
You can turn down the audio quality by navigating the Audio tab in the Settings menu, but that’s really a last ditch effort that may cause more problems than it’s worth.

While graphics quality plays a major role in overall performance, the sound quality can also lower your frame rate. Click the arrows on the “Window Mode” option until you hit Fullscreen. If Fortnite has been running in Windowed mode, head back to the Video tab in the Settings menu. Running games in Windowed mode tends to reduce performance and really only works well for simple 2D games, as full screen mode allocates more resources to the program. Note that the Epic Games Launcher must actually be kept open at all times, as Fortnite can’t open as a standalone program without that app running in the background. Shut down all other applications on your machine before running Fortnite, from chat programs like Discord to any other apps that may be running in the background. This is great advice whether you are running Fortnite on Windows, mobile, or Mac to ensure you’ve got the most memory and CPU cycles available for the game.

“At Xbox we want to make gaming accessible to the 3 billion players around the world, and cloud has an important role in that mission,” Xbox Cloud Gaming Head of Product Catherine Gluckstein said. Microsoft says that Fortnite will be its first popular free-to-play cloud gaming title, but not its last. It’s also a useful defensive position against Apple on an issue that’s already created a rift between the companies.Īpparently, Apple foiled Microsoft’s plans to launch an expansive all-in-one Xbox Cloud Gaming iOS app by requiring individual games to be downloaded separately - a restriction that explains why Microsoft is pointing people to the browser for Fortnite instead of the App Store. Microsoft is betting big on cloud gaming so it makes sense for the company to partner with Epic, one of the rare gaming companies that has seamless cross-platform online multiplayer totally dialed in at this point.

Apparently, between a spicy Apple commercial last year featuring the “I’m a PC” actor John Hodgman and Microsoft going out of its way to pair up with Epic, one of Apple’s most outspoken critics, that rivalry looks to be back on. Microsoft and Apple once had a well-branded rivalry, but competitive tensions between the two companies have cooled in recent years.
