Measure FPS of the game

Question

I'd like to find an analogue of Fraps or any other fps counter on Ubuntu 12.10.

After some googling I found 2 solutions:

To use Mumble (I found it from this discussion). This solution didn't work for me because after launching the game:
```
mumble-overlay game
```
I got this error:
```
game: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/mumble/libmumble.so.1: undefined symbol: glPopClientAttrib
```
And I didn't find any fix of this error in the WEB.
To use WINEDEBUG=fps with osd_cat. It works only with wine (only Windows games). Found from reading this discussion and this article. It shows FPS during play but the output is definitely wrong - 0.15-0.18 fps. And it doesn't matter if game really runs slow or fast - the result is always the same.

Does anyone know how to fix these errors? Or are there any other solutions? Thanks for the help.

You probably need something like glc, as I discuss in this question. — , Jan 21 '13 at 16:06
The question I linked to wasn't about fraps, it was about alternatives to fraps, i.e. glc, as I mentioned in my answer on that question. — , Jan 21 '13 at 16:17
@Mik Actually I need fps counter and it seems that glc doesn't have such feature. — ArtemStorozhuk, Jan 21 '13 at 16:18
I'm way too lazy to go and test this myself, but I am almost certain that KDE has a plugin for measuring FPS. If you want to install KDE without breaking things you can run apt-get install --install-recommends=false --install-suggests=false kubuntu-desktop. Installing multiple desktop environments though could be risky and again I'm not certain so you should research before you try. — iridian, Jan 27 '13 at 22:32
My guess is that your .xx FPS is related to architecture problems and become a bug report — RobotHumans, Feb 03 '13 at 19:35
You could always go oldschool and write a program that check if a set of pixels has changed, writes the time in micros to a file, and then later check the file for differences in time. — haneefmubarak, Aug 04 '13 at 21:53

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '13 at 01:38

You can use BuGLE:

$ BUGLE_CHAIN=showfps LD_PRELOAD=/home/sa/Temp/bugle/lib/libbugle.so glxgears

$ cat bugle.log 
[INFO] logstats.frames per second: 36.2 fps
[INFO] logstats.frames per second: 60.1 fps
[INFO] logstats.frames per second: 60.0 fps
[INFO] logstats.frames per second: 59.9 fps
[...]

$ awk '{ s += $5 } END { print "average framerate: ", s/NR }' bugle.log
average framerate:  59.7136

You will need to compile and configure BuGLE but this will work with any software using OpenGL to render graphics.

BuGLE HomePage

Frapix is a software that can make something similar (promises to be similar to Fraps), but keep in mind that BuGLE is the "default" solution to this.

Frapix Google Project Home

Measure FPS of the game

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