What is FPS How to Measure and Increase, How Much Should It Be?

While playing games on computers, we can encounter many terms in terms of terms. While one of these terms, FPS (which stands for frames per second), can measure the performance of our devices, it occupies an important place especially in shooter or competitive game styles. As you can imagine, and as most of us know, reaching high frame-per-second values allows us to be one step ahead of our opponents in in-game competitions, while providing us with more fluency while playing the game.

High FPS values during the game on computers make the images displayed on the computer more fluent. This allows us to see the images displayed on the screen quite smoothly and fluently. For this reason, while FPS offers us better images, it also increases our success in games. While the FPS limit hosted a maximum 6 FPS screen frame rate in the first games released in the past, today this amount is presented to us with FPS values ​​over 300 FPS thanks to the developing technologies.

How to Measure FPS

We can measure FPS values with many different methods. While we can do the first of these with the options we can see in some games, we can also do it with programs and applications that can help in measuring external FPS. If you plan to download an application to measure the FPS value, you can use the FRAPS program. To do this process, the following steps can be followed:

·         First step: First, download and install the FRAPS program via your internet browser.

·         Second step: Open the FRAPS program immediately after installing the FRAPS program and click on the FPS option you can see at the top.

·         Third step: From the OC (Overlay Corner) area on the right side of the screen, determine where you want the FPS value you want to measure to appear on your screen.

·         Fourth step: Finally, select and save your OK key, which offers the option to turn the FPS indicator on and off in the Overlay Hotkey section.

After you follow these steps, when you enter any game, your FPS value will be seen in the area you specified in the third step.

 

How to Increase FPS? FPS Increasing Methods

Having high FPS values is undoubtedly an option that we all wanted. There are multiple ways to increase FPS values. Some of these ways are:

·         You can adjust the power settings on your computer to increase the FPS values.

·         You can update your video card drivers on your computer to increase the FPS values.

·         In order to increase the FPS values, if your computer is Windows, you can disable the visual effects that Windows offers.

·         In order to increase the FPS values, you can close various applications running in the background of your computer during the game by going to the task manager.

·         To increase the FPS values, you can lower the in-game graphics settings.

·         You can play the game full screen instead of half screen to increase the FPS values.

·         In order to increase the FPS values, you can replace the hardware and parts of your computer with a higher model.

·         You can consider optimizing and defragmenting drives to increase FPS values. With the options for optimizing and defragmenting the drivers, you can take the drivers to the next level that can help you increase the FPS on your computer.

·         You can try overclocking to increase the FPS values. Of course, it's good to be warned. During this process, you should be careful not to damage the parts of your computer.

What should be the ideal FPS in games?

The importance of FPS values during games is very important. Although 30 FPS values and below were considered sufficient in the games of the past, in today's games, 30 and above FPS values entered our lives with the developing hardware and software. While playing games at 30 and above FPS values, you will not experience any feeling of stuttering in the games. However, this may present rough images compared to higher FPS values. When the FPS values in the games start to fall below 30, you can see that the stuttering and roughness rates that may occur in the images gradually increase while playing the game.

If you want to have a completely fluent gameplay while playing the game, 60 FPS and above will provide it to you. As you can imagine, your game quality will increase exponentially at values between 60 FPS and 60 FPS, compared to values between 30 and 60 FPS. You can play games less smoothly and more fluently than before. In the meantime, we can see that the concept of screen refresh rate on your monitors, which is of great importance in terms of game quality, comes into play here. For example, if you have a refresh rate of over 60 Hz, it doesn't make much sense for your FPS values to see 300 because the maximum FPS value you can get on screens with 60 Hz screen refresh is 60 FPS. For this reason, you should also pay attention to the screen refresh rate, that is, the "Hz" rate that may take place on your computer. High FPS values are useful if you have 75, 120, 144 and higher Hz, that is, screen refresh rates.

Screen Tearing Issue in Case of High FPS:

Screen tearing occurs when your FPS value is higher than the monitor speed while playing games and causes the screen display to deteriorate. In order to prevent this situation, you should turn on the VSync feature in the games. Vertical sync, which is VSync, fixes the number of frames sent by your video card with the frame refresh rate of your monitor and eliminates the problem.