How to track FPS in games?

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Hitman

What game are you talking about specifically.

COD4, Ghost Recon: Advanced Wars and Halo.
Have you tried FRAPS on any of these games?

[screwballl]

I have always used FRAPS as well

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Parker

COD4, Ghost Recon: Advanced Wars and Halo.
Have you tried FRAPS on any of these games?

No I do not use FRAPS, I use in game console commands. They are all different for every game.

COD4
while in the game bring down the console by pressing the ~ (Tilda key)

Type /cg_drawfps 1 (0=off 1=on)

Ghost Recon
In order to activate a console command, open the console by pressing the Enter key on the numeric keypad, then type the command, then press Esc to quit the console.

Command
showframecounter

Ghost Recon console codes

Halo
The following are valid command lines switches that can be placed after the game executable halo.exe

-console (Enables the debugging console)

To bring down the console press the ~ key,

rasterizer_stats 2

Each setting for rasterizer_stats displays the following:

0 - This disables the display of the rasterizer stats.

1 - Unsupported

2- This is the most useful output option for rasterizer_stats. This setting displays a frame rate counter as well as categorized vertice and triangle counts for the scene being rendered. Additional information such as the number of dynamic lights, lens flares, decals and shadows are also displayed.

3- Unsupported, used for Xbox version of Halo.

4- Displays information on memory usage for the game.

5 - Simple frame rate counter and information such as maximum, minimum and average frame rates for the scene.

NOTE: Hitting the CTRL-F12 key combination will bring up a frame rate counter and graph.

Console Command List

Hope this helps.

[Parker]

Wow thanks Hitman!
I'll definitely try those!

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Parker

Wow thanks Hitman!
I'll definitely try those!

Here is a screenshot of COD 4 with the /cg_drawfps 3 enabled

[Quakindude]

Damnit Joe. Why did ya post that screenie? My gaming rig is down right now and I can't play.

[Hitman]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Damnit Joe. Why did ya post that screenie? My gaming rig is down right now and I can't play.

Sorry dude, just helping the kid out, need me to ship you a stand it rig?

OK, here is a SS of enabling showfps

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Damnit Joe. Why did ya post that screenie? My gaming rig is down right now and I can't play.

Lol, I can already here you screeming "EVGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want my board!".....


Thanks Joe for all the help!