Technologies are generally described for a load balancing scheme. In some examples, a method performed under control of a load balancing system may include associating a candidate client device with a lower-resolution client device; measuring resource usage of a game server; determining that the measured resource usage has exceeded a predetermined threshold; and transmitting, to the candidate client device and/or the associated lower-resolution client device, a message that instructs a user of the candidate client device to perform a predetermined task using the associated lower-resolution client device.