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Question about how a couple of games run on MBP's
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While I haven't personally played either of them, nearly everything else runs Brilliantly on mine. I play C&C, WoW, BF2, FEAR, etc. I doubt you will have any problems.
Yeah I haven't played either of those games but I can telll you the MacBook Pro is amazing with gaming on Bootcamp. I installed Windows (scary experience) and all my games work under the highest settings (Halo, Max Payne 2, Rainbow Six).
Then maybe you will be better served with a Macbook + PC combo.
The Macbook Pro isn't fantastic for games, I own a 15" with the 256mb GPU and it chokes on Civilization IV (The Aspyr port) on medium graphics settings. I play Guild Wars via Boot Camp on high and frequently experience graphic lags, to the point that I just get rid of boot camp altogether and gave up on games.
Macs are macs.
If you are not prepared to give up on your recreational software perhaps it is time to reconsider the platform of your choosing?
I ran COD2 with all the extras and full res no problems.
My wifes go7600 in her HP 9000 couldn't handle full res.
My wifes go7600 in her HP 9000 couldn't handle full res.
Aspyr has horrible ports. They are all extemely buggy and slow, as proof, i submit their port of KOTOR, which was laggy beyond belief. MacSoft ports are the better ones, as they will play great even under Rosetta.
Well, I tried the Company of Heroes demo and ran the performance test in the video options after turning the graphics down and such. It averaged like 29 fps and looked pretty terrible. I then ran the same test on my pc and averaged 35 fps with many settings on. My PC has an older processor, half the ram, and a x850xt video card.
Shouldn't my 17" MBP C2D be able to outdo it? Are the outdated drivers the issue?
Shouldn't my 17" MBP C2D be able to outdo it? Are the outdated drivers the issue?
Wow i'm pretty shocked. I'm not sure what exactly is causing the problem since i don't play that game. I do however play AoE3, WoW, Civ4, StarCraft and all of them (other than SC obviously) are graphic intensive and play in med-high settings with no lag. I have a CD 1.83 MBP so i'm shocked that your more powerful 17" is performing so poorly. I'll run the demo on mine and try and see if i can get it working properly. You're using the latest version of bootcamp right?
I played Company of Heroes a few months ago with no issues, but I don't remember where I had the settings at.
No. The X850XT is quite a beefy graphics card. Try taking it out and having a look at it... computers may advance quickly, but they can't squeeze something that size into a MBP just yet
Basically no, the MBP shouldn't be able to out-do it.