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How To Optimize Mac For Gaming

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Hello guys, today in this post i am gonna tell you how to optimize your AMD Radeon settings for better gaming performance & boost FPS. Before we begin, this method is only for the latest AMD drivers the adrenalin Edition. So if you are running the previous edition of AMD graphics drivers such as catalyst or crimson, I recommend you to uninstall those drivers completely from your computer and get the latest adrenalin edition drivers for your particular GPU from the official source. So hope you all installed the latest edition and the graphics drivers at this point, so let’s begin with best AMD Radeon settings for gaming & boost FPS 2018.

  1. Optimize Mac Storage
  2. How To Optimize Mac For Gaming Free
  3. How To Optimize Mac Performance

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Optimize Windows 10 for Gaming So, these are some of the ways through which you can optimize gaming performance in your Windows 10 PC. Do note that with every new software update and newer games, the need for optimization becomes lesser, as developers are focused on making their games run on maximum number of PCs as possible. How To Optimize Mac For Gaming. When you start thinking how to play games on your Mac and about what you need to do to optimize your Mac so you can get maximum performance out of it, first of all, think about getting more space, freeing up memory, clearing up clutter, turning off unneeded features, and lowering your graphics card requirements. How to improve gaming performance on Mac Last Updated: 10 October 2019 If you want to play games on macOS devices without any problems, you need to spend a bit of effort and time. But thanks to platforms like Steam and Humble Bundles, more games are available for Macs. Still, Macs are known to under-perform when gaming – even when rigs meet the minimum system requirements. Tweaking your machine can help make things run a little more smoothly. Related: Steam controller review. Here’s how to optimize Mac for gaming.

Best AMD Radeon Settings for Gaming & Boost FPS 2019 [How to]

  1. Right-click on your desktop and choose AMD Radeon Settings, which will bring you to the AMD Radeon Settings window and the first thing we have to do here is to make sure you’re running the latest version of your graphics driver. You can do that by going to the Updates tab and click on Check for Updates. If you found any go for it and get it updated because the latest drivers are always to get a better performance.
  2. Now let’s go ahead and optimize the AMD settings. Click on the Gaming tab then click on Global Settings and once you’re here right click on the Reset button. Now choose Graphics Settings then click on Yes and it will reset everything back to default. So if you are previously messed up any settings here it will not affect your new optimization process.
  3. Now you need to click on the Anti-aliasing Mode. Now choose Override application settings which reveals Anti-aliasing Level settings. So make sure you are selected a 2X option from here.
  4. Now click on the Anisotropic Filtering Mode and turn it on which will bring you the Anisotropic Filtering Level and again make sure you are selected the least of the setting which is 2X option.
  5. Now go to Texture Filtering Quality by default it is set to standard but I recommend you to choose Performance option.
  6. Now go to Wait for Vertical Refresh, it’s not something new but the same old vsync or vertical sync so I recommend you to choose the option Always off for vertical sync.
  7. Now go to Tessellation Mode and you can see it is set to AMD optimized option by default. At this point the tessellation process will always run at a maximum level which is 64x but it can definitely have a negative impact on the performance especially if you’re running games on a low-end card. So I recommend you to change the AMD optimized option to Override application settings and Maximum Tessellation Level settings fell revealed to you. So click on it and choose 32X or lower but beware decreasing most of the settings below a certain level may result in a loss in quality.

That’s all we can do to optimize the AMD settings for better gaming or boost fps. So hope you all experiencing a performance boost in your games by doing this optimization. Let us know in the comments below.

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Symptoms

  • I am not satisfied with my Mac performance when I run Parallels Desktop virtual machine (VM).
  • I am not satisfied with Parallels VM performance.

Cause

Mac

There might be multiple possible reasons for low performance, for example:

  • Underpowered hardware
  • Using an outdated Parallels Desktop version or build.
  • Too many resources assigned to the virtual machine.
  • Multiple anti-virus programs installed.
  • Too many virtual machines are running.

The Basics

Virtual machine performance is to computer's hardware resources. It is also very important to allocate even shares of hardware resources between host operating system (macOS) and guest (VM) according to the recommended system requirements of both systems.

Note: Parallels Desktop 14 for Mac brings a new feature: CPU Usage Monitor. Look at VM window tray and CPU Usage Monitor will light up in red when CPU usage in Windows is above 70%. Click on CPU Usage monitor to see what processes in Windows use computer's CPU. Clicking on a process name will open Windows Task Manager showing selected process:

Computer's performance mostly depends on several hardware components: CPU, RAM and hard disk. While CPU cannot be replaced at hand, most of Mac computers enabled for RAM and hard disk upgrade.

Upgrading Your Mac with a Solid State Drive

If your Mac uses a hard disk drive (HDD), it is to replace the drive with a solid state one (SSD). This is the #1 recommendation for all Mac users which gives significant performance boost to Mac at 2-3 times. Contact your local Apple Authorised Service Provider to get assistance with the disk replacement.

TIP: you can check your Mac's drive type at 'System Information' report (click  > About this Mac > System Report.. > Hardware > SATA/SATA Express)

Upgrading Your Mac with Better Memory Modules (RAM)

If you notice in Activity Monitor that your memory pressure is up to the maximum, it's time to check if your Mac allows you to do RAM replacement with higher modules capacity.

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Checking Software Settings

macOS

  1. Make sure that you have ample free disk space on your startup disk. Visit this article for more details: KB 123553.
  2. Use Activity Monitor to check what unwanted applications consume a high percentage of system resources (CPU and Memory).
  3. Make sure Time Machine backup is not taking place while you’re running the virtual machine. The backup process may slow down overall system performance.

Parallels Desktop Preferences

  1. Make sure you're using the latest build for your Parallels Desktop version:

    • On the macOS menu bar click Parallels Desktop icon > Check for Updates... Download and install the updates if available.
  2. Store your virtual machine within Mac HD (internal storage). Running a VM from external USB disk or NAS may significantly lower VM performance.
  3. Be careful running several virtual machines at once - each VM consumes considerable amount of resources and may slow down overall computer performance.

Optimize Mac Storage

How

How To Optimize Mac For Gaming Free

Virtual Machine Configuration

How To Optimize Mac Performance

  1. Shutdown your VM > open its configuration > switch to Hardware tab > CPU & Memory > make sure that the number of processors (CPUs) selected is not maximum (e.g. 4 out of 4). In most cases, half of total CPUs will provide optimal performance. Assigning more than a half of CPUs for the virtual machine may cause performance degradation for both Mac and VM.

  2. Make sure that memory allocation is within the recommended level. Similarly to processors, best practice is to assign half of Mac's total RAM.

    NOTE:The amount of memory assigned to a virtual machine must be multiple of 1024 or Windows may behave inappropriately. E.g 1024, 2048, 3072 MBs and so on.

  3. Under Advanced settings make sure that 'Parallels' hypervisor is selected.

  4. Under Hardware > Graphics set Memory option to Auto (Recommended).

    NOTE: For Windows 10 virtual machines make sure that under Advanced Settings 3D acceleration is set to DirectX 10.

  5. If your Mac uses an HDD or a FusionDrive (not SSD), make sure that the option TRIM is disabled: go to Hardware > Hard Disk 1 > Advanced Settings > uncheck Enable TRIM option.

  6. Start you virtual machine and test performance.