Hey guys, I am making this thread to display the current gen MBP 13-inch's gaming performance. The videos will be edited to be in the first or second post. If you would like any specific games to be tested post them here. I have almost one hundred games on Steam, so I can get through a lot. OSX and Windows games are welcome, I'll probably post the first one up tonight.
My specs are in my sig.
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FahrenheitGTI:
Crysis Warhead
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Battlefield 3 (Win 8 DP)
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Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3
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Some sort of RTS, like Starcraft II? And perhaps the latest CnC game?
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. Not feeling up for a MW2 re-hash, if someone wants to let me download it, I'm down.
And yes, I will try to do Starcraft II and a CnC game.
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Would love to see Half-Life 2, Portal 2, Crysis (1 and/or 2), Bioshock (1 and/or 2), and perhaps some open-world-style games (Mafia II, GTA IV, Just Cause 2, et al).
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Just to clear some discrepancies:
- I will use OSX and Windows 7, respectively.
- When used on Windows, I use Fraps to show the FPS.
- I show the video settings before I get into the gameplay.
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Definitely want to see STALKER: Call of Pripyat. I've been trying to find a video of that on the Macbook Pro 13 for about a year.
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I'm getting the 13 inch this week and although it's primarily for work I'll see what this babe can do.
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I am right now uploading a video on youtube of BF3 on my early 2011 MacBook Pro (Windows 8 DP)... but I forgot to show the settings... I set everything to low and AA to 1 (there is no lower option) but kept the resolution on 1280x800.. with ^ and render.drawfps 1 you can let BF3 show the FPS and so did I...
Impressive on one hand... sad on the other...
Since I am running Modded drivers on Windows 8 DP I still want to see how it would perform on Windows 7
Here you go... (the disappearing of the weapon and bodes can be "fixed" by looking down, I guess it's an issue with the limited shared ram of the HD3000 getting "too full")
Don't expect too much... it's just 90% of one round with no comment.
Greetings
Julian
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I have Warhead footage, since I could install it quickly. I am editing the footage right now, somewhat satisfactory, for what it is.
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How about Oblivion? Seems fair
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Yeah, I can do Oblivion, in fact, I was playing it the other day.
Also, I uploaded the Crysis Warhead video, but it is taking a terribly long time to process. I will post the link on the OP, and when it works, just look there. -
i am very curious to know if anyone tried warhammer 40k space marine on the macbook. and how it performs. if you do, appreciate your actual hands-on feedback. no speculation please.
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There appears to be a demo for Space Marine, I'll check it out.
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mass effect 2 please
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No Skyrim yet? tisk tisk
Its playable through Wineskin as well (with minor bugs) if you want a performance reductions, but at least you don't need Windows. Seen a Cider hack wrapper out there too now.
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Wineskin I've never heard of before.
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If someone lends me money to play these games...then I can get all of the newest titles. Also, Mass Effect 2 doesn't start up, I couldn't find a fix either. There just seems to be no support for the Intel HD 3000.
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This is fine for non-games, since fps in something like Excel is irrelevant, but for games it will always be faster to run the program naively rather than running them in a shell like Wine. -
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sorry for OT but may be I find some help here
I have a problem with Windows, my Bluetooth Keyboard makes trouble and because of that I searched for Windows driver (newer than the one that comes with Bootcamp) but wasn't able to (even find an "old" one)...
I tried google, even the search here (and landed in the year 2007) but had no success
I wanted to make a movie with Counterstrike Source in action but without a keyboard it's impossible to "play + record + be awesome"... to show some serious gaming (and the FPS)
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and an other one... here it comes... Counterstrike Source on the MBP
Counterstrike Source on a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011 (Windows 8 DP)
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and as wished: Crysis 2
Crysis 2 on a MacBook Pro 13 inc early 2011 (Windows 8 DP)
sadly the quality isn't that good this time (wrong angle + youtube =) but it's sooo much fun
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Modern Warfare 3 can run quite well on my MBP 13" 2011...i think it runs even better than MW2
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Can you film and upload with fps running (not to record, just to show the fps) pls
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I'm downloading Skyrim for anyone interested
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I am sorry but I have to move all my videos to a new account, so here are the new links (@Farenheit may be you can update the links in your video link post)
BF3
Battlefield 3 on a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011 (Windows 8 DP)
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Counterstrike Source on a MacBook Pro 13" early 2011 (Windows 8 DP)
and Crysis 2
Crysis 2 on a MacBook Pro 13 inc early 2011 (Windows 8 DP)
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Will running the games through Parallels reduce performance a lot? I cant film any games at the moment as my camera is not working.....
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what about borderlands?
MacBook Pro 13-Inch Gaming Video Thread
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