Welcome back, in today’s video I’ll be showing you how to display or show FPS in games on a Windows
11 PC or laptop. We have three different methods, and you can pick any of them, but they do all
have advantages and disadvantages. You can use the chapters to navigate to the method of your choice.
The first will be for all games in Windows 11, the second will be for games on Steam
and the third will be for all games, but it does require additional software and you only need to
choose this one if you want to see more details, such as minimum and average frames. Remember to
leave a like and feel free to subscribe if the video helps, let’s get into the methods.
The first method should work for all games in Windows 11 and it uses the built-in game bar
feature. Firstly, we need to turn on the game bar if it isn’t on already. To do this, go to
settings, then choose gaming from the options on the left and then choose Xbox game bar and make
sure it is turned on, on this page. Now you can press the keyboard shortcut of the Windows button
and the G key to open the game bar. In here, find the performance icon from the icons at the top
and click on it and it will add the performance window. You can now play about with this,
for example you can pin it to always show, move it around to the desired location and
you click on the options icon to add or remove the information it displays. Click on FPS and it won’t
show you it yet. This is because you need to click on request access so do this and then click on yes
on the user account control screen. You do now need to restart your PC for it to show the FPS,
so feel free to do that now and return to the video or you can just watch the other methods.
The next method to display FPS is through Steam. When you’re in a Steam game bring up the Steam
window by pressing the shift and tab key at the same time. In here, click on settings which
is at the bottom of the page. Now go to the in-game tab and find the FPS counter section.
Change the drop-down box from off to one of the positions on the screen for it to display
and feel free to turn on high contrast colour if you struggle to see it. That’s it for that method.
The third and final method requires us to download some software, it’s commonly used for viewing FPS
and it has a lot of different features. It will also show us the most detailed information about
the FPS. It’s up to you if you want to use it. The software is called MSI Afterburner,
and I’ll link the site it in the description. When the page loads, click on download Afterburner.
Choose a destination folder, the downloads folder is perfect and begin the download.
After it has finished downloading, open the folder and double click on the installer file.
Now choose yes on the user account control screen and the installer window should open.
Follow each page of the installer, all of the default settings should be fine,
but you must make sure that both boxes are checked when you get to this page as you need to install
them both. After the installation is complete, you may need to restart your PC for it to work.
Open Afterburner if it isn’t already open by searching for it and you’ll notice that the
dashboard probably looks a little different to mine. This is no issue as this is simply
a different design. Click on settings and then first go to the on-screen display tab.
In here, you can set up the hotkeys that will be used to bring up the FPS counter.
After choosing these, we now need to tell it what information we want to display.
To do this, go to the monitoring tab and scroll down in the box until you find framerate. With it
selected, check the box called show in on screen display. This is a little further down the page.
You can do these exact steps for other information such as average framerate or minimum framerate.
You may need to set up benchmark hotkeys in the benchmark tab if you choose certain info
to display. You can open Rivatuner by going to the icon tray in the taskbar and clicking on the
up arrow. Click on the monitor logo and there are more settings on this page. For example,
you can turn the FPS display on and off in here too as well as change the size and position of
it. There is so much to do within this software that it wouldn’t fit into the video so I’ll link a
helpful video in the description that will go into more detail in setting this up if you get stuck.
And so that is how to display or show FPS in games on a Windows 11 PC or laptop. Click the
card onscreen now to watch a video of mine showing you how to improve FPS in games in Windows 11.
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Thanks so much for watching and I will see you in another video!