The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    How well does MacBook Pro run this...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ksufiji, Sep 2, 2008.

  1. ksufiji

    ksufiji Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    123
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Call of Duty 4 and Team Fortress 2?

    How well are they ran with bootcamp->Vista

    Please indicate what video card you have as well....
     
    ksufiji, Sep 2, 2008
    #1
  2. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

    Reputations:
    540
    Messages:
    1,989
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    It should run fine, running in bootcamp is just like having Vista on a normal computer. It's only running 1 OS.
     
    Seshan, Sep 2, 2008
    #2
  3. pampas

    pampas Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    203
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    all MacBookPros have the same video card 8600M GT, with either 256 or 512MB. People here say no improvement because of the memory sau, basically all MBP are the same :)

    Vista runs great, like on a regular computer. The only thing that didn't work for me under Vista was the scrolling on the touchpad - crazy scrolling, not usable.. Also, right mouse click is not a double (fingers) touch, but a Ctrl+one finger. Why that, Apple is weird, I did't like that, 2-fingers click is so much easier!!!
     
    pampas, Sep 2, 2008
    #3
  4. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

    Reputations:
    540
    Messages:
    1,989
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I'm pretty sure that's because Vista doesn't have the drivers for the multi touch touch pad, so it just works like a normal one.

    But I could be wrong.
     
    Seshan, Sep 2, 2008
    #4
  5. Magimagus

    Magimagus Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    6
    Messages:
    150
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    TF2 runs fine with everything up, I have XP, but I assume it should be fine under vista too
     
    Magimagus, Sep 2, 2008
    #5
  6. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    3,661
    Messages:
    9,249
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    205
    pampas, Apple still hasn't addressed that issue in Windows, I don't know why but yeah, that will eventually be fixed I'm sure.
     
    Sam, Sep 2, 2008
    #6
  7. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

    Reputations:
    433
    Messages:
    1,605
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    They both run maxed out at 1440x900 over 30FPS.
     
    cdnalsi, Sep 2, 2008
    #7
  8. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

    Reputations:
    844
    Messages:
    1,688
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    I run both maxed out, TF2 at 1680x1050, CoD4 lower res.
     
    Arquis, Sep 2, 2008
    #8
  9. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

    Reputations:
    844
    Messages:
    1,688
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Right click = 2 fingers on track pad + press the trackpad button.
     
    Arquis, Sep 2, 2008
    #9
  10. ryank82

    ryank82 Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    59
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Yes indeed. It does however need to be activated in system preferences first. Go to Apple menu- System preferences- keyboard & mouse- trackpad- then check box that says 'secondary click' .
     
    ryank82, Sep 2, 2008
    #10
  11. dbam987

    dbam987 wicked-poster

    Reputations:
    565
    Messages:
    2,530
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    The MBP runs CoD4 nicely on medium settings (1440x900 rez). It does get very hot though on the bottom side during heavy play. Cooling is an issue with the MBP, but there's utilities out there that you can use to increase the fan speed.
     
    dbam987, Sep 3, 2008
    #11