

Among the throngs of immigrants and visitors looking for work are hidden smugglers, spies, and terrorists. Your job as immigration inspector is to control the flow of people entering the Arstotzkan side of Grestin from Kolechia. (This is speculation.)Īvoid playing videos or other graphically intensive processes on the macbook monitor while in game.The communist state of Arstotzka has ended a 6-year war with neighboring Kolechia and reclaimed its rightful half of the border town, Grestin. It may avoid system interrupts which could maybe impact game-play. (max_fps) There is really no advantage to pushing more frames than your monitor can display because it causes more heat.ĭisable Bluetooth and wifi if you aren't using them. Use Macs Fans Control to run your fans at max speed to avoid intermittent thermal throttling. I also tried using a thunderbolt to display port cable which gave the worst performance. I have a dock with an HDMI port and it was a bit worse. VSync - This is probably the top FPS killer with very minimal graphics improvement. I personally play with 3008x1692 since I get sufficiently high FPS and value having sharp/crisp graphics. This is particularly apparent when fine-tuning the crosshair size.
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However the lower the resolution, the worse the game looks. In game resolution - Unsurprisingly, the higher the in-game resolution, the lower the FPS. Using the highest system resolution also improves the visual appearance of in game menus, although the console text is quite small. This is because Mac OS has to scale everything for non-"standard" resolutions, which I believe still occurs after the game renders a frame. By far the worst FPS occurs when the system resolution is lower than the in-game resolution.

It is possible to get acceptable FPS with a scaled resolution as long as it is at least as high as the in-game resolution. OS resolution (out of game, System Settings -> Displays) - Set this to the max native resolution of your monitor for the highest FPS. I'll start with summarizing the biggest factors to FPS and summarize my methodology below.

While the most common advice I see is to turn down all graphics settings and to play at a lower resolution, most of the in-game graphics settings make very little impact on FPS while significantly reducing the game play. I play CS:GO on my 14" M1 MBP on an external monitor (3480x2160 60Hz) and I have spent a great deal of time systematically testing various settings to determine how to consistently achieve high FPS (>100) with the highest graphics settings.
