Without going too much into the technical details of what’s happening behind the screens, let’s then look at simple techniques on how to increase FPS.
When the GPU can’t keep up with the FPS, you start to notice a lag. This connects to what you’ve read a few paragraphs ago, about unplayable games. You might already have intuited that more frames per second would mean more work for your system. How to increase FPS is a natural follow-up question, and what makes for a good level of FPS are factors such as your monitor/display, hardware (such as graphics card and drivers), and other techniques such as optimizing your PC by overclocking it. Simply put, high FPS translates to smoother gameplay. Since any video is essentially just still visuals rapidly displaying one after another (which is how the very nature of vision can be described as well), it means that your FPS settings would be to blame if you find your game unplayable.
Most people who’ve been on the Internet a while will have at least heard of the term FPS, if not directly dealt with it while playing PC games or doing anything to do with videos.įPS simply means Frames Per Seconds and it determines the fluidity of the motion of visuals and how aesthetically connected your game feels and looks.