How to increase fps on web browser games? [closed]

I play a lot of browser games since my Mac isn't very optimized for games. When I play I consistently get 30 - 50 frames per second, and I can't really play well. Are there any ways to boost fps with a certain browser, or with special commands? Thanks.

Solution 1:

Some possible answers:

• Try hardware acceleration if it's available.

• Upgrade the RAM if the machine only has an integrated graphics card.

• Use an eGPU if you're running macOS 10.13.4+ and have a Thunderbolt 3 port.

• Use gfxCardStatus on a 2008-2012 dual-GPU MBP. This will only be useful if it's not already using the dedicated graphics card while running games in the browser.

• Try using Windows via Bootcamp.

• As aphid suggests in their answer, try lowering the resolution. This can be combined with other option(s) for maximum speed.

Solution 2:

For flash based games, in particular

Flash games tend to be limited/bottlenecked to single-core cpu performance for their drawing, tend to have per-pixel calls. HTML video and flash on non-windows platforms often has no hardware accelleration support.

Apple devices tend to have very high resolution on their retina displays.

That means it (on a game-by-game basis) might also be very impactful to lower their resolution. (Play in a smaller than full-screen window or using zoom).