How to Show FPS on Screen in Godot

Here's how you can display your games FPS on your screen in the Godot Engine. I mainly use this to Debug my games as it's pretty helpful.

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[igorthelight]

One small tip: fps counter updates ones per second but you are calling the function and changes the Label's text once per frame - that lowers the FPS by itself!
I would suggest to use Timer so you could call a function and update the Label text once per second:
onready var fps_label := $FPSLabel

func _ready() -> void:
var fps_timer := Timer.new()
add_child(fps_timer)
timer.connect("timeout", self, "_on_FPSTimer_timeout")
timer.start()

func _on_FPSTimer_timeout() -> void:
fps_label.text =

[nabvhan]

straight forward, clean and simple much love, bless you

[sobirjonqadirov]

thanks for awesome, short and very useful tutorial!

[clubcyberia]

thanks for making a simple, short tutorial.
you got to the point, and didnt waffle about. thanks :)

[adran]

Pls more content, this is really helpful

[alexkt]

Good stuff, but it's almost hard to hear you talk over the music, just a heads up

[Galaxia]

It now shows the FPS for that scene but my game is in another scene

Edit: I linked to the ColorRect and made it a child of the camera and that worked

[PavltheRobot]

It works only if the script is added to the main scene, adding script to a label or another scene gives the "Invalid set index 'text' (on base: 'null instance') with value of type 'String'." error even if you mention correctly the name of label node in the script.

[bnkm]

Invalid set index 'text' (on base: 'null instance') with value of type 'String'. PLS HELP