Call of Duty 4 on UNI MBP 2.53

It all depends on how important playing Windows games is... if it's really important, get a full-blown PC game player desktop machine with a 24" monitor and have fun. There are limits to most laptops regardless of whether they are Mac or Win, with performance vs. heat being the main one, IMHO.

Otherwise, see if there is a Mac version. It might take better advantage of the MBPs gpu than running Windows/Bootcamp. Most of the best games are out for Mac, from what I understand, and I think a lot of them are actually developed on Macs - or at least that's what I've read.

How about installing XP?

Somewhat related, people seem to be running COD5 with the 9600M GT fairly decent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRGDeGPPJo&fmt=18

effer said:

How about installing XP?

Somewhat related, people seem to be running COD5 with the 9600M GT fairly decent:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRGDeGPPJo&fmt=18

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Oh, yeah! I forgot about what a resource hog Vista is... good suggestion! Try XP. Should help.

Theres a video on YT of someone playing it on a uni macbook 2.4 having no problems at all, but then it wouldn't surprise me if everyone's vista on mac performance levels were different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drItRaF0iEU&feature=related

First of I'd go with Win Xp any time for games.

If that doesnt do much for you, try tunring off fps consuming details like shadows and glow.

If none of that helps, I'd check my mbp.

funny thing, I checked the forum because my CoD4 performance on Unibody 2.53 was also a bit disappointing. I am running it on OS X.

The weird thing is, when it starts to lag, I would minimize to monitor cpu usage through istat, and the cpu isnt maxed out (around 70% per core).
Also, when CoD adjust automatically to the optimal setting for my config, it sets screen resolution to 1024x768.

I thought perhaps my hardware was defective. I am also having issues with sleeping, as I find many other people do. Sometimes, it would just wake up from sleeping by itself, then try to sleep again, and wake up, repeat until I shut it down.

If you are going to game, do it in windows. I play Cod4 find under vista 64bit at 1440x900 with everything on but shadows, spec. map, and soften smoke.

Use XP or Vista trimmed down. That will minimize the OS ram hogs and maximize the performance.

There is a framerate-enhancing config for COD4 available here: http://bashandslash.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=320&Itemid=74

It does remove some eye candy, but it's set up so that you can turn it up or down on the fly, in-game.

I've used this in the PC demo version of COD4 using bootcamp with a considerable increase in framerates on a 2.4ghz MBP with the 8600GT.

I'd like to find out if the same config settings will work on the Mac version of COD4

I ran the CoD4 demo at 1440x900 with many of the settings turned up in Vista and it ran well enough for me. I didn't know about Fraps at the time so I don't have framerate numbers, but I was certainly satisfied. I can download it again tonight and see what I get.

SoybeanStasher said:

I ran the CoD4 demo at 1440x900 with many of the settings turned up in Vista and it ran well enough for me. I didn't know about Fraps at the time so I don't have framerate numbers, but I was certainly satisfied. I can download it again tonight and see what I get.

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I'm not familiar with Fraps, but you should be able to type /cg_drawfps 1 in the console to see the real-time framerate.

Hydroxs said:

If you are going to game, do it in windows. I play Cod4 find under vista 64bit at 1440x900 with everything on but shadows, spec. map, and soften smoke.

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Hah, everything on except those settings that make it look good?