Gaming on new MBP - New Drivers?

I'm a bit confused as to what to do about getting new drivers.

When in Boot Camp (with XP Pro), we use Apple's drivers for the trackpad and such, right?

So would going to a site like LaptopVideo2Go and downloading the latest drivers for the 9600 help at all? Or are we relegated to using the drivers that Apple gives us?

 

You can use whatever drivers you want.

 

hm.. this sounds good.. but the apple drivers are good enough for me

i can finally play TF2 smoothly and with great quality

 

What temps are guys getting? Mine feels like its on fire! The fans go on full blast and they are loud lol! But I'm using headphones so no big deal I guess.

 

havent been able to measure it yet... but it does get warmer.. but its kind of expected..
even when its idle in windows it a little on the warmer side

 

That's true. I'll try some TF2 later...are you using external keyboard? I find it really hard to use the MBP one.

 

I would be interested to know what drivers other people are using. Under stock drivers I get like 75-78 degrees under load which I've heard is pretty average. I was thinking of grabbing 178.24 drivers. I'm a bit hesitant to grab the latest beta drivers as I've read that they break TF2 and lead to instability.

 

I'm still using stock drivers. I was going to use updated ones or w.e but I played cod4 and it was solid so I just stuck with the stock ones. If you do get other drivers tell me/us how it goes (gains? heat? etc?).

 

im having no problems with the MBP keyboard, the only thing is that sometimes i press Fn key instead of Ctrl to crouch..

apart from that, no troubles.. maybe the edges are a little sharp..

 

Oh ok ummm this is kinda unrelated but when you go back to OS X or when in turn on your computer in general do you have a "untitled" disk/drive mounted? Is it there because I have boot camp set-up?

 

yeah, i had the same problem and i just fixed it, just boot up windows, and rename your c: drive to whatever you want

im assuming you formatted in NTFS

 

Ya mine is NTFS. Thx again lol! (should I boot up windows or can I just do it in vmware?)

 

didnt try it on the vmware, it would probably work as the image is unmounted when you boot the vmware..

 

Let us know if it works in VMWare please.

 

I went into vmware change the name from "Local Disk (C: )" to "Boot Camp partition" and now (just restarted computer) instead of the "untitled" drive/image/disk its now "Boot Camp Partition" lol. I guess it didn't work...

 

So, yeah looks like 178.24 drivers actually decreased my 3dmark06 score by about 100 points to 5750. I'm thinking Apple did some internal testing and decided that stock 176.44 drivers were best. Just went back down to stock and I'm back up around 5840.

 

Did you do any gaming? Or just ran the test?

 

Just the test, but it was noticeably slower moving.

 

i just played TF2 with the game running in a window for about 3 hours (i know, waste of my time).. the temps were averaging around 72 degrees, which i think its pretty good