FPS Counter?

B1ackEagle · Dec 30, 2014

Hi,

Can some one please tell me how I can monitor my frame rates, I've tried FRAPS with no luck.

Cody · Dec 30, 2014

Try Ctrl+f - I think that still does it.

B1ackEagle · Dec 30, 2014

Tried. Nope doesn't work.

Yaffle · Dec 30, 2014

Works here, have you assigned it to another function?

Check the bottom left of the screen.

B1ackEagle · Dec 30, 2014

Don't think I have assigned it to another function, just tried switching controls to standard keyboard and mouse with no joy. I'm using extended mode with DK2 by the way.

Yaffle · Dec 30, 2014

Ahh, may all be different then.

I'll leave it VR forum who have expertise on such matters.

B1ackEagle · Dec 30, 2014

Indeed!

Any experts in here who can help me out????

Spam · Dec 30, 2014

I use MSI Afterburner to log GPU performance. It comes bundled with RivaTuner which can be used to display current fps in the Rift.

Open Afterburner, right click graphs, select properties/Monitoring/Show In On Screen Display.
On the On Screen Display tab click the More button to go to Rivatuner and configure the coords to 300 x 300 (top left of screen) and select colour (use a primary, red/blue/green as chromatic abberation splits image into multiple colours for me).

Bingo. You can now see how bad your card is at maintaining 75 fos so start saving up for that new card :-]

hughJ · Dec 31, 2014

B1ackEagle said:
Indeed! Any experts in here who can help me out????

I had to pull my left eye cup off in order to see the ctrl+f frame counter - the counter looks to be added at the very end of the render pipe (after the lens compensation is done.)

Thorvald · Dec 31, 2014

No we don't have a proper in-game option right now. It's something we have been asking for but we are likely pretty low on the totem pole for things like this. A nice floating counter would be perfect, maybe simply blended into one of the dash displays or something.

Only current usable method is third party tools like afterburner etc.

El_Labero · Dec 31, 2014

ctrl+f works , but its in the lower left edge.

make a screenshot so you can check later^^

NumptyScrub · Dec 31, 2014

Thorvald said:
No we don't have a proper in-game option right now. It's something we have been asking for but we are likely pretty low on the totem pole for things like this. A nice floating counter would be perfect, maybe simply blended into one of the dash displays or something.

Only current usable method is third party tools like afterburner etc.

Not completely true, as mentioned Ctrl-F does add a framerate counter but it is placed right at the bottom left of the post-rendered image, so you can't see it using the Rift (it's physically outside the viewable area).

If you switch the rift to Direct Mode you can see it fine on the actual monitor, as that becomes a mirrored display

What I don't get is that doing it that way shows 37.5fps for some reason, I can only assume the calculations are trying to mitigate the fact it is rendering 2 eyes by halving the resultant framerate.