There are several factors that have an impact on the speed at which a game runs. Chief of these is the speed of the CPU (central processing unit), the speed and amount of GPU (graphics processing unit) memory and the amount of system memory (RAM) your Mac has. You can check your Mac's CPU, GPU and system memory by selecting About This Mac from the Apple menu. The faster your processors are and the more RAM your Mac has, the better it will be at running games. Whether you have a high-spec Mac or not, there are a few simple steps you can take to help speed it up for gaming. Later versions of OS X are more efficient than older ones, so updating to the latest version is usually helpful. To update your OS, select About This Mac from the Apple menu at the top left of the screen. Now click on the Software Update button. Depending on which version of OS X your Mac is running this will either open an update window or the Mac App Store app, where any available updates will be displayed.
If there aren't any displayed then you're already running the latest version! Each app you run takes up some system memory; some apps are more memory hungry than others. Games, for example, can require a lot of memory to run properly. Running a lot of apps at the same time can have a detrimental effect on a game's performance. Quitting these apps will free up system memory and can speed up your game. Depending on your model, you may be able to upgrade your Mac’s memory; having more memory can help speed it up. For more information on how to do this, please see Apple’s page on the topic. A full hard drive is a slow hard drive, which means it'll take your Mac longer to load game data from the hard drive into memory. This can slow down a game significantly. There are many apps that can help you delete unneeded data and optimize your hard drive. We recommend the free version of CCleaner, which will help you manage your data and free up space on your hard drive.
It may be that there’s an update available for your game – these updates will sometimes improve the speed at which a game runs. To see if there's an update you can check your game's Support page. You can also keep your game up-to-date automatically by ticking the Automatically check for updates option on the Support tab in your game's pre-game Options window. Every game’s options are slightly different. See the Performance Tips section in your game’s ReadMe for details on how you might improve performance. If none of the above helps, then... All our games come with adjustable graphics. These are typically found in the game's main menu under 'Options' and enable you to tune the way your game looks. Higher graphics options will make the game look better, but are more demanding on the hardware so can have a negative impact on how smoothly a game runs. Reducing graphics settings – for example changing a setting from 'High' to 'Medium' – will usually increase the game's frame rate (the number of frames it displays per second) and it will run more smoothly.
The trade-off is that the game won't look quite as good: edges may become jagged or textures less sharp. We advise you play around with your settings to find a balance between your game playing smoothly and enjoying things like high-resolution textures and special effects. For more information on graphics settings, please see our Guide to video settings.If DC’s “expanded universe” continues to struggle – and this week saw upcoming movie The Flash lose its second director – studio Warner Bros might want to consider shrinking its entire roster of colorful crimefighters down and just make Lego superhero movies instead. For there is more joie de vivre in the new three-minute trailer for The Lego Batman Movie than there was in the entirety of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – and I’m including the extended edition in that equation. Here are five takeaways from our latest look at the tiny, plastic plaything who’s fast making Batfleck look like yesterday’s dark knight.
This caped crusader has had a personality upgrade The Batman we met in The Lego Movie aways seemed an unlikely candidate for his own solo film, a pompous jerk who was more Flash Thompson than Bruce Wayne. But this time around, despite his vast wealth and playboy lifestyle, our Will Arnett-voiced caped crusader is being painted as a far more sympathetic superhero. It appears a life lived all alone in one’s echoing mansion, eating cordon bleu TV dinners and trying to get all your gadgets to sync properly is a rather lonely one. Hence, The Lego Movie looks like it will focus on Batman’s transition from solo operator to leader of an extended family of masked vigilantes, with Robin and Batgirl also pulling on their costumes for the first time. Yes, it’s the plot of Batman & Robin all over again, but without the Batnipples and painful script. Some serious synopsizing of typical Batman mythos has gone down Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, AKA Oracle, has been through almost as many alternate versions as the dark knight himself over the years.
The Lego Batman Movie pitches a new iteration of the superhero who is both Batgirl and Commissioner Gordon, the role usually played by her father James. (The 2007 comic Batman #666, which imagined a future dystopian Gotham, pulled the same trick.)Gordon appears to be set on dropping the Gotham City police department’s traditional public opposition to Batman’s activities in favour of working alongside the dark knight. Has she got the hots for the caped crusader? At least, this being a kids’ movie, we can guarantee they’re not about to go all Killing Joke on us. Michael Cera’s Robin is an eye-poppingly irritating riff on the boy wonder’s reviled status Given Cera often pops up on mean lists of actors who Hollywood forgot about, you might think he’s being rather brave taking on the role that killed Chris O’Donnell’s career. But rather than trying to rehabilitate Robin – a character who comic book fans famously once voted should be killed off – The Lego Batman Movie seems more than happy for us to carry on hating him.
This particular boy wonder, resembling the Carrie Kelley version from The Dark Knight Returns, is an eye-poppingly irritating creation whose sole purpose seems to be to wind Batman up with his perky overenthusiasm and skimpy outfits. The new Joker is a lovesick puppy From The Killing Joke to The Dark Knight, Batman stories have often hinted at the symbiotic connection between the caped crusader and his green-haired nemesis – remember Heath Ledger’s spiky nod to Jerry Maguire? But The Lego Batman Movie seems to be taking the twisted love-hate thing to a whole new level. Informed that Superman is the dark knight’s true enemy – a neat Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice reference – the villain finds himself unexpectedly reduced to tears, his cackling exterior ripped away to reveal the soggy little puppy dog beneath. Might Batman come to regret such coarse and casual contempt further down the line? It doesn’t matter that this is the second Batman film in as many years