I'm looking to buy MBP and play some HL2.
I've heard that
(1) The fan control is a problem when using Windows XP and HL2. Apparently they don't operate sufficiently to cool the GPU and CPU?
(2) Its just a bad idea.
Can anyone give me sound advice on this? I only plan on using XP to play HL2: Team Fortress. That's about it.
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Its perfectly fine, its just that the mbp gets hot when you go into xp, but when you play games the fans go to the max setting anyways.
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Agreed. I run HL2 on my MBP at 1920x1200 with no issues connected to my external display. Fans ramp up to full - quite noisy!
I use 163.71 drivers because the 169.01 drivers have issues with external displays at 1920x1200. Doesn't aspect correctly for whatever reason. 163.71 are also official nVidia release, too.
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2) Again, false. Totally false. I played HL2, Ep1, Ep2, Portal on max resolution (1440x900) - everything on, including AA and all that, and my fps is never lower than 30.
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Has anyone tried Ep2 and Portal in a Macbook (non-pro)? I've managed to run EP1 fine lowering some settings, but I guess EP2 might bring the GMA950 to its knees.
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I am highly skeptical that 169.0x actually makes it so high AA/AF is practical with good fps in TF2. If anyone can post a fraps demo and screenshot of their settings, please do so. I find that no AA or 2xAA, and no AF and no motion blur, is required for good TF2 performance.
Vanilla HL2 (not HL2: ep2) may be playable with high AA/AF. It's less intensive. But really, people are playing EP2 and TF2 now with that engine -
Well I don't know about HL2 (haven't tried it on my MBP yet) but Crysis certainly was much smoother and better performing when I installed the latest drivers from laptopvideo2go.
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How loud do the fans get?
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If you play with headphones on, then you dont really hear them.
yea a mbp can run 24/7, but its theres a problem with that. If you have to it plugged 24/7 then the batteries life will go down. So technically you should take out the battery if youre gonna leave it plugged in all the time. Although i hear in osx it underclocks the cpu cause the power brick isnt powerful enough.
mines plugged in a lot, and i dont know about what normal wear is. but if anything ill just get a new battery eventually.
MBP and Half Life 2
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Ramadoss29, Nov 8, 2007.