Bootcamp question in respect to gaming (Starcraft 2 and Heroes of Newerth)
Hi, I have a 2010 Macbook Pro. Ive been playing games on it since I got it, and its gaming performance has deteriorated somewhat. Although at first it was decent, now its very obvious that the laptop is struggling to keep up with the graphics. I play Starcraft 2 and Heroes of newerth. On Heroes of Newerth I can put the settings on moderately high with few problems, but not with everything cranked up. Seeing that my 4GB ram is twice that of the system requirements Im wondering if bootcamp will help. I was also wondering if bootcamp affects my laptops performance in terms of video and graphics. The same for Starcraft 2, except I can barely run most settings on Medium with alot of the extra effects and settings off and it still gets fairly choppy during big fights. The graphics card is an Nvidia Geforce 320m. Is this something I should be asking on the Starcraft 2 and Heroes of Newerth forums?
I don't know how much help I will be. I do know that a lot depends on what version of Windows you will run on the Bootcamp partition. I used to run XP Pro SP3, which only sees a portion of the RAM, 3 gigs I think. I would assume the newer 64bit versions of Windows would work better. Good luck.
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+) how and where do I get Windows Drivers for the hardware?
+) if I install a Steamplay (i.e. both Mac and Win) game in Steam, say on the OS X, do I have to re-install on Windows, too (thus having the game installed twice, in theory)? Or does it detect the game installed already? Bonus question: anyone knows if those games run better on Lion or on Win7?
+) are there any performance-hits using Bootcamp? How about something like Parallels Desktop 7? Would I be better off if all I need Windows for is playing games (at first, anyway)?
+) as a sidequestion, anyone knows how good the 13" MacBook Air run games like Left 4 Dead, Portal, TF2, etc?
+) seeing as how the Air has rather limited HD space: does Windows use up a lot of space what with temporary file and everything? Would it - in any way - affect the OS X?
+) I know there was something else but I can't think of it now will add later
Any answer or pointers would be very welcome!
CheersHi mrowjito,
Welcome to the family.
1.) When you first setup Boot Camp on the machine you're given an option on drivers. You can download them from Apple (for your machine) and then choose to install them onto a USB drive or a CD/DVD. I've enclosed a screen shot at the end of response for reference. You mention that you have a Windows 7 (from an old PC), keep in mind that Boot Camp will only work with a fully licensed, retail/OEM version of the disc. It won't work off the "Dell disc" that came with your tower, for example.
2.) There's no communication between the Steam game library on the Mac side and the PC side. At least not yet, knowing Steam I'm sure they're trying to develop a way to make this work. Especially as we move more towards the cloud. But if you want to play TF2 in OS X and in Windows you'd need to download & install it twice. Personally with TF2, L4D2, Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft the differences across operating systems is unnoticeable. I noticed some better performance in Windows 7 with SC2 when it first came out but that driver issue was later addressed by Blizzard. I personally prefer OS X as I have all of my Skype, Ventrillo, Team Speak and other things already setup, configured and saved. Plus I use a gaming mouse and all the various keybinds and such I configured don't carry over between the OS's.
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> a) If an ABAP WebDynpro application has been developed, how could it be made available to the end user?
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Remember to re-tick all the required security options you had just un-ticked in Safari preferences. You don't need to bother about opening the cookies again.
I hope this has worked for you and my profoundest apologies if it has not. Worth a go, though!
I did see this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/message/18259935#18259935 which may be of more help, mainly the last entry by 'c2boyd'
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