Steam makes it easier to check your PC's performance in games. For Valve, this is just the beginning of similar changes

Valve is launching the first version of a new tool for Steam to measure performance in games. The first, as the company plans further improvements to the feature.

Jacob Blazewicz

Steam makes it easier to check your PC's performance in games. For Valve, this is just the beginning of similar changes, image source: Valve Corporation.
Steam makes it easier to check your PC's performance in games. For Valve, this is just the beginning of similar changes Source: Valve Corporation.

There's a new performance measuring tool available for all Steam users now.

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Valve sometimes delays adding new features to its digital distribution platform. Sometimes functions remain in beta testing for several weeks, other times for many months. This time, the "Valve time" clearly worked, because the next improvement reached all users less than two weeks after the start of testing.

We're talking about expanding options related to displaying data on how a player's hardware is coping with games. So far, you could only see the number of frames per second of the displayed animation. Now players can also check how many fps were generated using technologies like Nvidia's DLSS or AMD's FSR.

Furthermore, the new feature helps you find any temporary drops in animation smoothness (micro-stutters) and check the usage of your CPU, graphics card, and system memory. This will make it easier to find the cause of lower than expected computer performance in games.

However, if you prefer less info, Valve offers four levels of detail for displayed data - from a simple old-school view to a full display of all performance data in the game.

Steam makes it easier to check your PCs performance in games. For Valve, this is just the beginning of similar changes - picture #1
Source: Valve Corporation.

To access this feature, in the "Settings" of Steam, go to the "In-Game" tab and scroll down to the "Performance Monitor in Overlay" section. Here you can find settings related to this option, including the mentioned detail level selection and additional accessibility settings.

What's interesting, this is just the first step for Valve towards making it easier for players to understand the performance of their games and systems. In the future, the overlay will be enriched with additional information. It was emphasized that the current version may not display the full set of features for non-Windows systems and less popular graphics cards.

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Jacob Blazewicz

Author: Jacob Blazewicz

Graduated with a master's degree in Polish Studies from the University of Warsaw with a thesis dedicated to this very subject. Started his adventure with gamepressure.com in 2015, writing in the Newsroom and later also in the film and technology sections (also contributed to the Encyclopedia). Interested in video games (and not only video games) for years. He began with platform games and, to this day, remains a big fan of them (including Metroidvania). Also shows interest in card games (including paper), fighting games, soulslikes, and basically everything about games as such. Marvels at pixelated characters from games dating back to the time of the Game Boy (if not older).

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