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Just thought I'd share this as it's made a MASSIVE improvement to my overall experience at Redbet.
(This will probably work for any other casino software that runs in a web browser, but I haven't tried it yet.)
I was playing NetEnt slots at RedBet last night, had four of them tiled in my browser window at once, and by crikey it was chugging. Animations were slow and jerky, frames were being dropped, it just all looked a bit poor. (For example when free spins is triggered on Jack and the Beanstalk, the animation where he gets launched up into the clouds was pretty ropey.)
Now I knew it wasn't down to my PC, as it's a very capable gaming PC, but I figured it was just a limitation of running four games at once in a browser window without hardware acceleration.
Then I thought to myself, why can't I just force my browser to use GPU acceleration? It's an application like any other, after all. It just seemed ridiculous that I've got a 2GB GTX670 in my PC doing naff-all whilst I'm watching online slots run like a bloody slideshow.......
Well, it turns out you can force Chrome to use GPU acceleration!
1) Type about:flags into Chrome's address bar
2) Find the entry for GPU Accelerated Compositing
3) Set it to enabled
4) Restart Chrome
Huzzah! Now I can have four graphically intensive NetEnt slots running at once, at a gorgeous silky-smooth 60 frames per second! It makes them look soooooo much nicer and smoother!
If your PC/laptop has any sort of half-decent graphics capability (and even fairly cheap laptops have reasonable integrated GPUs these days), I seriously recommend you give it a try. Obviously you'll need to be running Chrome as your web browser (if you're not doing that already, you really should be), I'm not sure if IE or Firefox have matching capabilities, I haven't checked.
Give it a go and see what you think!
(This will probably work for any other casino software that runs in a web browser, but I haven't tried it yet.)
I was playing NetEnt slots at RedBet last night, had four of them tiled in my browser window at once, and by crikey it was chugging. Animations were slow and jerky, frames were being dropped, it just all looked a bit poor. (For example when free spins is triggered on Jack and the Beanstalk, the animation where he gets launched up into the clouds was pretty ropey.)
Now I knew it wasn't down to my PC, as it's a very capable gaming PC, but I figured it was just a limitation of running four games at once in a browser window without hardware acceleration.
Then I thought to myself, why can't I just force my browser to use GPU acceleration? It's an application like any other, after all. It just seemed ridiculous that I've got a 2GB GTX670 in my PC doing naff-all whilst I'm watching online slots run like a bloody slideshow.......
Well, it turns out you can force Chrome to use GPU acceleration!
1) Type about:flags into Chrome's address bar
2) Find the entry for GPU Accelerated Compositing
3) Set it to enabled
4) Restart Chrome
Huzzah! Now I can have four graphically intensive NetEnt slots running at once, at a gorgeous silky-smooth 60 frames per second! It makes them look soooooo much nicer and smoother!
If your PC/laptop has any sort of half-decent graphics capability (and even fairly cheap laptops have reasonable integrated GPUs these days), I seriously recommend you give it a try. Obviously you'll need to be running Chrome as your web browser (if you're not doing that already, you really should be), I'm not sure if IE or Firefox have matching capabilities, I haven't checked.
Give it a go and see what you think!