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    Question about MBP's gaming performance under BootCamp

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by dple, Jan 20, 2008.

  1. dple

    dple Notebook Enthusiast

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    If I installed XP or Vista in it and play games under BootCamp, will I have the same gaming performance as other windows based 8600M GT DDR3 laptops? say the M1530 for example. If not, how much would the performance decrease?
     
    dple, Jan 20, 2008
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  2. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    It would be exactly the same.
     
    Arquis, Jan 20, 2008
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  3. trueintentions

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    Exactly the same, depending if you have enough RAM to run the game. :)

    2GBS is a good amount, and considering RAM is pretty cheap nowadays, I'd just go for the maximum amount if you have some spare cash. :)
     
    trueintentions, Jan 20, 2008
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  4. marxs

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    you could always overclock the gpu for a bit more performance =)
     
    marxs, Jan 24, 2008
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  5. hollownail

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    Oddly enough, WoW gets better frame rates under OS X than XP. Or roughly the same. They seem to dip low in different places.
     
    hollownail, Jan 24, 2008
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    Not to hijack this thread, but I think this question is appropriate here. Is Boot Camp a boot manager, or like virtual pc?
     
    talin, Jan 24, 2008
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    I didn't notice any difference in speed with running WoW in either Mac OSX or Windows XP other than the temperature differences when in areas not overly crowded with other players. Under Mac OSX, the temperature's were roughly 6-8 degrees cooler than what was being reported in Windows.
     
    dbam987, Jan 24, 2008
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    Boot Camp just prepares a second real partition on your hard-drive and acts as an emulator for the BIOS chip that Windows runs with (Mac hardware uses the EFI chips). You essentially get native speeds when running under Boot Camp. No slowdown due to virtualization.
     
    dbam987, Jan 24, 2008
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  9. macdo

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    with wow I get the same frame rate with osx and xp
     
    macdo, Jan 24, 2008
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    Figured I'd get better performance in XP. You know... better OpenGL implementation. But I think I'm being bottlenecked by the underclocked x1600.

    which reminds me... need to find a way to overclock that. None of the normal utils recognize the card properly.
     
    hollownail, Jan 24, 2008
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  11. Ichigo

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    Well you'd get equitable performance with the 2.4Ghz MBP, anyways.
     
    Ichigo, Jan 24, 2008
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  12. talin

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    That's awesome, thanks a lot! :)
     
    talin, Jan 25, 2008
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