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Title: steam overlay performance monitor - issues

Jarmer 26 Feb 2026

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I'm having issues on my system (specs on the left) where the overlay performance monitor just simply doesn't work at all. Does anyone know how to fix this? No amount of changing any settings, toggling on / off, etc... seems to do anything. It just never shows up.

Last edited by Jarmer on 26 Feb 2026 at 4:46 pm UTC

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Xpander 7 days ago

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Wayland? Afaik the overlay doesn't work via xwayland or something.
So you either need to try proton GE with wayland directly or use x11.

edit: I might be wrong on thatone though as i dont use wayland myself but i remember reading about such thing in the past

Last edited by Xpander on 27 Feb 2026 at 7:40 am UTC

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DoctorJunglist 7 days ago

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The overlay works under xwayland, but it doesn't work If you enable native wayland in Proton. It also doesn't work with gamescope enabled, If you don't enable an additional tweak.

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Xpander 6 days ago

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Quoting: DoctorJunglistThe overlay works under xwayland, but it doesn't work If you enable native wayland in Proton. It also doesn't work with gamescope enabled, If you don't enable an additional tweak.

ohh ok, my brain had it wrong way then. thanks for clarifying

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Jarmer 2 hours ago

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hmmmm okay, well thank you for the info! I'm running wayland in gnome just in general on my os, but as far as steam goes, I really have no idea. Do all games run in xwayland that means? I haven't changed any settings off the default as far as that goes.

Since I posted this, the performance monitor actually DID turn itself back on for one gaming session, then after that it has failed to work ever since.

So it seems to sporadically work whenever it feels like it, and then gets tired and has to go have a nap and just quits working for a very long time.

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