In the upper right hand corner of my display, I see printed in fairly
large white letters

FPS N/A | GPU x% | CPU y% | LAT N/A

where x and y are numbers. If I open an application, say a browser,
that line is displayed on it too. How do I turn this off? I believe I
must have accidentally clicked on something in a display management app
but cannot find it. Hardware on machine includes an MSI motherboard,
Nvidia graphics card, Lian Li cooler, and a BenQ DesignVue PD2706U 27"
4K HDR Designer Monitor. The software for these components has been
downloaded and installed and Photo Shop is on the machine. Any ideas
what is displaying the unwanted information or how to determine and turn
off?

This happened once before and I solved the problem then but cannot
remember how. Old age I guess.
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Jeff Barnett


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Jeff Barnett wrote on 1/21/2026 11:51 AM:

In the upper right hand corner of my display, I see printed in fairly
large white letters

ÿÿÿÿÿ FPS N/A | GPU x% | CPU y% | LAT N/A

where x and y areÿ numbers. If I open an application, say a browser, that line is displayed on it too. How do I turn this off? I believe I must
have accidentally clicked on something in a display management app but cannot find it. Hardware on machine includes an MSI motherboard, Nvidia graphics card, Lian Li cooler, and a BenQ DesignVue PD2706U 27" 4K HDR Designer Monitor. The software for these components has been downloaded
and installed and Photo Shop is on the machine. Any ideas what is
displaying the unwanted information or how to determine and turn off?

This happened once before and I solved the problem then but cannot
remember how. Old age I guess.

This same Q came up elsewhere(online web Windows help forum), though
quite some time ago

Check the settings in Nvidia's GeForce Experience or it's replacement the unified Nvidia app. For the former, Nvidia ceased support(i.e. it's been *deprecated*<g>)...iirc it's not removed but depending on the version it
may have an option(or prompt) to install the replacement which also stops
the older from working.

Look for settings similar to Overlay, HUD, Performance.

Could also be MSI related...look for the Afterburner settings which
provides onscreen metrics.


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On 1/21/2026 11:51 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

In the upper right hand corner of my display, I see printed in fairly
large white letters

ÿÿÿÿÿ FPS N/A | GPU x% | CPU y% | LAT N/A

where x and y areÿ numbers. If I open an application, say a browser,
that line is displayed on it too. How do I turn this off? I believe I
must have accidentally clicked on something in a display management app
but cannot find it. Hardware on machine includes an MSI motherboard,
Nvidia graphics card, Lian Li cooler, and a BenQ DesignVue PD2706U 27"
4K HDR Designer Monitor. The software for these components has been downloaded and installed and Photo Shop is on the machine. Any ideas
what is displaying the unwanted information or how to determine and turn off?

This happened once before and I solved the problem then but cannot
remember how. Old age I guess.

Thank you Andy and Winston for your prompt replies. I found the setting
buried in a weird place attached to the NVIDIA app. I'm pretty certain
that this is a different place than I discovered it the last time. My
only remaining question is how in the hell did I (recently) stumble on
this location to turn this mess on. I wonder if some update was doing gratuitous things.
--
Jeff Barnett



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On Wed, 1/21/2026 4:44 PM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

On 1/21/2026 11:51 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

In the upper right hand corner of my display, I see printed in fairly large white letters

ÿÿÿÿÿÿ FPS N/A | GPU x% | CPU y% | LAT N/A

where x and y areÿ numbers. If I open an application, say a browser, that line is displayed on it too. How do I turn this off? I believe I must have accidentally clicked on something in a display management app but cannot find it. Hardware on machine includes an MSI motherboard, Nvidia graphics card, Lian Li cooler, and a BenQ DesignVue PD2706U 27" 4K HDR Designer Monitor. The software for these components has been downloaded and installed and Photo Shop is on the machine. Any ideas what is displaying the unwanted information or how to determine and turn off?

This happened once before and I solved the problem then but cannot remember how. Old age I guess.

Thank you Andy and Winston for your prompt replies. I found the setting buried in a weird place attached to the NVIDIA app. I'm pretty certain that this is a different place than I discovered it the last time. My only remaining question is how in the hell did I (recently) stumble on this location to turn this mess on. I wonder if some update was doing gratuitous things.

https://i.pcmag.com/imagery/articles/03821j291ihhHDILBFPT3BV-5..v1569470579.png?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjx366szp2SAxXww_ACHe_-OpYQ_B16BAgFEAI

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-see-your-frames-per-second-fps-in-games?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=B

"Press Alt+Z to launch the overlay"

Paul

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Jeff Barnett wrote on 1/21/2026 2:44 PM:

On 1/21/2026 11:51 AM, Jeff Barnett wrote:

In the upper right hand corner of my display, I see printed in fairly
large white letters

ÿÿÿÿÿÿ FPS N/A | GPU x% | CPU y% | LAT N/A

where x and y areÿ numbers. If I open an application, say a browser,
that line is displayed on it too. How do I turn this off? I believe I
must have accidentally clicked on something in a display management app
but cannot find it. Hardware on machine includes an MSI motherboard,
Nvidia graphics card, Lian Li cooler, and a BenQ DesignVue PD2706U 27"
4K HDR Designer Monitor. The software for these components has been
downloaded and installed and Photo Shop is on the machine. Any ideas
what is displaying the unwanted information or how to determine and
turn off?

This happened once before and I solved the problem then but cannot
remember how. Old age I guess.

Thank you Andy and Winston for your prompt replies. I found the setting buried in a weird place attached to the NVIDIA app. I'm pretty certain
that this is a different place than I discovered it the last time. My
only remaining question is how in the hell did I (recently) stumble on
this location to turn this mess on. I wonder if some update was doing gratuitous things.

You're welcome.
If found in the Nvidia app, it's possible, in the past, that your
previous encounter was in the earlier app(Geforce Experience settings)
now replaced by the current Nvidia app.
- i.e. different apps, different feature location setting.

Also possible that the newer app when installed(or replacing older by an update to old) enables(by default) the displaying of those 'performance' stats.

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