The FPS counter in Windows 10's Xbox Game Bar.

Windows ten has a built-in FPS counter hidden in its trivial-known Xbox Game Bar. Despite its name, the Xbox Game Bar is a powerful full-screen overlay you can employ in PC games. Here'southward how to evidence your frames per second (FPS) in games.

This feature is part of the Game Bar. To open up it, press Windows+G. (If the Game Bar doesn't appear, head to Settings > Gaming > Xbox Game Bar and ensure that information technology's toggled to "On." You can also choose a custom keyboard shortcut for launching it from here.)

Look for the floating "Performance" widget in the Game Bar overlay.

The Performance widget showing a CPU usage graph in Windows 10's Xbox Game Bar.

If you don't see the floating Operation panel, click the menu push button on the bar at the top of your screen and click "Performance" to prove it.

Click menu > Performance.

Click the "FPS" pick in the floating Operation window. The get-go time that you click this option, you'll see a message saying that y'all demand expanded User Account Control admission to get FPS info almost PC games.

Click "Request Access" to go on. Yous'll be prompted to agree to a User Business relationship Command prompt.

Afterwards confirming the UAC prompt, you'll need to restart your PC to enable this feature. The FPS meter will not role until your reboot.

Click "FPS" and click "Request Access."

After restarting your PC, launch a PC game and open the Game Bar. The Performance widget volition show your frames per 2d (FPS) forth with your CPU, GPU, VRAM (video RAM), and RAM usage.

To see a graph of the FPS over fourth dimension, click the "FPS" category. You may need to hover your mouse cursor over the widget and click the right arrow (">") button to show the graph if the floating widget is in its small form.

To keep the FPS meter ever on-screen at all times, click the "Pin" icon at the pinnacle of the floating widget in the Game Bar interface. Now, even when you hide the Game Bar, it volition stay on your screen and e'er appear on tiptop of your gameplay until you unpin information technology.

Click the "Pin" button at the top of the Performance window.

You can reposition the floating window on your screen by dragging it around in the Game Bar overlay. You tin also choose its size.

Windows 10's FPS graph floating above a PC game.

To get rid of the floating Performance window, go back to the Game Bar overlay (Windows+G) and click the "Unpin" button. Information technology volition then but appear when yous pull upward the Game Bar overlay.

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