Starcraft 2; Poor Boot Camp performance. Help!

[shakzilla]

Hi all,

I'm bootcamping Windows 7 Professional x64 on a 2009 unibody MBP, with a 9400m.

Everywhere I've read says that performance should be a lot better in Windows versus OSX, but it seems exactly the same... SC2 sputters on medium. I installed the latest drivers from NVIDIA, and my bootcamp is up to date (3.3).

Anyone know why this is happening? Any help/input is much appreciated

 

[Wardenski]

The 9400m is not a powerful card, try lowering the settings. Windows will not make much difference in this case.

 

[And1ss]

Yep, gotta lower those graphic settings in-game.

 

[Nightarchaon]

9400m, your going to get the same performance under windows as you will under mac os, very little, stick with low settings, no shaders or effects.

I know the 8600m in my now aging MBP runs starcraft 2 as well under Lion (and now mountain lion) on medium as well as it does under win 7 in bootcamp,but the 8600m seemingly has way more ooomph than the 9400m for some reason, there is maybe, just maybe, 2fps difference between OSes in it since the last patches.

 

[shakzilla]

Thanks for the responses guys. I guess I'll just stick to the native Mac client, then. I heard the 1.5 beta is supposed to make it perform a lot better, does anyone have any experience with it? Thanks again

 

[Aldaris]

Yeah the 1.5 patch is significant in performance! Brings great hope for the expansions to come.

 

[AHDuke99]

I haven't noticed much of a change with the new patch in terms of performance but maybe it is better. I play on low settings anyway do I won't run into any problems.