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

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.

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

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.

Wanted to do a quick follow up question: what do you all use for simple fps monitoring in-game ??? I’m looking for something super dead simple and easy and that will work 100% of the time. The steam overlay just doesn’t do that lol.