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FPS Monitor – hardware in-game & desktop overlays
FPS Monitor tracks your PC's hardware state and displays this information as an overlay in-game or over desktop. Does not require configuration, it works immediately after installation.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“FPS Monitor has been one of the easiest and most reliable performance tools I’ve ever used. The overlay is clean, customizable, and gives me exactly the info I want without any clutter. Setup takes almost no effort, and everything just works the way it should. Whether I’m…”
— a player, Steam review · 55 hrs played“Using TimeSpy and FPS, saved my Laptop ! Incorrect Graphics settings not only lowers your Frames Per Second, it also runs your system Hotter, your FANS pushing all that heat out of your system, wasting Electricity & wasting money... TimeSpy helped me Optimize all graphics…”
— a player, Steam review · 19 hrs played“using frame gen with this software makes a lot of games crash. the dev promised a big update to fix this more than a year ago but the app seems dead.”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:08 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
🖱️VisiMouse - our new project: level up your cursor system-wide and in games
📊 Greetings, FPS Monitor community!You’re used to keeping performance under total control. Now it’s time to take control of every pixel of your cursor as well. Introducing VisiMouse - our brand-new ap
🤫 Get Early Access: secret Playtest of our app
👋 Hello, everyone! 🔑 We’re giving out a limited number of keys to our new gaming-adjacent tool (not released yet). Do you want a chance to get such a key? Put a reaction 🎲 under the announcement post
🎄 Preparing monitors for the New Year! Results and a touch of magic.
Friends, the FPS Monitor team is stringing up the lights and getting ready to send this year into history! 📅🎉2025 was a hot year: you broke records, and we worked hard to ensure the numbers in the cor
❄️ Final discounts of the year! Enhance your gaming experience!
Hello friends! Winter is in full swing, and so is our final sale of the year!Until January 5th, you can grab our programs at fantastic discounts. It's the perfect chance to upgrade your gaming experie
🔎 Announcement of our new utility, X-Magnifier
Hello, everyone! 🔎 While working on a major update for FPS Monitor, we came up with a new program that you might like :)It's called X-Magnifier — an improved version of the built-in Windows screen mag
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Utilities, Video Production, Web Publishing, Game Development |
| Player tags | Utilities · Game Development · Video Production · Web Publishing · Software · FPS (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Languages | English, Italian, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Thai |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://fpsmon.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Intel/AMD/NVidia graphics card DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 15 MB available space Additional Notes: Administrator rights to run software are mandatory.