How to: Display FPS, cpu/gpu/mem usage or temperatures in-game.

[bastardo 12]

This is a guide to showing info like fps, cpu/gpu/memory usage, temperatures and other stuff you might find useful in-game.

 

Example of final result, running around in elektro, you can customize what it shows:

 

 

If all you want to do is display fps, you only need to do steps 1-5 and you can skip step 2.

 

Since there is no way to show this info in game you need some third party software. I use afterburner and hwinfo, I think precision X has a similiar functionality as afterburner.

 

1. Download and install MSI afterburner here: http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

 

2. Download and install hwinfo here http://www.hwinfo.com/download.php (Only needed if you actually want display info like cpu/ram usage, additional temperatures and other nifty stuff)

 

3. Open MSI afterburner, click settings

 

 

4. Press monitoring tab and under "active monitoring graphs" press whatever you want to display in game(for example framerate(fps) and gpu usage) and scroll down and select "show on screen display" and press OK. Minimize(don't close) afterburner.

 

 

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5. You can bind a key to toggle the display if you want. Go to  "On screen display" tab and bind a suitable key.If you only want to display FPS then you can stop here.

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6. Run Hwinfo and press "Run" once you get into the program

 

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7. Your screen should now look something like this, press "Monitoring" then "Sensor status"

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8. Press "configure sensors"

 

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9. Select OSD(RTSS) tab select whatever value you want to display in-game, for example CPU usage, core # usage, cpu temperatures etc. Then select "show value in OSD" and "Show label in OSD". 

 

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10. If you are going to have several values displayed in-game from HWinfo then you can change the line and column for every value so they don't all end up on the same line, like this

 

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11. Always remember to run afterburner before you run hwinfo because it is afterburner that contains the software that shows your computer info in-game.

 

 Having these things activated might be useful if you want to optimize performance and see what is your bottleneck. For example some settings affect your CPU on low settings whereas they are almost entirely run by GPU on high settings and don't impact your CPU at all. This means that if your CPU is bottlenecking but your GPU is not having a setting like this at high instead of low would surprisingly provide aperformance boost. However since it's an alpha this game is very poorly optimized with very low CPU/GPU usage even when your fps is struggling(as seen in screenshot) . Once the game is optimized and finally released these tools might become more useful.

Edited April 18, 2014 by Bigbadasswolf

[enforcer1975 1111]

Not bad but is it really necessary to plaster the screen ith that much information?

[bastardo 12]

Not bad but is it really necessary to plaster the screen ith that much information?

No, not really, it was just used as an example. Most people will only use the display fps function. The other stuff is only useful if you want to find your bottleneck in the game and maximize performance and tinker with your graphics options a lot. For example, when it comes to shadow quality, if you keep it at normal it is run by your cpu but if you turn it to high/very high it doesn't affect cpu usage at all it is entirely run by GPU so if the CPU is your bottleneck(high cpu usage %) you would get more fps from having high shadow quality than if you kept it at normal.

Edited April 18, 2014 by Bigbadasswolf

[Tomo2000uk 33]

Not bad but is it really necessary to plaster the screen ith that much information?

 

What an arse hole you are.

 

Very good informative post

 

much appreciated.

Edited April 18, 2014 by Max Planck
Enough of you for today, have a little break.

[boneboys 7988]

Use spoilers please.

 

OP edited.

[zecele 211]

You know if you download the Beta version of MSI afterburner it now shows CPU usage so there is no need for hwinfo anymore.

[bastardo 12]

Use spoilers please.

 

OP edited.

No you kinda messed it up but  thanks for the feedback I have fixed it now so it should be alright.

 

 

You know if you download the Beta version of MSI afterburner it now shows CPU usage so there is no need for hwinfo anymore.

 

 

Didn't know that, will update once beta version goes live.

Edited April 18, 2014 by Bigbadasswolf

[boneboys 7988]

No you kinda messed it up but  thanks for the feedback I have fixed it now so it should be alright.

Was a fast and furious fix.

 

So much better now :thumbsup:

[DarkwaveDomina 1099]

I have used Afterburner for this purpose for a while, because it's nice to see exactly how much of your GPU(s) and CPU the game isn't using half the time. <_<

 

Edit: Included link to a pic of what I am talking about. And before anyone mentions that SLI is not supported in DayZ, I got and still get the same results on a single card.

Edited April 18, 2014 by DarkwaveDomina

[St. Jimmy 1631]

I always monitor my fps; GPU usage, temp, VRAM used; CPU usage, separate core usages, temp and RAM used. Easy to know then what's the problem and what settings need to be lowered to get smoother experience.

 

You know if you download the Beta version of MSI afterburner it now shows CPU usage so there is no need for hwinfo anymore.

Need to test out when I get home.

[bastardo 12]

I have used Afterburner for this purpose for a while, because it's nice to see exactly how much of your GPU(s) and CPU the game isn't using half the time. <_<

Edit: Included link to a pic of what I am talking about. And before anyone mentions that SLI is not supported in DayZ, I got and still get the same results on a single card.

Yeah i know what you mean sometimes my fps hovers around 20 in big cities but i still only get 20-30% gpu and 50% cpu usage. I actually get higher gpu usage in the menus than I do in game in elektro which I find kinda funny(although I don't run max settings in-game)

Edited April 18, 2014 by Bigbadasswolf

[Dawgstyl 51]

There are also windows gadgets that so the same thing(less the FPS)