What is FPS(frame per second)? How do FPS effect gaming?

[numan]

How FPS effect gaming? What is healthy FPS for playing game? Is the slowness of the game is due to low FPS? How can i check FPS of the game that i am playing?

 

[TS | Thomas]

There's a few articles here you might be interested in;
http://www.daniele.ch/school/30vs60/30vs60_1.html
http://www.mikhailtech.com/articles/editorials/fps/

 

[olefarte]

You can get a free utility called FRAPS that will tell you how many frames you are getting per second.