Playing Games on MacBook
I have a Macbook 10.5.5 with:
Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
I wanna go get this game for my Mac, http://www.amazon.com/Call-Duty-4-Modern-Warfare-Mac/dp/B00134G3AS
Will the game run slow and will my laptop overheat?
Looking at the game specifications the only thing I see that might be an issue is a video card.
Spec's from the manufacturer:
System Requirements
Mac OS v10.5.4 or later
2Ghz or faster Intel Core 2 Duo processor
1GB of RAM
9GB free hard-disk space
ATI Radeon X1600 or NVIDIA GeForce FX7300 video card
128MB of VRAM
DVD drive
Mouse and keyboard
Broadband or LAN connection for multiplayer mode
Supported video cards: ATI Radeon X1600, X1900; Radeon HD 2400, 2600; NVIDIA GeForce 7300, 7600, 7800, 8600, 8800; GeForce Quadro FX 4500
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I have a MBP 13" and sometimes i like to play some games on. When I do that, I like getting it with fully charged battery, play my games by using only battery (without power source connection), and when it gets about 15% of battery I just turn it OFF and put on charge again (until battery achieve 100%).
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ThanksMacs have never been known to be good game machines. PCs are a much better option in that regard.
When using the MBP with resource intensive CPU/GPU applications such as games, it is best to use AC power if it is available. That will ensure that therte will be sufficient electrical power as may be required.
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HT1338 how to download/play games on Macbook Pro
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You can obtain games from many places: retail computer stores, the Mac App Store, or online from the developers. MacUpdate is a good source to look for software. There are also a number of sites that offer games to be played online, including Facebook.
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Why does my mid-2010 Macbook Pro suffer from huge FPS drops whenever I try to play games?
Macbook info: 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3, nVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512MB
When I play games on my Macbook Pro, such as League of Legends, Diablo III, World of Warcraft, etc., they operate well with latency of ~80ms usually and fps starting off between 30-60, but after only a couple seconds or minutes my fps drops to 5-15 and the games become unplayable and I must force quit the program. Restarting the computer helps temporarily but then it relapses.
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In terms of CPU%, games like WoW and LoL take ~50-60% of CPU while active, but activity monitor still reports ~80% idle. For disk activity, i'm not sure whether it uses optical or not, I assume i just uses the hard drive, which is brand new cus it broke down about a month ago and I had to replace it (the fans are brand new as well, so I don't think it could be build up of dust or anything inside because it was opened and cleaned so recently).
I can set all graphics setting to lowest possible and improve my fps to 20, which is still awful, and enabling vertical sync just sends it back down to 15 fps. I don't see why I should have to use lowest graphics settings anyway. It can't be out of date drivers since i have 10.9.1 running. Could the graphics card be the issue? That would suck since I can replace and upgrade RAM but not the graphics card.
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Is there any way to get more VRAM to play games on steam?
I've learned by reading other topics that I can't upgrade my graphics card on my Macbook Pro because it's soldered into the motherboard or somthing like that, but please tell me if there is any way to get more video ram by chaning some setting or upgrading something else. I'd also like to know why I only have 256MB of VRAM when I have 8GB of RAM, since I have 8GB of RAM I thought I was supposed to have 560mb of VRAM...
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Is there any way to upgrade my VRAM, so that I can play games on steam?
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Other Info:
I have a quad core i7 Processor.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH IF YOU CAN REPLY,
DylanThe only two items that a user can change on a MBP are the RAM and HDD (Retinas not included). You have what the unit came with and the only way you will be able to change that is to purchase a MBP with superior graphics
If you are very much into gaming, the I suggest A PC. They are far superior for that type of application to a MBP.
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While playing games like NFS and CounterStrike my macbook pro it does connects to the hotspot by any device either a Windows laptop, but doesn't show or connect to the server (LAN) created by windows player. Or, any other devices doesn't connects to the LAN server that i created in the Game.
Could any one help me please.Please do not post more than about 50 lines of console logs or output from an Application crash at a time. No one can make it through those.
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Letter keys are not working on MacBook Air when playing games?
Hello. I'm using 10.6.6 on my MacBook Air 2.1 (2009 model).
I've got a really strange issue when playing games (any game produces this issue). ONLY the letter keys aren't working. The rest is working - numbers, function keys, arrows, tab, enter, delete, etc. Only the keys A to Z are not working.
This happens both on native games (like Hedgewars from App Store) and ported ones (like Need for speed).
What's the issue?
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What games from the app store can i buy & play on 13" macbook air???
Hey i just got a new 6/2012 macbook air and love it.
just wanted to get some games for it.
and ive gone to the app store, but alot of the good games require certain graphics cards etc...
can anyone tell me what games i can download and play?? as its not very clear.. all it says on spec is intel 4000.
which i know is the new chip/cpu etc..
im keen on playing games like jedi outcast 2/knights of the old rep. sims. etc...Don't play any games on your MacBook Air. Use that for your seriuos endevors and just purchase a cheap Windows Samsung or Dell for $500 bucks and use that. Or pick up that Google crap Adroid with a new OS every week for $150 bucks and use that.
But keep your MacBook Air free from any garbage. -
Do playing games lower my MacBook's lifespan?
I have a MacBook Pro with Retina Display and want to know how harmful playings games are to it. Does it effect battery life? The overall speed of the machine overtime? Please let me know and if you could explain to me why it would harm my MacBook Pro or why it would not! Thanks!
These are the games I have on a portable HDD:
- Diablo III
- Starcraft II
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- The Sims 3
- Lego Harry PotterElectronics them self are NOT designed for a certain life span (poorly designed ones are). They can last many years beyond there usefullness but.....and there's a very big butt.
Shorten life span equals:
1. Heat
2. Cold
3. Over Current
3b. Under Current
4. Neutron exposure
If the electronic part i.e.. transistors, resisters, capacitors, and more are manufactured under strict processes they can literally last many many years beyond the life of the end user needs.
Apple uses what they think are the best affordable electronics in most of what they make so the end user can afford it and enjoy it for a reasonably long period.
Once upon a time buying American meant high quality and buying Japanese or Korean (known as foreign) meant buying low quality. Remember Digital Research?
Turning your computer on and off every day may shorten some components life like HDD, Fan, Power Supply, and Battery.
However playing games that increase the temperature of you computer to maximum design capacity shouldn't effect the electronics life span. If the components exceed the design temperature(s) would effect the life span. And even at exceeded temperatures there are design safety factors which could be 1% to 10% of design?
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Not possible.
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MacBook Pro heats up crazy while playing games
Hello all;
I know the heating up issue has been raised several times all over the internet. But none of the discussions has satisfied my the concerns I have with my system. So I am going to put my case a new, although I believe the answers are going to be the same as on other similar discussions.
I recently bought MacBook Pro (15 inch, 2.2 GHz, late 2011, OS X Lion) and also I am new to Mac. The system usually runs perfectly. I just have two issues:
i. Occassionally it freezes up when more then one apps are running. I have noticed this is usually when Firefox is running in the background. Also happened with Safari a couple of times.
But my main concern and query is the point no. ii (below)
ii. During the normal usuage the fans don't make a noise (even with multiple apps that are not burden on the RAM). The systems heat up is as normal as that of a PC while running on its normal situation. However, when I play games (like BioShock, Sims etc) Mac just heats up immensly and fans kick in. I have never seen/felt a computer get this hot before.
How do I fix this?u235pu239 wrote:
i. Occassionally it freezes up when more then one apps are running. I have noticed this is usually when Firefox is running in the background. Also happened with Safari a couple of times.
I know Firefox has a slight issue with the way it handles RAM, so does Chrome, it has to do with the add-ons and how the unused RAM gets returned for using for another program.
Safari might have a memory leak, it also could be now with 64 bit everyone is rushing out to grab as much RAM as they can, trying to turn their browsers into platforms.
After all, if you think about it, browsers are becoming so powerful that they can actually run software within them, so perhaps Apple is messing with Chrome and Firefox's memory so they can't grow too large and takeover? Just my thoughts.
ii. During the normal usuage the fans don't make a noise (even with multiple apps that are not burden on the RAM). The systems heat up is as normal as that of a PC while running on its normal situation. However, when I play games (like BioShock, Sims etc) Mac just heats up immensly and fans kick in. I have never seen/felt a computer get this hot before.
3D games (or anything 3D) works the graphics and if you have a dedicated video card (the 15" does, the 13" does not) then that heats up too, thus the fans go up.
CPU intensive programs will heat up the processors and the fans go up.
Mac's come with Intel processors and they come with integrated graphics which performs some graphics capability, but can't handle 3D very well at all.
So the way the Mac works with a dedicated video card is it uses the integrated graphics on the CPU for as much as it can then hands off to the dedicated video card.
What you can do is open your System Preferences > Energy Saver and turn off graphics switching, that will use your dedicated video card only, located separately from the CPU and thus concentrate less heat on one spot on the logicboard, you should have a cooler machine.
However 3D gaming will of course always heat the machine up, perhaps a lot less as your not using the integrated graphics which is lousy anyway.
Another issue is 3D games are usually produced for a specific OS version and they milk it, perhaps don't see the value of making a update that works with a new OS X version, rather concentrating efforts on the next version of the game.
So it's ideal to only run games that are designed for the OS X version your using. Which Apple changes the OS version often, now once a year with 10.8 coming out this summer, why there isn't a whole lot of 3D games for the Mac, not to mention you can't find or upgrade video card like on a Windows tower.
So with 3D games, OS stability (Windows remains the same for 10 years) AND the option to replace the video card is paramount.
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Playing Windows Games on MacBook with Windows 7/BootCamp
Hey guys,
is it possible to play windows games on mac?
For example: I want to play Battlefield 3 and I installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp. Does it work?
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Its brand new and I just have a few programs on it. And i don't want to play that game in high end graphic in UHD or something like that.
Could i play smooth?Forum and support:
Boot Camp
Apple Boot Camp Support
Boot Camp 4.0 Installation & Setup Guide OS X Lion
Boot Camp 4.0, OS X Lion Frequently asked questions
you will want Windows 7 Pro 64-bit (System Builder is fine, $139)
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To see early startup you want an Apple compliant card. To play games you may be fine or want something more, depends on game and what level of performance.
You install Apple drivers and all the normal Windows gpu and other drivers.
And Microsoft Security Essentials.
Microsoft Security Essentials
Ah, didn't you already try or install Windows? seems like you did at least try? No? -
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I've reviewed many posts sent to the BootCamp forum, looking for a solution, but it seems those problems don't affect to the Macbook PRO users.
It seems that our Video Card (the MacBook Card) it's too limited, compared with the PRO video cards (a video memory problem or something related).
Has anyone had similar problems? Have you found any solution?
Thanks.
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)the MacBook is hampered by a low-end graphics solution that relies on shared RAM instead of its own VRAM (although it has 64MB VRAM). About the only improvement you can make is to max-out your RAM to 2GB. Even then, you may not be very pleased, and many games may not work at all. Check the specs on the games to see how they handle the Intel GMA 950. Upgrading to 2GB is not cheap and (IMHO) not worth the $ just to get better gaming performance. The MacBook will never be adequate for that purpose.
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