How does FPS and ping works?

[anon81993163]

There’s a diagram showing each RunService event in another topic about it:

RenderStepped, Stepped, or Heartbeat

Each of these run once a frame, but they run at different times during the frame. Here’s a helpful diagram to show this, made by zeuxcg and prettified by Fractality_alt: [image] Examples for when you’d use each: RenderStepped runs before anything renders, so stuff like camera manipulation that’s used to display immediate feedback for the player should be put here. It also blocks rendering until the connected function is done, so don’t put anything too slow in here. Stepped runs before th…

FPS can be calculated using these events, but I’m not quite accurate how the function should be written exactly. The best guess is to check how many times the events can fire in a second. Ping is different and is measured in ms, where it sends a signal back and forth.