MBP 15" very hot while playing games.

I read and looked for some threads about my problem, but didn't find an answer .
I've got a MacBook Pro since Christmas 2008. I always thought, the heat is normal, but today it was extremly hot. I was playing PES09 on Vista (BootCamp). Vista uses only the 9600M GT. It's getting hot around the ESC-F4 keys. After playing about 15mins I can't even touch it between TFT and keys, because then I would get burnt or whatever. Pls help. :/

Hi and welcome to Discussions,
while Apple has developed a quite sophisticated Fan Control for OSX, the BootCamp Windows Drivers are not that good.
Have a look at SpeedFan http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php and/or InputRemapper http://www.olofsson.info/index.html?inputremapper.html to set the fan speed to a higher level and thus avoiding overheating.
Hope it helps
Stefan

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