Gaming on Macbook C2D - 2 GB RAM?

[METOO999]

Black Macbook C2D 1GB RAM - Boot Camp

I'm trying out S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Half-Life 2 and they run fine on medium settings on my Macbook in Boot Camp WinXP SP2. Would a RAM upgrade to 2 GB make a significant difference? It's a basic WinXP installation with nothing else running in the background except ZoneAlarm.

 

[M@lew]

Fine on medium settings? Wow. Sure it's "fine" or just "works"? HL2 i'm not so surprised about, but STALKER I am.

If you upgrade your RAM, you'll probably find that things load faster (levels etc.) but I don't think there will be a big performance increase since that would require GPU.

 

[METOO999]

Let me amend that STALKER merely "works." It's a bit choppy looking left to right on lower settings, but playable. I haven't gotten into heavy firefights yet. The game still looks nice.

 

[RaMaz]

2 Gb or ram is better, and it does preform much better

DONT 4GeT

The intel 950 (macbook low-end iMac and mac mini use) is shared with main memory on windows, more ram, more power

 

[Airforce]

2 Gb or ram is better, and it does preform much better

DONT 4GeT

The intel 950 (macbook low-end iMac and mac mini use) is shared with main memory on windows, more ram, more power

more ram doesn't = better graphics, just more graphics memory.

 

[Episteme]

more ram doesn't = better graphics, just more graphics memory.

Indeed.

The big win is that more memory = less swapping.

 

[LeftoverCrack]

well i noticed a decent increase in frames when i upped my ram. especially under bootcamp

 

[Crow47]

What other games have you tried on it? This is of particular interest to me because I get mine in two days, the exact same model you have.

Have you tried COD4? Have you tried any other UT3 engined games (perhaps even UT3?)?