Frame Rate History

Nexus records your frame rate while you play and keeps the history, so you can see what your machine really delivers over months of play rather than a single benchmark run. Capture is local and automatic: no overlay to enable per game, nothing to start or stop.

Frame-rate capture is a Windows feature. Open Frames from the sidebar - it is a page, not a widget, so if you do not see it, add it from the add-app drawer or find it in search.

What gets recorded

A recording starts when a game takes focus and ends when it loses it, so one session is one stretch of actual play. Nexus samples the frame rate once a second for as long as the window is in front; seconds with no frames at all (loading, paused, minimized) are dropped rather than counted as zero.

Each session keeps its own numbers, along with the resolution and refresh rate it ran at, whether it was fullscreen, and whether the frame rate looked capped - a v-sync or frame limiter holding the rate flat, which the session list marks with a Capped badge so you do not read it as a hardware ceiling.

Capture has its own switch in Settings > Privacy & Data, under Local data store: FPS tracking. Turning it off stops capture entirely. The same section clears recorded data over a time range you choose.

Frame Captures

The Frame Captures tab is your library, most recently played first, with a search box over it. Each card shows the game's art, its average FPS, its 1% low, how long you have played it, and when you last did.

Open a game for the full picture:

• Stats across every session: Avg FPS, 1% Low, 99th Percentile, Sessions, and Hours.
• A session list, each row carrying the date and time, the resolution and refresh rate, how long it lasted, and that session's own average and 1% low.
• FPS Timeline - the selected session's frame rate second by second, with its average and maximum.

The timeline is drawn from the monitoring history, which keeps seven days, so an older session shows its stats but reports that its timeline is older than the 7-day monitoring history. The session stats themselves are kept for a year.

You can delete a single recording from its row, or every recording for a game with Delete all recordings. Both are permanent.

Discover

The Discover tab answers a different question: what should a machine like this one get? It shows community estimates for games at a chosen resolution - 1920×1080, 2560×1440, 3440×1440, or 3840×2160 - each with an average, a 1% low, and a 99th percentile.

Every estimate says what it was matched on, from Same PC configuration down to Estimated from a similar GPU, next to a confidence mark. Where there is no data at the resolution you picked, the card reports the resolution the figure actually came from.