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Retina Macbook Pro Skyrim

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Apple2000

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Turns out its great for gaming, after struggling through some driver issues.

Made a quick off-screen youtube video, showcasing 1080P Ultra Settings for Skyrim.

http://youtu.be/Zaw7bXiLRqg

Anybody try any other games on it?
 
That looks really cool man. Can you give it a try with all the high-res texture packs and add ons and stuff?
 
Melih said:
That looks really cool man. Can you give it a try with all the high-res texture packs and add ons and stuff?
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Thanks

This is with the high-res texture pack from bethesda. I will def. look into installing some mods and stuff tomorrow and see what I can get.
 
Awesome, thank you very much for posting this. :D
Skyrim is my favorite game and i was wondering on how well it runs.
I expect it to run even better wehen turning off AA.

Could you try a higher resolution with no AA to compare plox?
 
That seems pretty good to me actually. It seems like the rMBP is turning out to be a decent mid-range gaming laptop as per what I've seen so far.
 
The new fan and vent system work very well. I've played GTA IV and Skyrim on Ultra on it, monitored the temperatures, and the 650m gets temperatures lower than it's average temperature playing those demanding games thanks to it.
 
Thank you for the video!!! ;)

How is the sharpness at 1920 x 1200 and did you perhaps happen to test 1680x1050 too? How sharp is the picture at this slightly lower resolution.
I think however at 1920 x 1200 those are some pretty impressive fps for a notebook! :eek:
 
Croneberg said:
Thank you for the video!!! ;)

How is the sharpness at 1920 x 1200 and did you perhaps happen to test 1680x1050 too? How sharp is the picture at this slightly lower resolution.
I think however at 1920 x 1200 those are some pretty impressive fps for a notebook! :eek:
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Pretty identical. A bit sharper at 1080P. Both resolutions looked great.
 
What’s really fun is turning it down to high, turning AA off, and running it at full panel res. Runs surprisingly well and looks really good—the significantly higher resolution really brings out texture detail.
 
killmoms said:
What’s really fun is turning it down to high, turning AA off, and running it at full panel res. Runs surprisingly well and looks really good—the significantly higher resolution really brings out texture detail.
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2800 x 1800?? Dang!! I will have to try that.
 
why do people cry so much about the 650m? this is awesome!

it will be able to handle gaming for the traveling video / photo editor without problems.. sometimes people compare laptops to high-end gaming systems that weigh 8 kgs..
 
I tried it in OSX (I don't use Windows, and yes its possible), and I was able to get it running very playable with near ultra settings at 2880x1800... the GT 650m is a very impressive mobile GPU.
 
I have never done bootcamp. But if I did, if i just wanted it for gaming. what do you think should be my recommended partition size? 64 gigs?
 
ugp said:
What games do you plan on installing?
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probably skyrim. Diablo 3. ...stuff like that. I'm not a big PC gamer. In fact, i haven't played a pC game in 2 years. I'm more of a console gamer. But i heard that windows version works better than the OSX version.
 
Dammit Cubs said:
probably skyrim. Diablo 3. ...stuff like that. I'm not a big PC gamer. In fact, i haven't played a pC game in 2 years. I'm more of a console gamer. But i heard that windows version works better than the OSX version.
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Diablo 3 is over 10GB I believe not sure on Skyrim. But a 64GB partition should be optimal. Give you the friend to install around 5 large games at a time.
 
ugp said:
Diablo 3 is over 10GB I believe not sure on Skyrim. But a 64GB partition should be optimal. Give you the friend to install around 5 large games at a time.
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I partitioned my 256GB SSD to be 80GB for Windows 7. Skyrim was around 8.3GB I believe, when I downloaded it from Steam.
 
killmoms said:
I partitioned my 256GB SSD to be 80GB for Windows 7. Skyrim was around 8.3GB I believe, when I downloaded it from Steam.
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Okay good to know. yeah. I'm going to be getting the 256gig ssd. and I have lived with only 128SSD from my old macbook air. I don't want to waste alot of my partition in windows. I could live with 70.
 
I realise I've just dragged up an old thread, but I figured that was preferable to starting a new one on the same topic. I am having a lot of problems achieving anywhere NEAR 30 fps on anything more than 1280x800 with all settings on medium and AA/AF off. What might be the problem? The 'options' screen indicates that it's trying to use the Nvidia 650M, but I can't seem to figure out why Skyrim's performance is so much worse on my MacBook Pro (Windows 7, 2.3GHz, 16GB RAM) than other people's. Any suggestions?
 
mac1984user said:
I realise I've just dragged up an old thread, but I figured that was preferable to starting a new one on the same topic. I am having a lot of problems achieving anywhere NEAR 30 fps on anything more than 1280x800 with all settings on medium and AA/AF off. What might be the problem? The 'options' screen indicates that it's trying to use the Nvidia 650M, but I can't seem to figure out why Skyrim's performance is so much worse on my MacBook Pro (Windows 7, 2.3GHz, 16GB RAM) than other people's. Any suggestions?
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I've struggled into the exact same problem...
It seems that it has to do with some EFI Update the rMBP recently received.
Try to do a SMC Reset (Shut down rMBP, Press left Shift Button+CTRL+ALT+Power Button at the same time, wait a little bit and then start your Bootcamp or MAC Partition), it will help!
 
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