Welcome back, in today’s video I’ll be showing you how to improve game performance
and FPS on a Mac or MacBook.
Most Macs or MacBooks won’t necessarily be built for gaming, but if you do play games
on it, hopefully some of the methods will help you gain a little performance increase
or boost in FPS.
The methods should work on any Mac or MacBook running macOS.
We’ll be focusing on limiting the impact of background programs and processes which
should free up some of the hardware to use in games.
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into the methods.
The first method to boost FPS and improve game performance on a Mac or MacBook is to
close unnecessary apps or programs when you aren’t using them.
If you see the small circle below the app on the dock at the bottom of the screen, it
means that app isn’t fully closed.
Make sure you fully close an app in order to prevent it from using the resources of
your Mac.
To ensure an app is fully closed, open it and first make sure any work is saved.
You can use the keyboard shortcut of Command and the Q key to fully close it.
You may need to hold down this key combination on certain apps for it to close.
Let’s move onto the next method.
The next method is to stop some apps from running automatically when you start your
Mac or MacBook.
These apps might run in the background and use up the resources.
To stop apps from starting automatically when you start your Mac or MacBook, first go to
system preferences.
You can get there by clicking on the apple icon in the top left and then by choosing
system preferences from the list.
Within system preferences, click on users and groups.
It should be somewhere on the second row.
In here, choose your profile from the list on the left.
Now go to the login items tab, it will probably be next to the password tab.
You should now be able to see the list of applications that will run automatically when
you start your Mac or MacBook.
To stop a program from running at start up, select it in here by clicking on it once and
then click on the minus icon.
You can always add it again in the future by clicking on the plus icon and then navigating
to where it is stored on your Mac.
This will likely be the applications folder.
Let’s move onto the next method.
Up next, we’ll try and find out which apps use the most resources.
Once we find out which use the most, you can make sure that they aren’t running next
time you play a game.
To do this, open up the activity monitor.
You can do this by pressing command and the spacebar and then by searching for activity
monitor.
Within the activity monitor, look in the CPU tab and the memory tab.
In the CPU tab, the percentage on the left will tell you a lot about the app’s processor
usage.
The higher the percentage, the more resources it’s using.
If you notice any apps that you aren’t using, or that you can do without temporarily, then
you close them fully using the method mentioned earlirt.
If there are programs or processes that you don’t recognize, it’s probably best to
leave them alone.
The same can be done in the memory tab, but by looking for high amounts in the memory
column.
The next thing to try is removing unnecessary files and freeing up space on your Mac or
MacBook.
If your drive is close to or at capacity, then you will likely notice a drop in performance,
especially with loading times.
There are so many ways to free up space that I have a separate video that will show you
ten easy methods to free up space.
Click the card onscreen now to watch that video.
To improve FPS, it might also be worth changing some of the settings in the game.
You could try reducing some of the visual settings or the resolution.
Have a look online for some of the optimised settings as you may be able to squeeze out
a few extra frames by disabling certain features.
The next method is to make sure your device has sufficient cooling.
It’s very easy for MacBooks in particular to overheat so try and use them in a well-ventilated
area and try and avoid covering the fans.
The final method to improve game performance and boost FPS on a Mac or MacBook is to update
your device if you can.
Running the latest version will help reduce compatibility issues.
Also make sure the game you want to play has the latest updates installed.
If you want to know how to update your Mac or MacBook then click the card onscreen now
to watch my video showing you how to do that.
And so those are my methods to try and help improve game performance and FPS on a Mac
or MacBook.
Click the card onscreen now to watch a video of mine showing you ten easy ways you can
speed up your macOS device.
We’ve already done a few of those methods today so you should be able to zoom through
that video for even more performance.
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