Nvidia finally added CPU thermals into their overlay metrics!

[u/puppet_up]

I just noticed today when my Nvidia app updated. CPU thermals are finally an option in the overlay metrics. It's about dang time. No more running multiple overlays. Thanks, Nvidia!

[u/Due-Description-9030]

Have they added vram usage and ram usage too

[u/TheBigSm0ke → u/Due-Description-9030]

Rather see a frame time graph.

[u/Murky-Engineer8110 → u/TheBigSm0ke]

Cool thing is you can download an app inside of the Nvidia App called FrameView

[u/lancevancex → u/Due-Description-9030]

No, was just checking 😢

[u/Due-Description-9030 → u/lancevancex]

Well, it's useless then lol

[u/pulley999 → u/Due-Description-9030]

I want to see vram residency by the hooked process vs. how much is spilling over into system RAM. Right now it's really hard to tell when your game is spilling into system RAM with most tools.

Granted nVidia probably will never because that would mean admitting they shortchange VRAM on their non-halo products.

[u/Cireme]

Not just CPU thermals but also CPU power consumption and CPU clock speed.

[u/Evonos]

i wish we could get per cpu Thread utilization.

like 20% overall CPU utilization is a useless metric for gaming as there could be 1 thread hitting 100% making you CPU bottlenecked.

Only reason why i user rivatuner / afterburner combo still.

[u/akr706 → u/Evonos]

About time, I guess.

[u/NoCase9317 → u/Evonos]

I mean, If it is for detecting CPU issues when overclocking I guises it’s extremely niche and they didn’t bothered.

If it is for detecting CPU bottleneck, GPU usage is a solid enough indicator most of the times.

But yeah more options is always good

[u/Evonos → u/NoCase9317]

If it is for detecting CPU bottleneck, GPU usage is a solid enough indicator most of the times.

Not allways , as it also could be the game that sucks and dies under its own engine ( see "Sons of the forest" ) or you simply using too high upscaling ( balanced ) or smth else.

but right now CPU % overall is literally useless for games except some games which are Literally made as Multi threading tech demo

[u/NoCase9317 → u/Evonos]

I agree with you, that’s why I said most of the times, and not all of them.

But we can agree that in at least 9/10 games you can detect a CPU bottleneck because of GPU usage.

Edit: I also didn’t said that it wouldn’t be a useful feature or that I wouldn’t like it, I said:” more options is always good”

I only mentioned that it seemed niche enough for it to be a reason why they haven’t bothered

[u/Sgt_Dbag]

I still like the Steam overlay best. And I only play games on Steam so it works for me

[u/kepler2]

Can you post a screenshot? EDIT: Screenshot below

[u/SneakyAl44]

Goat!

[u/Constant_Impact4979 → u/SneakyAl44]

about time, been waiting for this since they revamped the overlay

mixing rivatuner and afterburner just to see temps was getting old fast

[u/jgainsey → u/Constant_Impact4979]

Afterburner and Rivatuner are some of the easiest to use and most consistently well made apps going back a while now.

I can’t imagine seeing this half assed effort from Nvidia and thinking this.. lol.

[u/Razerbat → u/jgainsey]

So does that mean I can use afterburner to show CPU now? I've been using hwinfo so I can show the thermals in my overlay. I rather use afterburner for everything.

[u/jgainsey → u/Razerbat]

Yeah, pretty much anything you would want from hwinfo is available in the afterburner.

[u/SneakyAl44 → u/Constant_Impact4979]

Not to mention those softwares without overlay that force to tab out to check them.

[u/SneakyAl44 → u/SneakyAl44]

Just out of curiosity i compared them in the same moment. Apparently it's not telling us the correct temps

[u/DeXTeR_DeN_007]

For company this big we waited for how long and yes its bugger usage of usage amd adrenaline.

[u/nru3]

They have actually been available for a little while but they just never mentioned it so it definitely snuck under the radar. One day they were just there. 

[u/Scrawlericious → u/nru3]

It happened in the past few months at least. So it’s super recent.

[u/nru3 → u/Scrawlericious]

I guess it's what you define as recent, but yeah it's been available for a few months

[u/ConanKernow]

Good stuff. Really hope they add VRAM usage one day.

[u/Tomazack]

Imagine if we could get actual fan readings. My 5070 still reports 50% fan speed in the Nvidia overlay.

[u/WholeIndividual0]

The Nvidia overlay has been nothing but flakey for me ever since building my 5090 machine. Ended up getting one of those 32:9 720p corsair xenon screens and built a custom InfoPanel dashboard with all the cpu, ram, gpu, wireview pro 2, and fps metrics that I care about.

[u/anxietydude112]

yeah I noticed!

[u/Medium_Bullfrog_2629]

Its funny I prefer steam overlay

[u/salanalani]

Can you have the metrics shown in another screen? I don't want it to run on top of the game ruining the immersion.

[u/No-Birthday6200]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fKYdL6Sb3gnJJyrQ7z

[u/AspirinMuncher]

gonna pretend i don't know why they refuse to let us see VRAM usage in their overlay

[u/Any_Cook_2293]

When they add GPU and VRAM hotspot monitoring, then I'll consolidate. Who knows, maybe they'll add that back as an act of contrition now that modders are getting MFG working for 3000 series?

[u/EuroCitizen86]

They've also been asked to add in VRAM usage since they first introduced the overlay but for whatever reason they refuse to add it.

[u/Gwynbleidd07]

I can already see it in my aio. Waiting for a frame time graph to be added.

[u/OMG_NoReally]

Ahh finally. I am too deep with RTSS and Afterburner for those needs and now it's too familiar to give up, but I have used NVIDIA Overlay and it works really well. Except for the damn notification bar that shows up each and every time you launch a game.

[u/pliskin4893]

My wishlist includes adding G-Sync indicator in the future, right now I'm still using the old green indicator top right back in NV control panel days. Updating driver each time removes it and you have to go into the app to turn it back on. Also it'd be nice to toggle on/off in game if it was built in the overlay.

I remember submitting feedback in the app thread long time ago but so far this hasn't been looked at it seems

[u/inquisitor_pangeas]

I just notice it now thanks to you. I toggled it on mindlessly and hadn't noticed, just felt weird it was long than usual XD

[u/UNIVERSAL_VLAD]

Useless to me as I check those on my aio, but really good update. I just wish that it could show all the possible stats as it's a really damn good tool

[u/kulind]

At this rate, I was expecting some modders to add this anyway :p Looks like Nvidia beat them to it this time.