How to Show FPS and Ping in Big Walk (PC, Mac, and Consoles)

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When navigating the massive, open-world Australian bushland of Big Walk, performance and network stability are critical to the experience. Hosting a 12-player cooperative session places a heavy demand on your hardware, and because the game’s core puzzle mechanics rely entirely on proximity voice chat, a lagging network connection can completely ruin the immersion. If your ping spikes, your friends’ voices will stutter, echo, or cut out entirely, making coordination impossible.

Despite the importance of these technical metrics, House House designed the game with a minimalist user interface to maximize immersion. You won’t find a built-in “Show Network Stats” toggle sitting conveniently in the primary pause menu. If you want to track your frames per second (FPS) or monitor your connection latency, you will have to rely on platform-specific overlays and system tools.

Thanks to the dedicated players over at the Reddit solvebase community, we have compiled the best methods to display your FPS and ping across PC, Mac, and console platforms.

Showing FPS and Ping on PC (Steam)

If you are playing Big Walk on a Windows PC, the easiest and most reliable way to track your performance without installing heavy third-party software is through the Steam client itself. Steam features a lightweight, built-in FPS counter that works perfectly with the game.

Follow these steps to enable the Steam FPS counter:

1. Open the main Steam client window (not the game).
2. Click on Steam in the top-left corner and select Settings.
3. In the left-hand sidebar, click on the In-Game tab.
4. Look for the dropdown menu labeled In-Game FPS Counter.
5. Select the corner of the screen where you want the number to appear (e.g., Top-right).
6. For better visibility against the game’s bright blue skies and green foliage, toggle on the High Contrast Color option.

While Steam easily handles the framerate, ping is a bit trickier. Because Big Walk uses a peer-to-peer listen server structure (where one player acts as the host for the other 11), ping is highly dependent on who created the lobby. If you are experiencing heavy voice chat delays or character rubber-banding, you can use Windows Resource Monitor to check your latency to the host. Press the Windows key, type “Resource Monitor,” navigate to the Network tab, and look for the game executable under “TCP Connections” to see your exact latency in milliseconds.

For advice on choosing the player with the best internet connection to lead your session, read our guide on how to host and join games.

Enabling Performance Metrics on Mac

Apple users playing Big Walk have access to a powerful, system-level tool called the Metal Performance HUD. Because the game utilizes Apple’s Metal graphics API to render its expansive environments, you can overlay a highly detailed diagnostic window directly onto your screen. This is particularly useful for players on older Apple Silicon chips trying to balance visual fidelity with smooth gameplay.

To enable the Metal Performance HUD for Big Walk:

1. Close the game completely if it is currently running.
2. Open the Terminal application (you can find this by pressing Command + Space and searching for “Terminal”).
3. Type the following command exactly as written and press Enter: defaults write -g MetalForceHudEnabled -bool true
4. Launch Big Walk.

You will now see a detailed, floating graph in the corner of your screen showing your exact FPS, GPU utilization, and rendering resolution. This is vastly superior to the basic Steam counter because it tells you exactly what is causing performance bottlenecks. If you are dropping below 30 frames per second while running through dense grass, this HUD will tell you if your graphics processor is maxing out. To turn the HUD off when you are done testing, simply re-open Terminal and run the same command, replacing true with false.

Performance Monitoring on PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2

Console ecosystems are notoriously locked down when it comes to performance monitoring. Neither the PlayStation 5 nor the Nintendo Switch 2 features a native, user-facing FPS counter or a numeric ping display.

If you are playing on the Switch 2, you are likely already aware of the hardware limitations. As discussed in our detailed breakdown of Big Walk’s reported performance struggles on Nintendo Switch 2, frame drops in heavily wooded areas are somewhat expected.

While you cannot slap a number on the screen, you can diagnose console network issues by paying close attention to the game’s audio cues. The proximity voice chat is the ultimate canary in the coal mine for high ping.

• Stuttering or Robotic Voices: If your friends sound like robots or their sentences are constantly clipping, you are experiencing high packet loss or severe latency spikes.
• Delayed Responses: If you speak, and it takes two full seconds for a friend standing right next to you to react, the host’s ping is too high.

If you encounter these issues on a console, your only recourse is to pause the game, have everyone leave the lobby, and ask a different player—preferably one using a hardwired Ethernet connection rather than Wi-Fi—to host the session.

Maintaining a stable 60 FPS and a low ping isn’t just about making the game look pretty; it is a fundamental requirement for the walker-talker genre. By utilizing the Steam overlay or the Mac Metal HUD, you can easily troubleshoot your hardware and ensure your 12-player wilderness expedition goes off without a hitch.