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Old Feb 22, 2008, 08:30 PM   #1
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Does anyone know if the program SMC fan control will work when booted into XP via Bootcamp? I am running the game Crysis and I think my Video card may be running hot as after about three hours the game slows to around 15FPS.
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Old Feb 23, 2008, 12:45 AM   #2
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SMC Fan Control is Mac Software, thus it only works when you are running the MacOS. You have to get a windows program for XP.
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Hmm strange, how could it slow down from the heat? I don't think it'll automatically underclock the video card and reduce performance.

Not sure about the issue but I doubt fan control will help.
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What you can do is use smcfancontrol in OS X. When you reboot into Windows via boot camp, the fan setting will stay.
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Old Mar 5, 2008, 08:57 AM   #5
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I found the problem - it was the 1.1 update to Crysis. I uninstalled it and the game runs fine.
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