What is FPS

FPS (frames per second) means how often the frames (images) change on your screen.

In other words, how many times per second the picture from the game is refreshed. The higher your FPS, the better (and smoother) your gaming experience.

You can see your current FPS in the right upper corner of the screen

Some players think that FPS depends on internet connection speed or server workload. But that’s not true. This value depends primarily on your computer’s performance.

If you’re getting low FPS, follow the instructions below.

How do I raise my FPS? – General guidelines

First of all, check your settings. Make sure that all graphic effects are disabled.

To view your settings, click on the «cogwheel» button in the lower-left corner. If you are in a battle, you can find the Settings button in the pause menu, which you can open by pressing the «Escape» button.

• If you play from a laptop, make sure you activate Ultimate (or High) Performance mode in your operating system’s power options.
• Update your browser to the latest available version. You can usually do this from the “About” section of your browser menu.
• Go to https://webglreport.com/?v=2, find the “Unmasked Renderer” value, and make sure the correct graphics card is chosen in this parameter.
  • If you see “Google Swift” instead of your graphics card, update the drivers for your graphics card
  • If you have a laptop with two graphics cards and the website shows you an integrated one (e.g. Intel HD Graphics) instead of your discrete graphics card, follow the instructions further down on this page, under the heading “Laptop with 2 graphics cards”
• Download and install the latest drivers for your graphics card. Here are the links to some common brands: NVIDIA, AMD / ATI, Intel

IMPORTANT! If you have a laptop or a monoblock PC — you need to download the drivers from the manufacturer’s website for your model.

• Try to decrease the size of the game window (press the «-» (minus) button on the keyboard while in battle.
• Close all browser tabs except the one with the game.
• Close all other programs to release some system resources.
• Try rebooting your PC.
• Try one of these other browsers: Google Chrome, Opera, Yandex, Vivaldi.
• You can adjust “Image resolution” in the “Graphics” settings. Here is an example:

To find out the name of your graphics card on Windows, press «Win+R». In the window that shows up, write “dxdiag” (without the quotation marks) and press «Enter».

A new window should show up. Click on the Display tab.

To find out the name of your graphics card on macOS, click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner and click on «About this Mac».

Graphics card settings

For NVIDIA graphics cards:

• Right-click on your desktop and choose «NVIDIA Control Panel» → «Adjust image settings with preview». Choose «Use my preference emphasizing:» and move the slider all the way to the left towards “Performance”. Click «Apply»

For ATI/AMD graphics cards:

• Right-click on your desktop and choose «AMD Catalyst Control Center» → «Default parameters» → «Apply user preferences». Choose «Performance». Choose «MipMap detail level» tab → move slider to left → «Performance». Click «Apply» → «OK».

Here is another way on how to increase FPS on HTML5 if the methods above did not work.

Many players are reporting extremely low frame rates and high ping with the new HTML5 version of the game, this could be due to many reasons.

• Your PC is simply not powerful enough, currently HTML5 is more demanding than Flash though developers are optimizing it.
• More commonly, you have Hardware acceleration disabled in your browser.

HWA -as we will call it now- offloads the work of running the game from your CPU to your GPU which is designed to run games and this frees up your CPU for more important tasks.

First, you need to check if you have HWA on or off. Works for CHROME & OPERA, other Chromium browsers are untested though the steps should be similar or identical. (HTML5 only works on Chromium browsers)

Type this into your search bar:

chrome://gpu/

This should bring up a page that looks something like this: 

If you see all these options saying ‘Hardware accelerated’ in Green as this image shows then you already have HWA enabled and your low performance is caused by something else.

If you see ‘Software only, hardware acceleration unavailable/disabled’ then you need to enter your browser settings:

Type this into your search bar and follow the images below:

chrome://settings

Scroll to the bottom > Advanced > System > Use hardware acceleration when available 

Enable the option and relaunch your browser, you should now see ‘Hardware accelerated’ on the GPU page and experience much better performance.

In order to solve the issue with “Connection Closed”, click on the respective section and follow the instructions.

How to clean the Tanki Online client’s cache

Tanki Online client is giving us extraordinary performance but what to do when you want to clear its cache? Maybe you have tried to reinstall but that didn’t work, right?

Do not worry, the following steps will help you clean your cache:

How to clean your browser’s cache

Clearing browser cache manually

Google Chrome

1. Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
2. Select Tools.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
4. Check all the boxes except for Clear saved passwords
5. Use the menu at the top to select the amount of data that you want to delete. Select the beginning of time to delete everything.

6. Click Clear browsing data.

Opera

1. On the “Tools” menu, click Delete Private Data…
2. On the “Delete private data” screen, click Details.

Note: In Opera 10.0 and higher, the button will be labelled “Detail Options” on the left side.

1. Check the “Delete entire cache” box. Then click Delete.

Firefox

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the Firefox button and then select Options
2. Select the Advanced panel.
3. Click on the Network tab.
4. In the Cached Web Content section, click Clear Now.
5. Click OK to close the Options window.

Safari

Safari for Mac OS X

1. Once your browser is open, click the Safari menu and select Empty Cache…
2. Click Empty.

Safari for Windows

1. Once your browser is open, click the gear icon on the top right.
2. Select “Reset Safari…” This will prompt a screen to open.
3. Select “Remove all website data” at the very bottom of the prompt. Check or uncheck any other categories you want reset.
4. Click “Reset”.

Microsoft Edge

1. Open Microsoft Edge.
2. Click on your browser settings (can be seen thanks to a three dot icon on the top right corner of the browser)
3. Click on the “Settings” button.
4. On the search bar, search the word “Cache”.
5. Next to “Clear browsing data now”, click on “Choose what to clear”.
6. Select “Cached images and files” and “Cookies and other site data” options.
7. Click on “Clear Now”.

Clearing your browser’s cache and cookies using CCleaner software

CCleaner is a program that can do many things, including clearing cache and cookies of your browser. The procedure takes a few seconds and you do not need to go to the settings of your browser. You can download CCleaner here. Once the installation is complete, open the program and click the Applications tab. Find your browser there and check the Internet Cache and Cookies boxes, click “Run Cleaner.”