How To Boost Fps For Mac
Subtitles – Narrator You guys have requested a part two on how to increase Fortnite's FPS on Mac, so that's what we're going to do. If you haven't watched part one, stop this video and watch part one first. The link to the previous video is in the description, or you can access it from the card on screen now.
The video you're watching now is more of an extension on the first episode. To follow along with this guide, make sure your Mac is running macOS High Sierra, and was released from 2012 and above.
Feb 19, 2014 - I myself am a mac user, but for those other mac users out there that don't really know how they can increase their mine craft performance,.
Mac's before 2012 don't support Metal, and Fortnite requires Metal to run. With all that out of the way, let's get this second guide started.
I've got two methods to either increase FPS slightly or to avoid crashes whilst launching Fortnite. First, let's add an additional command line argument to Fortnite. To do this, open the Epic Games Launcher, and click on the Settings tab. From here, go down to Manage Games, and open the Fortnite tab. Click on the Additional Command Line Arguments.
Enter in the following command, which can be found in the video description. This command will make sure your Mac is using all of its resources when running Fortnite, setting the game at high priority. Try launching Fortnite and see if you have more performance. Next, we're going to open Fortnite via another method.
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To do this, go to the finder icon, right-click it, and then click Go to Folder. Paste in the following directory, which you can find in the video description, and hit Go. From here open the EpicGamesLauncher-Mac-Shipping file. This will open the Epic Games Launcher.
Try to open Fortnite now. I should warn, if you close this window, it will close the Epic Games Launcher, so just ignore it. You might just find this opens the game correctly, avoiding crashes for example. It may not work at all, but it's worth a go. In the first episode we edited some files using the GameUserSettings file, and we're going to edit a few more lines today. Okay, let's do it.
Find the finder icon in your dock, right-click it, and then click Go to Folder. Enter in the following command and hit Go. This command is also in the description. With the folder now open find GameUserSettings.
Before we do anything, make a copy of it, anywhere on your Mac, just in case you want to put the settings back to how they originally were. Now to open this file, right-click it, then click Open With, then click Other. You should see a box now with your all your installed applications. Find and open Text Edit. We're going to change a few small things here.
First, find DiscreteResolutionQuality= and change it to one. Now find ScalabilityGroups and put everything to one. You can leave ResoultionQuality= alone, as we changed that in the previous video.
Okay, we're done here. Make sure the settings are like mine, and hit the Save button. It's important to mention that any changes you make here will be erased if you change the resolution size and windowed mode within Fortnite's in-game settings. One cause of lag is often because of the region you're playing on. Fortnite automatically sets the region you're playing on, but sometimes it isn't correct. Changing it to the appropriate region might just increase FPS slightly.
With Fortnite open go into Settings, and go into the Game tab. Find the Matchmaking Region and change it to the lowest ms, which also stands for millisecond, or some people call it your ping rate. The lower the ms, the better. Basically it takes a packet of data to travel from you to the host of a server, if that makes sense, so changing it to the right one will, hopefully, increase your FPS. For me, I play on Oceania, because it has the lowest ms, and because I'm from Australia. There are a few apps you might be using on your Mac that are causing FPS drops in Fortnite.
The first one is Discord, which a lot of you use whilst playing games. Let's turn off Discords Hardware Acceleration. To do this, make sure Discord is open and go up to Preferences. From this window find Appearance. Now simply turn off Hardware Acceleration. Discord should automatically restart. The same principle applies if you're running Google Chrome in the background, so let's change it.
With Chrome open go into the Settings tab. Find Advanced, and turn off Use hardware acceleration when available.
It's best to re-launch Chrome for this to take effect. Time Machine is a great and powerful service on Mac that backs up your Mac computer daily to an external hard drive. But leaving it on whilst playing games can slow down your Mac.
I suggest turning it off when you play Fortnite. To turn it off, you can either eject your external hard drive, or go into System Preferences, then Time Machine, and then turn it off. I will say only turn it off when playing Fortnite or any other games for that matter. A lot of you might not even back up your Mac so this method isn't of use to you, but I know some of you out there do, so I thought I'd mention it regardless.
And that's it. Five more methods to increase Fortnite's FPS on Mac. If you've found this video useful, please leave a like and check out some of my other videos on how to best play Fortnite on Mac. Anyway, thanks for watching.
Olson.8439: Thanks for taking the time to answer the question, but tbh, to people comfortable with tweaking config files in app bundles, suggesting 'start with the lowest settings' is practically an insult. It would be more (intellectually) honest to say, for example 'The new GW2 64 bit mac client automatically optimizes the memory it uses' and/or 'the 64 bit client no longer uses the settings text file that used to be found in the 32 bit client.' The question specifically asks if there is a way to override the application's memory allocation, with such a config file or through command line modifiers. For example, I have 64gb of RAM and 8gb of VRAM on two AMD GPUs but the game plays and feels almost the same way as on my laptop with 8gb RAM and 1.5gb VRAM. It would be nice to be able to tell/force the game to use a lot more of that memory capacity, and hence the need to ask the same question as.9572.
I would start with the lowest settings and slowly tweak settings. If your computer is fairly new and has a discrete graphics card, a lot of settings can be set in the medium to high range. Intel-based graphics may need to be set lower. Older machines will likely need to be set lower as well. I would avoid running at Retina scale (the one matching the logical resolution is often just fine), and you probably don't need anti-aliasing. Performance killers tend to be the same between Windows and Mac.
Thank you for your reply, Jon. I run the game on the lowest settings alternating between the Character Quality and Character Limit as to Low and Lowest. I also set the game to 'Open in Low Resolution'. This made the game ran how it previously did on the 32-bit. However, the loading times are still very long. As a comparison, it took me 30 seconds to load in the Molten Duo fractal. And in PvP, when I'm about to enter a match, it takes me nearly a minute to load.
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Said: While the load times are ok, even with the lowest settings, i have average 12 FPS. While the change of your config file helped with the 32 bit client, now there isn't that option, there isn't anything else to improve our performance. There isn't much to be done. Even the newest macs like mine only use openGL 4.1 - which is vintage 2010, Direct X is not supportted because microsoft has a monoploy on that.
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The only way to get performance that would be equal or better than running windows on your mac via bootcamp would be to have an OSX Native Gw2 APP coded to use Metal for the graphics API - such a change would however require a big rework of GW2. As much as I would love to see it happen - I don't think they're going to do it. Done with Metal - a new mac should outperform windows running GW2.
That said allowing more than one processor core to be used for GW2 would have a major performance impact as well and would help some with the graphics. I really hope they work toward that.
Some info on metal.