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    MacBook/MacBook Pro Gaming Discussion (Post your benchmarks, impressions, etc.)

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by MICHAELSD01, May 3, 2009.

  1. MICHAELSD01

    MICHAELSD01 Apple/Alienware Master

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    When I first installed Windows Vista 64-bit on my MacBook Pro, after updating some drivers, I installed Age of Conan. At first I thought that it was only going to run between low and medium settings. Medium settings ran really well, so then I bumped the settings to high, and restarted the game so all of the changes could take effect. It was still running really well. So, then I maxed out every option, except for bloom and AA. I preferred the game without bloom, anyway. It was still running smoothly. I set AA to 4x, and restarted. It wasn't running badly at all. I set back the AA to 2x, brought draw distance down, and one of the most demanding PC games out was running very close to max. For whatever reason, Vista was crashing too much and failed to boot up a lot, so I'm going to post more gaming impressions once I install the Windows 7 Release Candidate when it's released on Tuesday. You can definitely game on a MacBook Pro.

    I figure that since at least once a week somebody starts a thread asking about how games play on the MacBook and the MacBook Pro, we should start a gaming discussion about these. A lot of people use them as "gaming laptops", and there's really no reason not to. I don't know how these pull off better frame rates than laptops with similar specs (clean Windows install? higher quality hardware?), but gaming performance is surprsing.
     
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  2. Colton

    Colton Also Proudly American

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    Here's a thread I made about my HDTune and 3dMark06 on my 2.4GHz aluminum Macbook. ;) Also have some FPS in there, incase you're interested. :) In Call of Duty World at War, I hover around 40 FPS on my Macbook, with a 1088x6xx resolution and AA off. :eek: And that's in Multiplayer, but not sure about the single player campaign,

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=360543
     
    Colton, May 3, 2009
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