Common gaming performance mistakes that cause FPS drops—and simple fixes to boost FPS on your PC for smoother, more responsive gameplay. Pixabay, Pexels For gamers who play first-person shooters (FPS) ...

The Frame Time Graph is a measurement of the amount of time it takes for a single frame to be rendered on screen. You can access it in most frame rate counters — like MSI Afterburner — but there are ...

Hyper-competitive shooters are in a league of their own on PC. Valorant builds on the solid foundation Counter-Strike established decades ago but incorporates some hero-shooter elements to add even ...

Few FPS roguelikes offer the unique gameplay experience seen in titles like Heavy Bullets. Sentry combines FPS and tower-defense elements to create a frenetic gameplay loop. Gunfire Reborn offers a ...

Where to begin with Straftat, a hot off the presses multiplayer shooter that immediately stole the hearts of PC Gamer's FPS-likers? I feel like the highest compliment I can give is that it immediately ...

Jesse Lennox has been a games journalist for nearly a decade. He has written for various outlets doing reviews, news, previews, op-eds, guides, and more. He's engrossed himself in the gaming landscape ...

When gaming on your Windows PC, having a smooth and responsive experience is crucial. One of the key indicators of a game's performance is frames per second (FPS), which indicates how many frames your ...

Callum is a seasoned gaming managing editor for a number of publications and a gamer who will always try to shine a spotlight on indie games before giving AAA titles the time of day. He loves nothing ...

When it comes to the ideal gaming experience, having a high rate of frames per second (FPS) is paramount. A high FPS is the key to smooth, seamless gameplay, and it’s the best way to experience ...

Realism is a difficult thing to achieve in videogames. In some cases, it means painstaking resource and status-effect management, with survival hits like Sons of the Forest impressing on you the 'real ...

Take the latest iPhone, hold it horizontally, turn on the video camera on default settings, and have your friends act out a scene. When you replay that video, something about it doesn't have that ...

I'm so conflicted about FPS games and new shooters right now. On the one side, we have Counter-Strike 2 and Call of Duty, which are simple, swift, and largely committed to the basic joy of online ...