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When will Apple and nVidia release new drivers/updates for the new SR MBP?

lag1090 said:
All of the newer games I used supported 1440x900, or I forced them into that resolution by using custom parameters. This is not an issue, as they run fine in XP under 1920x1200, a much higher resolution. As for the older games, most of them were in 1024x768, as a lot of them don't have options for custom resolutions. Even so, they still performed better at 1600x1200 under XP than 1024x768 on Vista.
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Hmm... I was just about to order Vista, but you make me unsure!!!

Anyone else got such bad exp. with Vista under Bootcamp?
 
On a similar note - I've loaded up WoW and HL2 under bootcamp in Vista and although they run great they seem to lack, I dunno, colour. It all looks a bit washed out compared to how they look on my desktop and Dell FPW2005. Is it just a colour profile thing that I need to tweak or something else? (everything looks okay when not in games).
 
iW00t said:
http://www.barefeats.com/santarosa.html

Notice the 8600 getting trounced by the 7600?
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The 7600 is the desktop version, which is faster than almost every notebook graphics card out there. But in your original comment, you didn't mention what the 8600's being compared to, so whatever I guess.

Anyway, I'm running Oblivion quite well in Vista with Bootcamp 1.3. Some resolution was sacrificed to get a ~45 framerate, but this is the 128mb version anyway. Vista gaming for now is going to be slower than XP gaming period. In time with driver updates, things will improve, but we're stuck with this for now. That said the performance difference is small unless you like to push your machine to the edge with video settings.
 
mavere said:
The 7600 is the desktop version, which is faster than almost every notebook graphics card out there. But in your original comment, you didn't mention what the 8600's being compared to, so whatever I guess.

Anyway, I'm running Oblivion quite well in Vista with Bootcamp 1.3. Some resolution was sacrificed to get a ~45 framerate, but this is the 128mb version anyway. Vista gaming for now is going to be slower than XP gaming period. In time with driver updates, things will improve, but we're stuck with this for now. That said the performance difference is small unless you like to push your machine to the edge with video settings.
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Where? How?

That is the question, where are the driver updates going to come from?

10.4.10 is the last 10.4 update, and it is still a while until Leopard.
 
yeah, i can't even have anti aliasing at 2X in wow without it dropping frame rates like mad... :(
 
Vista sux on gaming.
Why dont you guys rune those same games on XP?

I bet they un 40% faster FPS.

I'm currently playing WoW on a MBP SR 128 nvidia model.
On OSX it runs pretty well, actually better than I expected.
On XP it runs smoothier than on my desktop 7600 GT 256 with C2D.
Good luck
 
There's definitely an issue with the drivers. There are small playback problems in Final Cut Studio and Ableton Live as a result of this(I've tried on 4 different SR MBPS so it's definitely the drivers). I spoke to one of the tech guys at Apple and he agreed. Anyone experiencing problems should report them to Apple immediately, that way we'll have an update sooner rather than later.
 
lowteg said:
Quick question about this,
Using boot camp I have the option to use the nvidia drivers from their website instead of the ones that come from bootcamp? Or am I forced to use the nvidia drivers in the bootcamp package?

Thanks
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im pretty sure, people have been using ASUS 8600GT drivers for the 8600gt in the SR MBP for use with boot camping XP/Vista

they should work, they are the same graphics cards

nvidia are pretty slow on the drivers for mobile products, i think the core driver is done by them and the finalising is done by the vendor. but i dont think there should be any reason why Asus's 8600 drivers wont work.
 
senc01a said:
Vista sux on gaming.
Why dont you guys rune those same games on XP?

I bet they un 40% faster FPS.

I'm currently playing WoW on a MBP SR 128 nvidia model.
On OSX it runs pretty well, actually better than I expected.
On XP it runs smoothier than on my desktop 7600 GT 256 with C2D.
Good luck
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not the case now my man, vista is pretty close to XP in alot of popular games now. and even when it wasnt the difference wasnt 40% more like 10-20 at most
 
lag1090 said:
It ran fine on my 1.25 Ghz iMac G4, so I wouldn't doubt that it runs well on a MBP. MR's UB games wiki entry says it runs well under Rosetta.

Edit: I installed it on my MBP and it ran pretty well. I was getting anywhere between 40 and 60 FPS, which isn't so bad for a game running under Rosetta.
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Thanks for testing man, I bought it today! :D
 
lag1090 said:
Hope you enjoy the game! Perhaps we could have a multiplayer session sometime?
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I'd love to! I've been looking at it for a while, I used to me a massive AOE fan (AOE2 is one of my favourite games ever) and it wasn't until playing Rise Of Nations on my friend's PC that I realized there was something that could top it.

A multiplayer session would be cool, I'm not gonna have much of a chance to check it out until later in the week, mind if I PM you?

Anyway back on topic, new drivers, yes! :rolleyes:
 
lag1090 said:
Do you have a Santa Rosa MBP? If you do, you might have gotten one of the unaffected ones. Also, what interface are you using? I and several others have experienced the resolution limitation using DVI, and I personally am trying to use a 1920x1200 display.
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Yes, it's a 2.4 GHz SR. I'm doing DVI to VGA, which is what my TV uses.
 
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