Measuring FPS in games is one way to find out how “good or bad” your PC is performing, and although this is only valid when it comes to games (since, for example, you may have an extremely powerful PC for other purposes, but FPS strongly depends on the graphics card), it is a dimension that is going to let us know if a game has adequate performance or not.
Easily measure FPS in games with this program
To be able to measure the FPS in any game, you will have to install software on your PC that allows you to do it, because although some games have an FPS counter natively, it is only valid for the one that has it. a and logically it does not work for everyone. For this reason, we will use MSI afterburner
The first thing to do is to download MSI Afterburner from its official website and install it. During the installation process, you will be offered to install RivaTuner Statistics Server, and you must select yes and install it as well (the installation process is as easy as pressing Next all the time in the assistant). Once both applications are installed, open MSI Afterburner and click on the Settings button, located at the bottom right.
In the window that opens, go to the “Monitoring” tab, and you will see a list with a large number of parameters. The one that interests us is the FPS, called “Frame rate”, but if you want to add more parameters to monitor (like temperature), you can do it from here.
What you need to do is select Frame Rate and check the box to the left of it. Once done, the options in the lower area will be activated, where you must ensure that “Show information on screen” is checked, as we have shown you in the screenshot above these lines. Once done, to the right of the name it should appear “in OSD”, confirming that it is correct.
Once done, click OK (you can now minimize the application if you wish) and open RivaTuner Statistics Server. Here you will need to enable the “Show On-Screen Display” option and make sure that the “On-Screen Display Support” option is also enabled. You can leave the rest of the options as default or as we configured them.
There is one more thing that you will surely want to configure, and that is the position on the screen in which the FPS will be shown to you in games. By default, it will appear in the upper left corner of the screen, but in the lower right area (the rectangle with numbers below) you can change its position. For example, we made it stick out 617 pixels to the right and 5 pixels down, so instead of the corner, it sticks out a bit more to the right, leaving room for other game elements.
As you can see, in the upper area we have all the parameters configured, including the FPS. And the best thing is that it works in any game, even if you’re not in full screen.
