fps - how to divide count by time function to determine fps

Question

I have a counter working that counts every frame. what I want to do is divide this by time to determine the FPS of my program. But I\'m not sure how to perform operations on tim

Answer 1

• Here is a very simple way to print your program's frame rate at each frame (no counter needed) :

  import time
  
  while True:
      start_time = time.time() # start time of the loop
  
      ########################
      # your fancy code here #
      ########################
  
      print("FPS: ", 1.0 / (time.time() - start_time)) # FPS = 1 / time to process loop
  

• If you want the average frame rate over x seconds, you can do like so (counter needed) :

  import time
  
  start_time = time.time()
  x = 1 # displays the frame rate every 1 second
  counter = 0
  while True:
  
      ########################
      # your fancy code here #
      ########################
  
      counter+=1
      if (time.time() - start_time) > x :
          print("FPS: ", counter / (time.time() - start_time))
          counter = 0
          start_time = time.time()
  

Hope it helps!