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hey there,

 

considering a MacBook. i've seen a video of half life 2 running k-sweet on a macbook, and was wondering if anyone's tried CS : Source. playable? fps? online play ok?

 

FYI: here is HL2 on a macbook:

 

and here is CoD2 on macbook:

 

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dont order one if you plan on playing CS source. I have a black macbook with 2GB ram and CS source runs like {censored} in bootcamp. 6-12fps. Horrible. I dont know if its drivers or what, because if I load "test" levels and run the video test it runs fine.

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pogi: thats what i'd heard. very odd. have you tried the new boot camp, which was released a couple days ago? i heard it has updated drivers... i'd really appreciate if you could give it a try and report back about CS:S

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pogi: thats what i'd heard. very odd. have you tried the new boot camp, which was released a couple days ago? i heard it has updated drivers... i'd really appreciate if you could give it a try and report back about CS:S

 

 

ooh.. new drivers... what sucks is i just deleted my bootcamp partition.. oh well.. time to install windows.... again.. will get back to ya asap!

 

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.. its been installing cs: source pretty much all day.. only 26% and i'm downloading at 100+ KB/s...

 

Anyway, just for a heads up I noticed that the driver date that the new bootcamp installed is 2/24/2006, so don't get your hopes up.

 

:(

 

 

Oh.. also.. the driver version is 6.14.10.4512. On the intel website there is a download for version 6.14.10.4543. If this bootcamp doesnt work, I will try that driver next.

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Even with my Intel laptop (for windows) running windows XP, it runs like {censored}, coz the integrated graphics sucks (same thing for other new 3D games, like Need for Speed: Most Wanted).

 

If you'd like mobile gaming, hunt for those models with seperated display graphics controllers (e.g. macbook pro)

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but as pogi said, HL2 runs fine, and its the same engine, so you'd expect it to be at least reasonably close to HL2 performance.

 

I also heard that certain maps (third-party ones mostly) work fine, giving HL2-style performance. bizarre!

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munky, i think i may know why. third party maps usuallly dont have all of the high dynamic lighting that is in office and dust. i play a lot of surf maps, and i et better performance on those because of the HDR not being used. pogi, are you sure AA and HDR lighting is off?

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munky, i think i may know why. third party maps usuallly dont have all of the high dynamic lighting that is in office and dust. i play a lot of surf maps, and i et better performance on those because of the HDR not being used. pogi, are you sure AA and HDR lighting is off?

 

 

I turned off everything in the video settings / advanced tab in the options screen. Is there some other special console command to do extra stuff? I also had to load counterstrike in directx7 mode because dx9 produced a black screen.

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dont order one if you plan on playing CS source. I have a black macbook with 2GB ram and CS source runs like {censored} in bootcamp. 6-12fps. Horrible. I dont know if its drivers or what, because if I load "test" levels and run the video test it runs fine.

 

 

I have a 20" iMac Core Duo with 2GB RAM and Counter Stike Source runs great.

Tweak settings and it plays really good. And I DONT mean set everything to minimum. In fact settings are pretty high. 55-80 fps. I do have the 256MB Video card though.

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I have a 20" iMac Core Duo with 2GB RAM and Counter Stike Source runs great.

Tweak settings and it plays really good. And I DONT mean set everything to minimum. In fact settings are pretty high. 55-80 fps. I do have the 256MB Video card though.

 

They are talking about running counter-strike source on a macbook, wich has onboard graphics and is very limited to several games. They just wanted to know if it runs. Compared to a iMac, wich has a pretty good videocard. That is able to run most of the games, no wonder then :(

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i have macbook pro that runs battle field 2

 

... AMAZINGLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

and its a laptop. who would have thought. Bootcamp, Windows, and bf2.

 

i love cs, steam runs fine, cs great, but i havent got around to doing cs source.

 

just... everyone... rtfm

 

read the friggin manual..

 

when doing the boot camp stuff... its an exact science. - what ive learned

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