Steam is upgrading its in-game frame rate counter to be a full overlay This will provide a lot more details on what's going on under the hood with any given game, and your CPU and GPU's status too ...

Steam Overlay The Steam Overlay is an in-game interface that lets you access various Steam features without exiting or minimizing your game.

Steam has released one of the biggest updates in recent years. The user interface has been extensively revised and some completely new features have also been added. Here's a look at all the changes.

Software Platforms Steam Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now ...

If Steam Overlay is not working in Windows 11/10, check these solutions that has worked for other using facing similar issue.

If you're playing your favorite game and you want to see how your computer is powering through it, we'll show you how to open the FPS counter in Steam.

The overlay is also home to arguably the most substantial user-facing feature: the ability to take notes inside the Steam overlay while playing a game.

Steam's new overlay features are incredibly handy, including a new cloud-based Notes tool, but limited to the beta for now.

Steam's Overlay Performance Monitor may be its best new feature in quite some time.

Steam overhauls notifications, UI elements and the in-game overlay Valve has turned on hardware acceleration for Mac and Linux users, too.