How to Check My Frame Rate

Hello,

I see a lot of talk about frame rate speed here. I was curious to check mine but I don't know how. Please tell me.

Thank you.

Hi bargain,

Assuming you're running Windows, you can bring up the Debug menu with a CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D. After that, do a CTRL-SHIFT-1 to bring up the stats screen.

That worked great, thank you. It seems like some of this info should be easier to find even though this way got me the answer pretty quick..lol

My Sims FSP is at about 45 and my Physics FPS is at about 44, is that good? I watch them both as I walked then flew around. It just seems like things should be moving and loading faster?

oops, sorry, I missed the top of that stats window. It says my basic FPS is about 4 up to 8 or 9 peak. Now that sounds bad?

Well, framerates are 'one of those things'.

For the most part, your framerates sound pretty normal. There are several things you can do under Preferences (CTRL-P) to increase them, most notably, reducing draw distance.

There's also a great guide on the stats panel right here. It will probably tell you more than you want to know about client and simulator performance.

Once you understand the stats, you can tweak out your client to get better performance.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for that guide, Numa. I checked it, and I have a question:

On the personal frame rate (how well/quickly your computer is rendering what is on your screen), what accounts for the fluctuation I see in that? I see quite a bit.

coco

Hi Cocoanut,

Several things can account for a fluctuation in framerate. Usually it's because your graphics card is working hard to draw more complicated geometry.

For instance, if you're looking a single 10x10m wall, and then spin around to view a hollowed and cut torus, you can expect frames to drop. The torus is composed of many many more triangles than the wall and thus there's more stuff to render.

Also, you can see fluctuations during periods of high bandwidth usage. Bandwidth and video framerate seems to be locked to each other, so if your bandwidth spikes (like when an av rezzes near you), your framerates can drop.

Hope this helps.

Coco - when you're flying around, your frame rate changes depending on what you're looking at.

In a nutshell, some things take more work for your video card to "draw" than other stuff does.

Examples: Particles and Transparent Textures make your video card go thru more work, and may result in lower framerates.

This is why lowering your draw distance in preferences can increase your frame rate. Lower Draw Distance = Less Stuff for your Video Card to process = Higher Frame Rate.

Same thing goes for reducing/shutting off particles. Less work for your card.

Hope this helps!