13 Tips, Tricks And Secrets To Boost Your PC Gaming Performance

5. Monitor Your Framerates

Using MSI Afterburner, you can also monitor your framerate during game sessions. The most common way of measuring framerate is in 'frames per second' (fps), which tells you how many times the image moves in one second. The higher the framerate, the smoother the game runs. As with the previous tip, you can track your framerate using MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner. Once you've got both those things: Open Afterburner, click the Settings button (cog icon) > Monitoring tab Scroll down to Framerate in the table and click the tick next to it if it's greyed out Tick the Show in On-Screen Display box. Click the On-Screen Display tab, select a button to Toggle On-Screen Display, then click OK. Next time you run a game, make sure Afterburner is running in the background, then use the button you selected to toggle the on-screen display on. There's ongoing debate over how high a framerate is visible to the human eye. Many games on the Xbox One and the PS4 are capped at 30 frames per second, much to the smugness of PC gamers with rigs powerful enough to achieve framerates of 60, 100 or more. While there have been claims that the benefits of framerates over 60 fps are imperceptible, anyone who plays online shooters will tell you that clocking over 100 fps is crucial if you're really serious about your gaming. These PC gamers don't mess around!