Steam Client Beta Improves Video Performance, Adds FPS Counter

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Steam Client Beta Improves Video Performance, Adds FPS Counter

Valve has started the new year with a new Steam client beta for all supported platforms...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg3ODM

[darkbasic]

FPS counter? This is really awesome for testing nine vs catalyst for games which don't have any benchmark mode!

[M@GOid]

Big Picture

It do not work in Big Picture mode. But its okay in all the games I tested. The counter is very small, located in the left high position of the screen. The font is the same size as web fonts. Discrete but effective.

But is not a real time fps counter. It refreshes at 1Hz.

[pinguinpc]

Works in wine

But dont have any option for change font fps counter color and need change

Notifications.StackSize "3"

To this

Notifications.StackSize "0"

For prevent appears bottom right popups like as cdkey messages and others

[Xaero_Vincent]

The FPS counter is a nice new feature. Speaking of bug fixes, Slouken (Sam Lantinga) over at Valve recently fixed a bug that I reported a few beta releases ago. There was a bug that preventing In-Home Streaming from working on certain systems when hardware encoding is enabled on the server. Now it's working great for me:

[pinguinpc]

New steam beta update

General
Added user's choice of screen corner for FPS counter
Scaled FPS counter proportionally with screen resolution
Improved synchronization and smoothness of video playback