Hardware overlay

FPS and sensor readings, power history, display modes and placement shortcuts.

The hardware overlay is a separate Windows overlay window showing available sensor readings and FPS. It does not inject code into the game.

Illustrative sensor readouts and power history with example values. The actual layout depends on the selected overlay mode.

Enable the overlay

Use Advanced → Hardware overlay → On-screen hardware monitor, the tray menu or Quick Panel. Only while gaming uses foreground-process frame activity and excludes known desktop apps; it does not simply test whether a window is full-screen.

Readouts and display modes

The Light, Default, Full and Complete modes show different combinations of FPS, CPU/GPU temperature, fans, power, usage, memory and battery information. FPS comes from Windows graphics events for the foreground process. Sensor availability and permissions affect the readings.

Power history

Modes that include the chart show roughly sixty seconds of CPU and GPU power samples. Use it to see changes over time. Power alone does not identify a bottleneck or prove thermal throttling.

Move, resize and change mode

Hold Ctrl + Shift + Alt while interacting with the overlay:

• Drag: move it.
• Click: cycle Light, Default, Full and Complete.
• Mouse wheel: change its scale.
• Middle-click: reset scale to 100%.

Placement, scale and mode are saved. Advanced exposes the enable and gaming-only switches; it does not have an editor for every individual overlay readout.

Telemetry activity

The overlay samples hardware while enabled and uses a separate frame-event monitor for FPS. Its impact depends on the system and workload. Disable it when you do not need the readings.