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15" MBP no good for 3D business and gaming performance? That's what windows tells me.

duckkg5

duckkg5

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I thought this was kinda funny - I'm running Windows 7 on Parallels from my unibody MBP (2.4 ghz, 7200 rpm 320 gb hd) and I tried playing a game in Windows. It asks you to run a performance test and it came up with these results (see picture). Think there's some kind of bias against Apple somehow built-in, or does the MBP really not measure up in terms of "3D business and gaming performance?" I mean, is it really THAT bad? Or maybe it's because it's a virtual machine? Anyway, just thought it was funny.
 

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That's from inside a virtual machine. You're not going to get the correct GPU scores even with the drivers installed.
 
Looks like you're going to have to keep your piecharts and bar graphs 2D. No fancy pop-out graphs for you.
 
You know why that is right? It's because the virtualization of 7 doesn't recognise the 9400 or 9600 (don't know which your using) as just that. It says its some kind of VGA card, been a week or so, so I can't remember exactly what it calls it. Its under system hardware if you wanna look it up.
 
Ov3rlord Falc0r said:
You know why that is right? It's because the virtualization of 7 doesn't recognise the 9400 or 9600 (don't know which your using) as just that. It says its some kind of VGA card, been a week or so, so I can't remember exactly what it calls it. Its under system hardware if you wanna look it up.
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Ah that must be it. I was using the 9400 for this pic and haven't tried 9600.

BTW, I certainly don't think it's a fair test or anything; I just thought it was a funny little surprise seeing a "1.0" and not expecting it to be at the bottom of the scale.
 
You're running in a virtual environment. There's no way you're going to get any decent numbers for performance in a VM. DirectX support in parallels/Vmware is spotty at best playing games in a VM is not advised.
 
Just install windows using bootcamp and you'll have no problem playing games. You score will be higher than a 1.0 too :cool:
 
Windows 7 also gives me that exact same score under Sun VirtualBox on my uMBP 2.93 GHz C2D/9600M. As Eidorian said, a VM of any kind is a huge resource hog that's going to pull down the score. For example, Win7 reports my processor as an Intel Core 2 Duo but can only see/use one core. ;)
 
Your score will be higher in bootcamp. I have a pre-UB MBP and it has a score of 5.0 I think.

Im actually surprised you can get Left4Dead running. I always thought games were useless in a virtual environment.
 
maflynn said:
You're running in a virtual environment. There's no way you're going to get any decent numbers for performance in a VM. DirectX support in parallels/Vmware is spotty at best playing games in a VM is not advised.
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+1
 
Sehnsucht said:
Windows 7 also gives me that exact same score under Sun VirtualBox on my uMBP 2.93 GHz C2D/9600M. As Eidorian said, a VM of any kind is a huge resource hog that's going to pull down the score. For example, Win7 reports my processor as an Intel Core 2 Duo but can only see/use one core. ;)
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This is not correct.

Within the virtual machine you are not going to have complete access to all of the hardware of the video device. Even so 3D acceleration is still experimental and can't always be counted on within a VM.
 
Eidorian said:
This is not correct.

Within the virtual machine you are not going to have complete access to all of the hardware of the video device. Even so 3D acceleration is still experimental and can't always be counted on within a VM.
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Sorry, that's what I was trying to imply, but I guess "resource hog" was the best way I knew how to put it.
 
Sehnsucht said:
Windows 7 also gives me that exact same score under Sun VirtualBox on my uMBP 2.93 GHz C2D/9600M. As Eidorian said, a VM of any kind is a huge resource hog that's going to pull down the score. For example, Win7 reports my processor as an Intel Core 2 Duo but can only see/use one core. ;)
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I know in VM Fusion you can tell the virtual computer how many cores/processors that you want it to see. (ie. 1 or 2). Maybe there is a similar feature in yours. It was the button right next to the slider for how much RAM to allocate.
 
Virtual machines see the graphics cards as generic cards, so any 3-d gaming or graphic things are horrible, now if you used boot camp and tried it out, you'd probably get the highest rating
 
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