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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Aaron Klotz

Measuring 'fake' frames — Steam beta in-game overlay now detects DLSS/FSR frame generation and reports both framegen and native frame rates

Steam Hardware Survey April 2022.

Valve is finally working on a full in-game overlay for Steam that provides significantly more information than just frames per second (fps). The June 17th Steam Client Beta introduced an upgraded overlay that monitors hardware usage and supports DLSS/FSR frame generation monitoring.

Valve's new overlay provides significantly more information than before — enough to compete with many third-party overlays. Valve's new overlay is also one of very few monitoring solutions that allows gamers to monitor both native frame rates and AI-generated frames, often referred to as 'fake frames,' simultaneously — a feature that will only become more useful as frame generation technologies become more mainstream.

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