How to Show Steam's Built-in FPS Counter in PC Games

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Steam has a built-in feature that will display your frames per second (FPS) while playing PC games. It's quick to enable and works in almost any Steam game. Next, We tell you how to see your FPS in Steam games on Windows 10, Mac or Linux.

First, click on Steam> Settings in Steam.

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When it's over, click on “To accept” to save your settings and start a Steam game.

Note: If you press Alt + Tab to exit a game in progress and change this setting, you must close and reopen the game before it takes effect.

This is what the standard FPS counter looks like in the upper left corner of a game:

Standard gray Steam FPS counter in the upper left corner of a game.

In high contrast mode, the brightest FPS counter looks like this:

Steam's high contrast green FPS counter in the upper left corner of a game.

It's up to you whether you want a more noticeable and visible FPS counter or one that blends in better with the background until you look for it..


This is not the most powerful FPS counter compared to other tools, but it is simple and integrated. For more control, check out other in-game FPS monitoring tools.

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