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

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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