MBP FPS/Gaming Problems in OS X

My New C2D 2.4 256mb vram MBP has been working beautifully in OS X. I was getting a solid 55-60 fps with vsync on and all settings on high in WoW up until a few days ago. About a week ago I formatted OS X and reinstalled everything. Now for the last few days I have been having some lag issues with ET:QW (game feels laggy even on low/norm graphics settings).
I noticed today when I was playing WoW my FPS was jumping gform 12-30 and hovering at 30 then jumping to 60. Im not getting consistent 60 like I always was. This is constant, even with addons turned off.
I am wondering what happened to my laptop? Is this an overheating issue (temps are around 75 as soon as the game starts, but go back down to 50s when its not gaming). There definitley is something wrong because Im not getting constant 60 and ET:QW is way too laggy for my graphics and CPU power. Could this be an OS X issue, but why would it not be there before?
Im so stressed and worried - any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!

First, are you sure you've installed all the updates for OS X? You should be on 10.5.4. If you're running an out-of-date version of OS X, you're running older video drivers.
Secondly, are you sure you're at the same location in WoW that were at when you first measured the framerates? In other words, it's easy to get 60 fps when nothing is happening on your screen. By contrast, if you're in a busy location with lots of graphical activity, frame rates will naturally be lower.
As for temperatures, no. Those temps are normal for a laptop under lots of strain. You should keep in mind that even though your MBP is brand new, it's running a video card that, essentially, is early-2007 era technology. The card in the MBP is old and dated (for a video card).

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intel makes video cards which makes games horrid
people who wish to play games on their computers get the models with amd or nvidia video chips
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I charged my battery to 100% then played Starcraft for a while and my battery was at 15% so i plugged in the charger. After about an hour i notice the indicator on the charger was green and i was thinking wow that was a fast charge, so i take a look at the battery and its at 15%. While i was playing Starcraft the battery didn't charge at all, it would go down to 14% start charging then stop charging at 15% then start charging again at 14% and it cycled like that for some time. So after i was done playing and closed out of Starcraft then the battery started charging. So battery charges only when not in starcraft. Anyone else have this problem? any solutions?

rog3a wrote:
II want gaming and I want it on a laptop, and it seems that apple cant give that to me.. I love Apple but it isnt giving me what i want ..
Get yourself a $8000 alienware gaming laptop from Dell, it will drink even more power and the battery will be dead in 30 minutes.
Laptops are designed with the right balance of performance and portability, you have to accept that or just get a desktop machine which perform about 2-3x better in games anyway. If you can't spend the money for that, then get yourself a console like a PS3 or a X-Box, both drink huge amounts of power, are basically heaters and need elaborate cooling.
Apple is shifting their entire laptop line over to integrated graphics, only the 2.2 Ghz 15" and better have the powerful 1GB Radeon 6750M for 3D gaming.
Take what you can get for as long as you can get it. It might be lame 2D games like Tetris and BubblePop here shortly.

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Intel 2G SSD? Did you remove the 'mechanical' drive for now?
There were problems in the past with Intel and with 3rd party SSDs.
What I would like you to try doing is use the mechanical drive for now for OS X if possible, and disconnect it, and with just the SSD in there (pretty hard I guess???) forget using BCA, and boot Windows 7 DVD and have at it.
Firmware on Mac's, firmware on Intel SSD...
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OS X still lacks TRIM for SSD and OS X suffers (still faster but not what it should be).
Oh, what version of Windows? you may need Windows 7, and if you bought it from school or electronic download, did you have to burn ISO to disc? That can act or behave in odd ways like this.

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Me too. mine just stopped working this morning and I have tried plugging in to serveral different apple computors in the office.
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I've had leopard installed on my MBP since Oct 27th and it's been running great, although I've noticed several times when I shut down, the machine really hadn't - I'd stick it in my briefcase only to find that the mac was on and the battery was down 50% an hour later. Searching the boards, I'm gonna assume that I have the same problem as those reporting the "screen goes black after a few minutes" problem. That's all weird enough, but last night it shifted into high gear.
I used the machine for a couple hours, nothing special, just some web browsing. I shut it down as normal. Later I came back to it and the power button did not turn it on... I then realized that the HD was still spinning. I touched a bunch of keys, worked the pad, clicked power a couple times thinking it was in some kind of weird sleep, nothing. So I held the power down long enough for a forced "off."
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No worries mate. Creeped me out pretty big, but when my Leopard DVD did the same thing upon bootup I knew the problem was weirder than what I had thought.
Glad to hear you got it all straight as well.
/p

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I am having problems getting booted playing Pirates of the caribbean online-- this has just happened recently- and I am losing my mind with their help-- any one have any problems with gaming-- I freeze and then POOF I am gone- poco1949

It is unlear what you are asking us to assist with. What model unit do you have? Check the specs of the game vs the specs of your unit for compatbility. You can go to www.microsoft.com GAME ADVISOR and it has this link to cross check your specs with identified games. Now, some games are not listed, so you may have to go to the manufacturer of that game and learn what specs are needed. Also, when online game playing check out the server access being used-private or the company.

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Can using a MB power adapter with a MBP become a problem?

I got a late 2008 Macbook here and a early 2008 Macbook Pro. I noticed that the power adapters are of different size. When I use the power adapter of the late 2008 Macbook with my early 2008 Macbook Pro, it gets quite hot which, I assume, is due to a higher power requirement of the early 2008 MBP.
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Although I cannot say for your particular combination, the general rule tends to be that a power adaptor that is lower in power rating than what was issued can run the computer or charge the battery, but not both. There are time when you need max power. It's obvious from Apple docs and reports here that the MBP can draw from both the battery and AC power under extreme workload condition. In such a case the battery would run down, something less likely to happen with the proper adaptor.
I have a pre-owned PowerBook G4 17" that should have a 65W power adaptor but came with a 45W unit. It will not start on AC power without some charge on the battery. That's the stuff you can encounter.
Did you notice that the Late 2008 Macbook Pros rate their own new forum here:
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Brand new MBP with a problem...

We just bought a 15" MBP 2.0 today for my wife and had them install an extra gig at the store. We brought it home and she immediately began downloading the updates. While downloading she was poking around with Safari. About 3/4 of the way through the updates she got a windowshade effect over her screen and a warning saying she needed to restart (we only know PowerPC's so this one was new to us). After manually restarting she got an "OSX quit unexpectedly" warning (never seen that one either!) and a kernel panic dialog. Here's the log--
Mon May 15 16:38:07 2006
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x0019CACE): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 1, Type 14=page fault), registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x71f6dc7f, CR3: 0x01630000, CR4: 0x000006a0
EAX: 0x3c2a0ac0, EBX: 0x05546280, ECX: 0x00494900, EDX: 0x0000004b
ESP: 0x71f6dc7f, EBP: 0x255f3a94, ESI: 0x0000c965, EDI: 0x0426ffc0
EFL: 0x00010212, EIP: 0x71f6dc7f, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00000010
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x255f3930 : 0x128b5e (0x3bb0bc 0x255f3954 0x131bbc 0x0)
0x255f3970 : 0x19cace (0x3c0544 0x1 0xe 0x3c02fc)
0x255f3a20 : 0x197b53 (0x255f3a34 0x255f3a94 0x71f6dc7f 0x255f0048)
0x255f3a2c : 0x71f6dc7f (0x255f0048 0x3a0010 0x10 0x10)
0x255f3a94 : 0x3c2967c3 (0x5546280 0x359c0010 0x255f0010 0x3c290010)
0x255f3ab4 : 0x3c295af9 (0x423a4c0 0x5 0x426ffc0 0x0)
0x255f3af4 : 0x3c299d2b (0x41e6b80 0x426ffc0 0x14 0x41e6380)
0x255f3b44 : 0x3c29a0b1 (0x4263d00 0x1 0x1 0x1)
0x255f3bb4 : 0x3c2923da (0x4263d00 0x1 0x425c640 0x0)
0x255f3bf4 : 0x3c29b13b (0x423ee00 0x1 0x40 0x0)
0x255f3c54 : 0x3c29cc71 (0x423ee00 0x255f3c8c 0x40 0x40)
0x255f3d24 : 0x3c29cebf (0x423ee00 0x0 0x0 0x1103)
0x255f3d54 : 0x3b8859ec (0x423ee00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
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com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTrackpad(1.4.0b3)@0x3c28c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.4.0)@0x3b882000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily(1.4.6)@0x35847000
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBUHCI(2.4.0)@0x3b903000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.4.0)@0x3b882000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.9)@0x35747000
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.4.0)@0x3b882000
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Darwin Kernel Version 8.5.2: Mon Feb 13 16:31:48 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.8.37.obj~1/RELEASE_I386
When she got it up and running the updates she was downloading hadn't installed.
So- do we worry? Do we continue with updates, and will they solve the problem? Thanks in advance!

Despite the fact that you didn't find my earlier reply helpful...... Stop press - actually fair enough as I didn't address the software update issue.
The ram is a user installable part. Apple have instructions on the website
e.g. here.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303491
You should also run the Apple Hardware Test from your install Discs. Kernel Panics are usually hardware related. If ram is faulty, it can show the fault only intermittently (which is why many people run the test in loop mode for a few hours) and so you may be saving the problem for a later and perhaps more critical juncture.
Best of luck.
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Restoring process ran smoothly and took like an hour to recover my files and applications from the external disk time machine backup and after that the new iMac had everything my old MBP used to have but the OS. So far so good.
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The iMac can recognize and attach the external HDD (iOmega 1TB), I've succesfully formated it several times, but as soon as the backup process starts it will idle after backing 200MB or so and the HDD will be abruptly disconnected.
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I already read the other related topics but my case is slightly different than those, so I will appreciate anyhelp you could provide me.

When you say you restored, what does that mean? Did you do a full restore, installing the system from the backup onto the iMac? If so, you've probably borked the system and will have to reinstall it. See:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186
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My MBP is going back to the Geniuses for a HD problem for the 3rd time tomorrow, since I bought it in July. I am confused about exactly what is happening, and I would like any advice anyone might have about salvaging any of my data.
(The first two times, I brought it in because the HD died. The first time, they told me they had replaced the HD, though they hadn't. They ran diagnostics, decided it did not need to be replaced after erasing my data, and then gave it back to me. I brought it back the next day [t died that night as I was reinstalling] and they replaced the HD in about a day.)
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This is the chronology:
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4. Does it sound like an internal hardware problem or is it really just two bum hard drives (from two different manufacturers) in a row?
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In case anyone receives a series of index problems which escalate into apparent hard drive failure and blinking question mark of doom . . .
the Geniuses fixed the computer by doing a complete wipe of my hard drive.
They said that the directory error may have existed from before my last hard drive was installed, but I am not certain how such a thing could exist.
Because it was a directory error, I lost all of my data on the hard drive, but I was able to take the machine home with me within an hour. Since the erase and reinstallation, my computer is running much, much faster, and seemingly cooler, but that may just be my relief at having a working machine back.

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Hello guys!
Not long ago I purchased MBP 15" i7 2.0Ghz model and I got problems with usb ports on that machine.
Every USB device that is connected to machine keeps disconnecting.I cant transfer any large file from external devices.
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