Any videos that you see on the screen appear in the form of series of images. The number of images that appear per second is called Frames per second. FPS decides the smoothness of a video playback. You might notice choppy and laggy effects while playing a game that indicates the sudden drops in the FPS.
There are many reasons possible what could lead to the drop in the FPS and that include the outdated graphics, card driver, hard drive issues, GPU overheating and etc. The motive of this article is to provide you the steps how to show FPS in games on Windows 10.
Methods to see FPS in games on Windows 10
FPS tells about the performance of games on your PC. If the FPS of a particular game is high, you will enjoy the smoothness of the game. A drop in the FPS results in choppy or laggy gameplay. There could be other reasons what causes choppy gameplay.
There are various methods how to show FPS in games on Windows 10. You should do that so that you can keep an eye on the frames per second in your game that would help you in finding the sluggishness caused due to FTS drop or another reason. Here are the different methods to do that:
Method 1: FPS Counter – Windows 10 game bar
Windows 10 comes up with a built-in FPS counter. Here is how you can pin the FPS counter to the screen and use it to monitor the frame rate:
- Run the game,
- Click on Win + G keyboard shortcut that opens Windows 10 game bar,
- Now, enable the Performance Widget,
- Click on the FPS tab and move the widget to the corner,
- Click on the pin icon to pin it and the FPS for the game will be shown live.
Method 2: Display FPS in games using NVIDIA GeForce Experience
See if your system hardware supports NVIDIA ShadowPlay. If yes, you can the NVIDIA GeForce Experience to turn on the FPS counter in games. NVIDIA ShadowPlay allows you to record, stream and share your gameplay with your friends. Here are the complete guide how you can enable FPS counter in games using NVIDIA GeForce Experience:
- Launch NVIDIA GeForce Experience,
- Click on the gear icon on the top right to open its settings,
- Enable In-game Overlay and go to the Overlay Settings,
- Now, under IN-GAME OVERLAY section, click on Settings button,
- Go to HUD Layout and then click Performance,
- Click on the FPS option.
Method 3: Show FPS in games using third party software
There is no shortage of third party apps that can add the FPS counter on window. FRAPS is very popular FPS counter software. Apart from this, you can look for Steam in-game overlay, MSI Afterburner and any other third party software that allow you to show FPS in games.
Conclusion
That is all about how to show FPS in games on Windows 10. Look there is a long list of apps that you can use depends on your choice. We have provided a few. Also, there are different games that come with their own built-in FPS counter. You can enable this FPS counter in their game settings.
