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Glossary:Metal HUD

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What is it

Risk of Rain 2 game with Metal HUD enabled in the top-right corner
Risk of Rain 2 game with Metal HUD enabled in the top-right corner

Metal Performance HUD is a tool to display FPS and other stats in Mac games running on Metal.

Apple developer presentation

It helps to evaluate game performance and adds some valuable technical information to screenshots.


Enabling / disabling

The HUD is integrated in macOS[1].

Enabling Metal HUD[1]
  1. Launch Termianl.app
  2. Type: /bin/launchctl setenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED 1
  3. ↵ Enter
  4. Relaunch Crossover, Steam, game to apply
Disabling Metal HUD[1]
  1. Launch Termianl.app
  2. Type: /bin/launchctl unsetenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED
  3. ↵ Enter
  4. Relaunch Crossover, Steam, game to apply


References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Metal HUD enabler script
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