Nowadays, if we become infatuated with a certain game to run on our computer, we only have to access one of the many online stores available. Perhaps the clearest example of all this is found in the veteran Steam where we have at our disposal a huge number of titles to choose from.
We only have to access the web version of the Valve store or download the corresponding client that we install on the PC. Obviously, in order to access that enormous amount of content available for purchase and download, we need a personal account on the platform. Both this program that we mentioned and the creation of the account are completely free.
In addition, it is interesting to know that we have many other similar alternatives and that they act as competitors to Steam. A clear example of all this can be found in the Epic Games Store , which has not stopped growing in recent times. If we focus on the aforementioned Steam, say that the most recommended thing is that we install that client on our computer to get the most out of the PC gaming platform . In this way, in addition to buying and downloading content, we will have many more functions at our fingertips.
A good part of these are in charge of allowing us to interact with the rest of the users and thus significantly improve the experience when playing. In the same way, this client that Valve offers us has a series of parameters and configurations that we can customize and that will possibly be very useful to us. An example is the function that we are going to show you to see the performance of games on Steam , all in real time.
Add an FPS counter for your games on Steam
As you can imagine, this is a feature that will greatly help us measure the performance of games running from this online service. Among many other things, all this will allow us to carry out tests to adapt that title to the capabilities of our computer depending on its demands. We will be able to test various configurations in the video game, measure the FPS in real time , and adapt it as best as possible to the performance of our computer.
Once we know all this, then we are going to talk about the easiest way to activate this functionality of Steam. It must be said that by default it is disabled. The first thing we do is open the client that we have mentioned, and if we have not already done so, we enter our account access credentials . Then, before running any game, we go to the Steam / Parameters menu option.
A window will appear on the screen in whose left panel we find the configuration categories that we can use here. The one that interests us in this specific case is the one called In the game , where we click. Now we can take a look at the options that appear on the right side, and we find a drop-down list that says FPS counter in the game . It is worth noting that here we find several options that will allow us to place the counter that we are interested in seeing in real time, in various places on the screen.
From that moment we already find this video game performance measurement tool when we run them from Steam.