Display FPS when playing games on Windows 10/11

How to display FPS parameters when playing games using the Xbox Game Bar tool available on Windows 10, Windows 11.. !

When you want to monitor FPS, Clock, Temperature, etc. parameters when playing games on Windows operating system, 99% of you will immediately think of MSI Afterburner software, right?

It’s not a bad choice at all, a free, very light and extremely effective software developed by MSI.

But after this article, I think you will have a new choice if your computer is strong enough.

In this article I will share and guide you How to use Xbox Game Bar to display the parameters of CPU, GPU, RAM,… a feature available on Windows 10, Windows 11… okay!

How to display FPS, CPU, GPU.. on Windows?

Game Bar is a component built into Windows 10, and from update 1903 onwards, it has the ability to display hardware parameters such as FPS, CPU Usage…

Although it’s only in the BETA stage and doesn’t show full details, I think if you only need basic information, Game Bar is more than enough. I repeat that this feature is only available on Windows 10 Version 1903 and above.

To use this feature, you first need to check what version of Windows you have by looking at the section About in Windows Settings .

Perform:

+ Step 1: Open the RUN dialog box (press the key combination Windows + R ) => enter command line ms-settings:about => already ENTER to access the section About This.

Quick access: Open About

In the window About scroll down to find the section Windows Specification => and look part Versions . Additionally, you can refer to the article How to check current Windows version information (Version, Build..) for more ways.

+ Step 2: Next, we need to check whether your Windows operating system has Game Mode enabled or not. By default it is enabled but need to check to be sure.

Perform:

Open the Settings window by pressing the key combination Windows + I => then enter the keyword search box Game mode => Select Game Mode Settings => view Game Mode is enabled or not.

Quick access: Open Game Mode

If not yet (i.e. currently OFF ) then pull the switch to the right ( ON ) is done.

+ Step 3: Continue, you search with keywords Game Bar => choose Game Bar Settings => then pull the switch ON Always leave it on if not already activated.

+ Step 4: After checking the settings, open any game that you want to check the parameters of GPU, CPU,… when playing the game, here I take the game as an example. Tricky Tower okay!

When you open the game, there will be a notification bar Xbox Game Bar appears, you can click on it to open it.

If you can’t press it in time, use a key combination Windows + G to open Xbox Game Bar any time you want.

+ Step 5: Interface of Xbox Game Bar appears, click on the dash icon next to the clock on the navigation bar and then click on the line Performance (Beta) to open the window Display parameters FPS, CPU, GPU,…

It will help us display the above information without using MSi Afterburner.

Immediately, a small window displaying CPU, RAM, GPU, FPS information and a graph on the right appears.

You click on the icon GHIM as shown in the image to make this information appear on all screens, otherwise it will disappear when you click Windows + G close Xbox Game Bar.

I also don’t understand why my FPS part doesn’t work, probably because I haven’t played the game yet 🙂

In addition, you can also customize the interface, as well as add some parameters to this information display window by clicking on the settings icon next to the icon. GHIM . I will explain to you a few items in this installation section:

• Graph Posting: Display position of the chart, default right (Right).
• BackPlate Transparency: Window transparency Performance when you pin it to the screen.
• Accent Color: Color of text and graphs.
• METRICS: Is the statistical information including CPU, GPU, FPS, RAM, all are turned on by default and I think you don’t need to turn this off.

+ Step 6: After editing, pin the window up and use the key combination Windows + G to close the Xbox Game Bar and start the tracking process.

Note:
I would also like to note this to you Xbox Game Bar It consumes quite a bit of hardware, so for computers that are not too powerful (ie computers that do not have more than 8GB of ram, do not use SSD drives, do not have separate VGA), you should not use this, but use the software. MSi Afterburner will taste better now.

Conclusion

With just a few simple steps, you can monitor hardware parameters (FPS, CPU, RAM, GPU…) when playing games on Windows 10/11 without needing to install any 3rd party software, It’s so convenient, right?

However, I also emphasize one thing: if your computer is not too powerful, you should use it MSi Afterburner software would be better, because using Xbox Game Bar will more or less affect your experience.

Hope you will like this article. Wish you success!

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Collaborator: Nguyen Thanh Tung – Blogchiasekienthuc.com