- Steam App
- fpsVR (908520)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 6 September 2025 - 11:54:49 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
The fpsVR BETA has been updated with the following changes: The CPU temperature poll is disabled for everyone by default. If you want fpsVR to display the CPU temperature, you will need to enable this functionality manually, go to the fpsVR settings (open the SteamVR dashboard and click on the blue fpsVR icon), on the "fpsVR" tab, go and click the "CPU Temperature Monitoring Status" button. But first read the following: Antivirus may blocks the driver launch (hardwareprovider.sys file / WingRing0 driver) with a warning that this driver is not safe. The fpsVR service uses the kernel-mode driver to poll the CPU to get information about the CPU temperature. fpsVR uses a fairly common and popular driver: "WinRing0". It is quite old and does have a vulnerability. fpsVR fixes the existing vulnerability in this driver by setting appropriate access rights to the driver immediately after launchin...