MacBook Pro 15 Gaming Performance

I Just got the latest macbook pro 15 inch base model for school and I want to play some games on it. I tried playing games like Prison Architect and Civilization Beyond Earth but about a couple minutes into the games, the laptop starts to get pretty hot and the fans become alarmingly loud. Am I overreacting? Is this normal?
Will there be any damage done if the fans are constantly spinning?
Macbook pro specs:
2.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz
16GB 1600MHz memory
256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
Intel Iris Pro Graphics

Games are very resource intensive applications that will generate heat inside the MBP resulting in the fans spinning faster in order to dissipate the heat. It is a question of how much heat. Down load iStar menus:
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
When your MBP gets hot, post an image of iStat menus.
Ciao.

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MacBook Pro poor performance in relation to NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Hi All who may be having similar issues.
I am now on my third replacement custom Macbook Pro 2.66GHz with 7200rpm hardrive and 4Gb of ram, and yes am so peeved that this has happened again. I am aware of the article in the 'Inquirer' about the 'bad bumps' of the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT in these machines and realise it is not all but from the various postings and refurbished MacBook Pro's... quite a volume!
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the issue?
make sure you are on the higher performance graphics card.
simple test.. take a screen grab( of anything in safari or even of the desktop) and press fn+F11 or however you configure your keypad to go to the desktop. you may notice nothing happens.. try again.. wait. you will see a delay and the commands follow when the computer catches up.
if all my other computers i use can do the easiest of tasks why can't this? seems incredible to me!
also after installing any of the above mentioned software and beginning processing raw files(in all the programs to make sure there was no software issue) the computer becomes very hot.. i get beach balling and regular crashes.. also the fact that my computers at work seem to work amazingly well with the above software versions. To add note, all machines have up to date apple software.
In the first machine i had it got so bad the dock disappeared and spaces crashed..the track pad froze and that was it. it took forever to start up and shut down.. it appeared to work on the lower performance setting intially but over time became buggy and crashed on that side too!
these last 2 models have behaved exactly the same... all the same custom configurations i have mentioned above.But i have recognised the problem straight off and asked apple for replacements.. i am now on the third and will call them tomorrow with the same issue. I just want a machine that works smoothly and reflects the price i have paid for it.
Has anyone else experiences this? any support or advice would be deeply appreciated.. i can't keep getting dodgy Shanghi custom models!!

I read your thread Nee Kun.. and thanks, yes that is the basics of my problem, but that is just a major signal that something is seriously wrong. The screen grab is the first test to see if a new MacBook Pro computer may have this underlying issue. what i found with my first 2 models was, this issue then developed into all the other issues i have described in my original post, so its not really the screen grab i am bothered about... however annoying it is.. but the fact that these machines over time on the higher performance graphics card become disfunctional and crash periodically say every 20 min of light photography retouching and processing then there is something that is fundamentally flawed in these over priced and under tested machines. i'm not a happy bunny.
However, I have been in discussions with apple and they are listening to my issue and we are trying to resolved it, but if not... it will have to be some form of compensation as i simply cannot do any high end work on these machines that a 3yr old powerbook, 5 yr power PC imac and all all the new range of imacs and mac pro's i have access to can! it is utterly bewildering!
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Macbook Pro - horrible performance - what can I do???

Macbook Pro 15"
Late model 2010 (December)
2.66 GHz Intel Core i7
8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM
500GB HDD (437GB/37GB Mac HDD/Bootcamp)
Hi,
When I got my MBP in Dec 2010, it was very snappy running Snow Leopard.
My initial upgrade to Lion (Apple's version of MS Vista? LOL) had issues, I restored from Time Machine, but eventually got it installed. Almost immediately, the performance drastically reduced.
Eventually, I took it into Apple, they re-installed Lion from scratch (wiped the hard disk), and I did a partial restore from Time Machine. There's no guarantee I didn't regress some system files from my Time Machine backup.
The install of Mountain Lion was uneventful - the app store upgrade ran fine.
I was also getting a number of kernel panics, which were eventually isolated to (I think?) the GPU. Apple replaced the GPU under the Apple Care warrantee.
So, ever since moving off the original operating system, my MBP has had horrid performance. Some days worse than others, but lately very bad.
However, the timing could be a coincidence - I have also installed a number of third party tools (as we all do), and my HDD has 12GB out of 437GB left. At times it has had < 1GB before I copied files to an external USB drive. I don't deny my MBP could be bloated.
Sometimes when I close the laptop lid, then reopen it, the screen never recovers. 5 mins later the display is still black, and I have to cycle power. Sometimes just tabbing to a new text input field within Safari can take 30 seconds to move to the next field. Numerous other performance problems, I'm so sick of the spinning beach ball.
So, with that as background, some questions:
1) Any general advice on addressing poor performance under OS X 10.8.2?
2) Are there any *good quality* tools I can use to fix poor performance? I installed Mackeeper 2012 for about 10 minutes, before further web research convinced me to uninstall immediately. But I do like the concept, if a reputable company puts out a similar product. What about Clean My Mac???
3) Are there any tools available to test my hardware? I know Apple have them - that's how they detected the bad GPU. I'd like to run a full diagnostic check of my hardware.
(However, I also booted into Boot Camp. Windows 7 was very snappy, with the same hardware available to OS X. I suspect my problem is software related. Performance of the Boot Camp images under Parallels 8 is abysmal. Yes, I know a VM adds overhead, but Windows used to be just fine under Parallels.)
4) Or should I just take it to the Genius Bar under my Apple Care coverage? I've got 10 months left on the 3 year warrantee.
Any other advice more than welcome. Right now, I'm close to just wiping the disk and installing Windows 7 ;-). At this point, it really is unworkable, the performance is that bad. I really *want* to like my Mac and OS X, but lately I think "It Just Works" is just a bunch of marketing hype ;-).
Thanks,
Scott

Thanks for the quick reply...
1) Can I reinstall Mountain Lion from the recovery partition? I know I could with Lion; I assume the app store upgrade to Mountain Lion updates the recovery partition?
2) How do I run a hardware diagnostics on my HDD? Is there a utility that comes with Mountain Lion, or do I need to go to Apple?
3) Are there known apps that cause problems? I totally agree with your advice above - I should have thought of it lol - but it will be a PITA to implement. I can post a list of my apps if that will help. Note that the poor performance occurs even when few apps are actually active, and happens shortly after a restart.
4) How do I know what a TRUSTED app is? For example, I've got Chrome, but I've heard it has ahem "issues" on the Mac. But I don't know if that's the *cause* of the poor performance.
(Oops...ignore question #2, I'll search for how to do this...)
In short, if there is a way to shortcut these diagnostics, that would help. But yeah, I can see that what you suggest will probably what I end up doing ;-/
Thanks again,
Scott

More ram for Macbook pro gaming

I was wondering i have a 6750m 512mb and 4gb of ram, if i upgrade to 8gb will it help improve anything? will it help boost frames it stuff like call of duty ghost? or anything else i have i7 , macbook pro late 2011

Sorry, if I was paying attention I would have known that. I am always of the belief that if you do any type of gaming, especialy console ports, at least 8GB of RAM is a good number and a graphics card with 1GB of dedicated ram. Gaming asside, I consider 8GB to be a minimum these days. Apple still pushes 4GB as a jumping off point and for most people doing day to day tasks on a Mac (web browsing, word processing, etc) 4GB of ram paired with an i5 processor is sufficient. Most i7 processors are good enough for gaming, although quad core will make some difference. So to answer your question, I would think you will see some frame rate improvements by doubling your ram but the graphics card may still hinder you a bit.

MacBook Pro 15", performance, Aperture 1.1.x vs 1.5

Hello all,
thought I'd post some info about Aperture 1.5 on a MBP 15". I have seen many posts and ramblings about how the MBP 15" is somehow slow when using Aperture, especially compared to the 17" or other Intel machines.
My biggest gripes with Aperture 1.1.x have been, in order:
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I have the same setup as you, with mainly 9 and 16MB
Nikon D2H and D200 RAW files, and would agree that
there is a marked improvement. Although, being
cautious I am only testing on a small 'copy' library
with 5000 images, before going full time 1.5.
I've got about ~30.000 images in my library. Took about 40 minutes to convert on the MacBook (not Pro), where the library resides on an external FW drive. Picture browsing etc. is markedly faster than before.
I allowed the preview generating process to run overnight. It's done now.
I am not looking forward to creating previews
for 300GB libraries, but should mean that I can stop
using Portfolio.
Enjoy. But it's not as hard as it sounds. And you can keep working while it generates previews (in the background).
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Did you MacBook Pro Retina performance improve significantly with Mavericks 10.9.5?

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Adobe Application Manager was the culprit. For some reason with the XI install, Adobe Application Manager would not launch. I was able to resolve by deleting all
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Macbook pro gaming seems very sluggish

just upgraded from a Powerbook G4 15 inch... 1.25 GHZ with radeon mobility 9600 (64MB) and a gig of ram...
to a 15 inch standard 2.16 Ghz Macbook Pro.
i've tried loading a couple demo's (including doom... the one they brag about so much on the website ;)), as well as america's army.
These game ran OK-poorly on my old laptop, and i'd say they still run OK to poorly now... so *** gives? It's literally brand new. Bought it yesterday, opened it today.
with a 256mb x600 i was really expecting this to be nothin short of spectacular... i'm pretty dissapointed so far. any ideas why this could be?

I've been playing Lineage II in Windows XP mode and it runs pretty swell--although i think the graphics/processing really turns up the heat...It actually crashed after playing for a little more than an hour cos it got so hot... I dont think these macbooks were made to handle the amount of graphics & processing to run some of these games.
I'm afraid it might damage the mbp in the long run. Might have to get a dell xps or alienware for gaming which are made with more substance/practicality/functionality than style

MacBook Pro Slow Performance, Difficulty Multitasking

Hello, everyone. Thanks in advance for any help.
I have a mid-2012 Intel MacBook Pro that is very important to me. Typically, I'll have a couple of Safari windows, Mail, Evernote, Excel, Word, Calendar, Contacts, and Acrobat running at the same time on 3-4 desktops. This has been typical of my usage since I bought the computer.
For the last few months, I've noticed that it is having difficulty switching between these tasks. The gestures to switch the task on the display work fine, but I often get the working ball icon for a significant time before I can continue work in the new application. This sometimes lasts up to a minute, but is usually 10 seconds or so. I haven't noticed that a particular application causes this more than any other, and since I first noticed it, I've installed 2 or 3 different OS versions. I also ran an AHT with no results.
Anyway, since I can't point to anything other than my perception of slower performance, I figured I'd post my EtreCheck results to fish for suggestions. Does anything below look out of whack? Any suggestions for changes to improve performance?
Thanks,
Jake
Problem description:
Slow performance, difficulty switching tasks.
EtreCheck version: 2.0.6 (91)
Report generated October 28, 2014 at 8:41:46 AM PDT
Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) (Verified)
MacBook Pro - model: MacBookPro9,2
1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2-core
8 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Video Information: ℹ️
Intel HD Graphics 4000 -
HZ281H 1920 x 1200 @ 60 Hz
System Software: ℹ️
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Disk Information: ℹ️
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Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 749.30 GB (582.27 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
HL-DT-ST DVDRW GS31N
USB Information: ℹ️
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Logitech USB Receiver
Canon CanoScan
Lexmark Lexmark MS410d
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Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
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Mac App Store and identified developers
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OpenIE
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Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
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from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
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from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then take one of the actions that you're having trouble with. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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Macbook Pro, gaming, and loud fan noise!

I have just started to install some Intel-based games on my Macbook Pro, and I've noticed that the fan noise increases dramatically when playing any type of game. I realize that an increase in CPU usage will cause the computer to increase the fan speed, but do you guys experience this with all games? I love the fact that my Macbook Pro is so quiet all the time, and it bothers me that the computer sounds like it is going to "take off" whenever I play games. It almost sounds like the computer is about to explode!

it's very normal. my fan rotates at around 6200 RPM and MBP makes noise while playing UT2004. If you use headphones or subwoofers/speakers during gaming, the noise wouldn't be audible anyways. It's not like you are supposed to listen to MBP's games instead of in-game audio during playing games. Also, both ps3 and xbox360 makes noise louder than MBP during processor-intensive operations. I had a ps3 for 8 months. So I know
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Comparing Macbook Pro's Performance to Imac

Apologies if this is asked all the time. Originally, I was on the market for a video/audio editing computer. I was looking at the 20 inch Imac. I was also planning to upgrade the video ram, so I could play a few games like Diablo, WoW, and Doom 3.
However, especially with audio recording, portability would be a huge plus. And even that, not only just audio recording, but everything involving a computer. Portability would really be great.
I am just wondering how you would compare the overall perforamnce of a Macbook Pro (specifically the lower model or the middle model) to the 20 inch imac. The Macbook Pro is significantly more expensive, and if its not much better than the Macbook, maybe i should save myself a ton of money and get that.
Lastly, are there any rumors on when it will be upgraded? I mean, info on when the new Macbook Pro's would come out? I have seen these for a while, and it seems like a new one would be coming out.
Lastly, another thing that scares me in this purchase is the number of problems people seem to have with their macbook pro's.
Thanks for the help guys.

I really don't know if the iMac is faster than an MBP given that both have a similar configuration and processor speed. However, you can visit www.barefeats.com and take a look at the various benchmarks they do comparing hardware.
As for stuff posted in the Discussions keep in mind that 99 percent of posts are from users with a problem. For every one problem posted there are nine users who have no problems. What you see here is a highly skewed sampling that is not truly representative of the population of all users. I've seen users report that their Intel Mac is slower than their PowerPC Mac. In reality that's completely false. Often these comparisons are based on using old PowerPC apps that have to run in Rosetta on an Intel Mac. Rosetta emulation is about 30 percent slower than running the same application on a PowerPC. In other words they are comparing apples and oranges. I benchmarked my MBP against several PowerPC models (1 Ghz TiPB, 1.33 Ghz Quicksilver G4, and 1.5 Ghz AlPB.) The MBP was three to four times faster on average based on four different benchmarking applications.
I can't tell you when new MBPs or iMacs will appear. Only Apple knows that. Given the abounding rumors I suppose you could guess that new models may appear anytime between now and first quarter 2007, but that's pure speculation. And, Leopard (10.5) is also expected to be released in the early part of 2007.
As for buying now versus waiting. Technology changes so quickly that most computer makers bring out new models within months of releasing older models. If you keep waiting you will probably never buy anything. If you buy something today I have no doubt that a newer, better, faster, model will appear before your warranty expires. Computers and cars are not too different in this regard except that it takes a year before a newer car appears.
In any event you have to make your own decision.

Snow Leopard and Macbook Pro Battery Performance

I recently installed Snow Leopard on my 2007 Macbook Pro and now, the battery is completely shot.
It tells me that I need to service the battery and if it is not plugged into the mains, it loses power almost immediately.
Is this a common problem or am I a one off?
Really need to get this sorted.

Have you been calibrating your battery per your user manual schedule?
Apple/About This Mac/More Info/Hardware/Power/Battery Information - copy and paste the information here. _*Do not include any serial numbers.*_
my Apple Care has expired it's on my nickel....
Not necessarily. You can always call Apple Customer Relations (800) 767-2775.

Macbook Pro gaming OSX vs Bootcamp

When I launch up Minecraft on my late 2013 Macbook Pro (Nvidia Geforce GT 750m/iris pro) the frame rate starts off at a solid 100+ fps then about 10 seconds later it drops to 30 fps no lower and no higher. But when when i play minecraft on windows (Bootcamp) I get a solid 60fps all the time. Windows has no problem runing games like minecraft but when on OSX it cant get past 30fps. 2gb of GDDR5 ram should be getting 60+fps like windows.

When I launch up Minecraft on my late 2013 Macbook Pro (Nvidia Geforce GT 750m/iris pro) the frame rate starts off at a solid 100+ fps then about 10 seconds later it drops to 30 fps no lower and no higher. But when when i play minecraft on windows (Bootcamp) I get a solid 60fps all the time. Windows has no problem runing games like minecraft but when on OSX it cant get past 30fps. 2gb of GDDR5 ram should be getting 60+fps like windows.

New MacBook Pro FCPX performance

Hi all :)
Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with any of the new Retina MacBook Pros and FCPX? They have the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics cards with 1GB of VRAM ...
Many thanks,
David :)

Hi Tom,
This is what I'm dealing with at the moment... The following 2 minutes has taken the best part of an hour to render!!
That clip at the top is an optimised 1080p 50p clip which I then colour-corrected (hence why it needs re-rendering), the second line is 4 separate JPEG images (~500k each) with cross dissolves in between, and a static background JPEG (~1 MB) at the bottom. The video image is a very small insert at the top right of the frame, with the 4 JPEG images displaying like a slideshow at the bottom left of the frame.
The media is on an external FW800 7200rpm 1TB drive (80% free space), the laptop has 8GB of RAM (and ~4GB free during rendering), there are no other programs open, there is ~25% free disk space on computer hard drive (7200rpm 500GB), and the processor sits around 100% during rendering ...
Any idea why this would be taking so devastatingly long to render?
Many thanks,
David

MacBook Pro Gaming Temperatures

So I just was tired of the really hot temperatures of the MacBook Pro. I opened it up to tackle the supposed thermal grease problem. Too no suprise, there was way too much. I reapplyed some of the Artic Silver 5 and it seemed to help my temperatures from what they were. I noticed that the GPU is still running really hot. Even after the application of the AS5, this is the only temperature that didn't seem to change. While running Counter-Strike: Source, my temperatures of the GPU go as high as 87 degrees celcius. Is this normal?

HI Smadam: It may appear to be runniing too hot for the GPU. But under high load conditions, such as game play, it is not out of the ordinary for it to reach those kind of temperatures.
Stedman

MacBook Pro Airport Performance

As discussed in two threads on the iMac Core Duo forum, the Airport implementation in the iMac seems to be hurting. Apple knows about this and there is a P1 level bug report filed. This means that it must be fixed before the next release.
The other threads are
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=339752&tstart=0
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=338281&tstart=25
There may be more than one problem, but the one described results in 3 easy to detect symptoms
1) download rates are about 57% of what one would expect
2) "ping" shows 6 good pings followed by 4 bad ones, then repeats
3) the network graph in Activity Monitor shows a "sawtooth" response when transferring large files. The sawthooth has a 10 second period (which cooresponds to the ping results)
Some more data can be found at
http://www.girr.org/macstuff/networkspeed.html
The purpose of the NEW thread on the old subject is to strip off the chaff of the long old threads and pose a simple question
"Does your iMac Core Duo behave this way?"
Some folks say that their systems are working fine, others have serious troubles. If some work fine, then it isn't software. There may be a batch of "bad" ones out there (of which I apparantly have one). If the vote comes back mixed, it is probabably a hardware issue that doesn't impact every piece of hardware. If the vote is consistent, then it could be either hardware or softare.
I've asked the MacBook Pro folks to join in so please indicate your hardware as well and ALSO reply to this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=380801&tstart=0
BTW, I've fired up an AXBS as a WDS remote and wired it to the iMac and now all is well
PING 10.0.1.1 (10.0.1.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.331 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.407 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.352 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.377 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.363 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=1.386 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=1.365 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=64 time=1.375 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=64 time=1.355 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=64 time=1.357 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=10 ttl=64 time=1.360 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.1.1: icmp_seq=11 ttl=64 time=1.409 ms
- gws

Mine works fine, and I actually am getting slightly BETTER throughput. No packetloss (which is likely the cause of your throughput issues).
I'm using a Linksys WRT54G with the OpenWRT firmware and my MBP.

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