to accurately determine given all the dynamic boost stuff but since all other such utilities figured it out surely they can too. Hope they don't just leave this is as good enough.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I hope it doesn’t impact my game performance 🤔
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
Presumably it requires the Steam Overlay, which does have a slight impact on performance. Though, unless something is really wrong, you’re not going to notice the incredibly small loss of 1fps.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
Imma just stick to MangoHud cause it works with Games Outside of Steam.
addie@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Also, MangoHud has an ability to set
fps_limitin a per-game way that generally results in much smoother frame-pacing than most games achieve by default. That’s awesome for eg. Dark Souls / Elden Ring, which are stuttery at 60 fps but buttery at 59 for some reason, but also for random strategy games which would be just fine at 30 fps but instead have all the fans roaring to render at 144.Mwa@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
Oh thank you, But most games have a fps limit right? And I have VRR on my monitor.
FishFace@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Steam already has an FPS monitor, right? I think that’s enough for 95% of everything (and it’s very unobtrusive).
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I like the info on my steam deck when emulating.
Very nice to have *and you have the option to still only use the fps counter)
Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
This is my in game performance monitor.
Does it feel smooth? Yep! Keep playing.
CatherineLily@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I’ve been using game bar but I guess this might be less obtrusive?
duchess@feddit.org 8 months ago
Now I can stare nervously at the fps for 70% of my game time, like I do on the Deck.
alaphic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man… This right here is a huge part of why I decided to try going back to consoles after being a PC only gamer for like 20+ years
tomi000@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wow, so many people dont understand what youre saying^^
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You chose a spectacularly bad time to switch to concoles.
BroccoLemuria@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why not just cover your eyes?
olafurp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why not just, not turn it on?
lobut@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I think I understand your overall sentiment. Just wanna boot up games and not think about settings, compatibility, framerates and stuff. I know what you mean.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Congrats on the downgrade
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why not just ignore it
Kelo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why not just… not look at it?
cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 8 months ago
why not just… disable it?
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why not just… not turn it on?
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Seems convenient, I never really felt assed to install and set up additional tools but this being built into the Steam client would make this kind of thing more likely for me to use.
That being said 95% of my games are going to tell me to upgrade my RTX 2050…
Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 months ago
I wonder if this will let me see if framegen is being used in games that don’t have an explicit option to turn it on or off… 🤔
anon232@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
If you use AMD, the performance overlay on windows shows whether framegen is active or not.