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    MBP hangs when playing games in XP/Vista

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Macnoob, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. Macnoob

    Macnoob Newbie

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    I have a 2.2 Ghz MBP. I have installed HL2/CS:S/NFS Carbon/STALKER in Windows Vista using bootcamp. Problem is, the games keep crashing or hanging randomly after i have been playing them for some time. I have tried installing them in XP as well but doesnt help. I tried installing the boot camp drivers as well as the drivers from laptopvideo2go but the problem is still there.

    This hang/freeze problem hasnt occured in any other case except when playing games. I know apple wont support this issue right now as Boot Camp is still in beta, but can the problem be due to faulty hardware ? I have tried running all memory tests and RAM seems perfect.
     
    Macnoob, Jul 31, 2007
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  2. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    Does the sound go into this forever (freezing) loop? If it does, it's like my machine, so you'll have to get a new pair of Realtek audio drivers. Solved my problems...

    Just check their website, I don't have it handy, sorry...
     
    cdnalsi, Jul 31, 2007
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  3. demenion

    demenion Notebook Consultant

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    i was gaming for the first time on my MBP (warcraft 3) and I got a BSOD in Windows XP

    =/
     
    demenion, Jul 31, 2007
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  4. Macnoob

    Macnoob Newbie

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    You got it from the realtek website ?
     
    Macnoob, Jul 31, 2007
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  5. RZetlin

    RZetlin Notebook Geek

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    Sounds like:

    -Heat problems
    -RAM issues that the RAM tester didn't pick up
    -Driver issues
     
    RZetlin, Jul 31, 2007
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    zepharus Notebook Enthusiast

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    If it locks or goes unresponsive, I would call HEAT with a good degree of confidence. I bought the bytecc aluminum lap cooler. Normal temps are 36-41 , and about 55-60 under games load. Also D/L SMCfancontrol for OS X and set the fans to about 4K (stll very quiet) it helps a tremendous amount up from 2K. Rather cool if you ask me.
     
    zepharus, Aug 1, 2007
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    phaeta Newbie

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    I get a freeze too with MBP/XP and it's not just games. Changing nvidia drivers didn't help (although FPS increased). At times I've gotten a freeze not too long after logging into XP, without having started a game or doing anything else of note. I was guessing that heat had something to do with it, but there are times I can play WoW for hours w/o problems while the MBP gets hot to the touch. Setting the VMWare services (browsed my bootcamp partition in VMWare Fusion) to manual/disabled seems to have stopped the freezes, but I can't be sure.

    Specs: MBP 2.4, 2GB, 8600M GT 256MB, 160GB 5400, XP running in bootcamp on a 32GB partition.

    Also, I did some searching when the problem popped up a few weeks ago. I wasn't able to find any threads re: freezing. Perhaps a recent change (firmware/bootcamp drivers) is the culprit. I got my MBP a few weeks ago and started "fresh" w/ bootcamp 1.3. Have folks with previous versions of bootcamp experienced these problems?
     
    phaeta, Aug 1, 2007
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