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A user-friendly guide to displaying your frame rate while gaming on your Mac
Monitor your frames per second (FPS) to assess your computer's gaming performance. For instance, if you're experiencing an extremely low FPS (such as 5), adjust the game's graphics settings or explore other options to enhance FPS. This Mytour resource explains how to check FPS during Mac gaming.
Essential Information
- Utilizing Steam for displaying FPS in Mac games is the most dependable approach for monitoring your framerate.
- Navigate to 'Steam > Preferences > In-Game > In-Game FPS Counter' and make your desired choice.
- Restart Steam and start your game to view the FPS.
Step-by-Step Guide
Open Steam. You can locate this application in your Finder's Applications folder.
- If you haven't installed the desktop app yet, you can get it for free from
https://store.steampowered.com/about/.
- You can utilize the In-game FPS counter in all Steam games, and sometimes in non-Steam games. If you've bought a game from elsewhere, you can add it to your Steam library, but the FPS counter may or may not appear.
Locate and Click on Steam. You'll find this at the top left corner of the app window.
- If you don't see a Steam window, you can right-click (or control-click) on the Steam icon in the top menu bar.
Find and Click on Preferences. You'll see this at the bottom of the menu.
Locate and Click on In-Game. You'll find this on the left side of the Preferences window.
Locate and Click on the drop-down under 'In-game FPS counter.' You'll find this in the middle of the window.
Choose the FPS display location. You have the option to show the FPS at the top left, top right, bottom left, or bottom right of your screen.
Click OK. The Preferences window will close.
Reboot Steam. Restart it to apply your changes.
Start a game via Steam. The FPS will now be visible in your chosen location.
Pointers
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Steam appears to be the most dependable choice. Although you can experiment with Count It for FPS tracking, it hasn't seen updates since 2020, is no longer under development, and might not function anymore.
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Certain games, like Rise of the Tomb Raider, feature a built-in benchmark tool that allows you to observe your highest, lowest, and average FPS under various conditions.
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Quartz Debug is effective for older Mac models (approximately from 2015), but it's incompatible with newer Macs due to differences in graphics and encoding.
