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2011 MBP Hard Freeze

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ahdickter

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Jun 12, 2011
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I have a 15" 2011 MBP I bought in March. Whenever I play Bad Company 2 in Windows, it freezes and the only way to fix the problem is a hard reset. It's the only game the problem occurs in. Is it my revision number of my MBP? I'm wondering if Apple will replace it for a newer revision....


Specs:
2.2ghz Core i7
1GB 6750m
750GB HDD
4GB Ram
 
ahdickter said:
I have a 15" 2011 MBP I bought in March. Whenever I play Bad Company 2 in Windows, it freezes and the only way to fix the problem is a hard reset. It's the only game the problem occurs in. Is it my revision number of my MBP? I'm wondering if Apple will replace it for a newer revision....


Specs:
2.2ghz Core i7
1GB 6750m
750GB HDD
4GB Ram
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Have you updated to the most recent version of Bootcamp via Software Update in Windows? What about Windows Update (SP1?)

Make sure you have all the updates in OS X as well.

If it's only one game, I doubt it's a bad MBP. Apple won't replace it for a problem that you're experiencing on Windows.
 
Every update is installed in Bootcamp and Lion. I went into the Apple Store and they gave me a new machine (although they were very rude about it.) But they gave me one of the same revision number. Could that be it?
 
Wow, they actually gave you a new machine because of that? I'm surprised...

Does it still happen on the new machine? And I couldn't tell ya if it has to do with a new revision. I don't know anything about new revisions of 2011 MBP's... didn't know there were any? :confused: Perhaps someone else will be able to answer that for you.

MBP's are meant to run OS X.... Bootcamp is more of a marketing gig, though it is effective because it generally runs very nicely. If it does the same thing on the new machine, I would say that there is an update needed on someone's part (MS, Apple, or the game's).
 
Freyqq said:
sounds like bad video drivers to me
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Very good possibility. Didn't even cross my mind.

When I had Bootcamp installed, I used Driver Genius to update the drivers (including the graphics driver and Intel chipset drivers, which were all pretty out of date). I noticed an overall improvement of performance (not to mention the ability to adjust graphics options on the AMD side of things through CCC, which Apple does not include by default).

I hate driver updater programs, they're really stupid and not always worth the money. Though there are ways around that ;)
 
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