Just a quick question, looking to run some sports titles and COH2 but would need bootcamp. How are you finding it? Any tips for GPU driver version?
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So just wanted to say - holy cow does ThrottleStop make a difference! With D2 in boot camp, I was having a ton of problems with overheating, frame drops, etc. Blue/red drivers did not make a difference. But, I installed throttlestop and all I did was disable turbo boosting, and suddenly I can sustain 60 fps in almost any situation, with higher render resolution! The CPU was definitely starving the GPU, and I've seen no adverse effects from leaving it at base 2.3 GHz. This makes me happy 
So just wanted to say - holy cow does ThrottleStop make a difference! With D2 in boot camp, I was having a ton of problems with overheating, frame drops, etc. Blue/red drivers did not make a difference. But, I installed throttlestop and all I did was disable turbo boosting, and suddenly I can sustain 60 fps in almost any situation, with higher render resolution! The CPU was definitely starving the GPU, and I've seen no adverse effects from leaving it at base 2.3 GHz. This makes me happy
what resolution your using and at what settings in D2?
What's D2? I saw a pretty big difference with red drivers vs blue. I can game in 4K in my favorites.
Native resolution, 70% render resolution, mostly medium settings, and 100 FOV.
Destiny 2. It's got a rather old codebase and it relies much more heavily on the CPU than the GPU, which is why it's one of the few modern FPS shooters on consoles to still be locked at 30 FPS. By limiting how hard it could pummel the CPU, I think it's preventing thermal throttling and leading to overall a much better experience.
I installed the blue edition drivers yesterday and got it working with Warzone.
However it says the blue drivers are best for mbp 16, but have anyone tried both and which is really the best for 16"?
However it says the blue drivers are best for mbp 16, but have anyone tried both and which is really the best for 16"?
So question for you Boot Camp gamers... have you found any way to remap or use the fn key? I wanted to remap it as "control" so that I could use it for crouching, but normal keyboard utilities don't seem to recognize that key. My only other option is to use caps lock instead, which isn't terrible, but may lead to me sounding a little more aggressive than I mean to in game chat sometimes!
I don't understand how disabling the turbo wouldn't result in major performance loss. For instance SolidWorks for CAD recommends a minimum of 3.3GHz.
Most games aren't very CPU dependent. The GPU tends to be the bottleneck. If the game can run well at 2.3Ghz then there's no harm in getting rid of turbo. It'll result in cooler temps and let the GPU really shine.
Tried both, can't really find a difference. Running red now, since the radeon software gives you some tweaks.
Hello all,
I am due to take delivery of a MacBook Pro 16” i9 with no upgrades as I got an excellent discount in the UK Edustore (unfortunately upgrading the graphics to 8GB would have cost x4 what it does buying direct from Apple!). I love playing World of Tanks, and some flight sims as well as the likes of Civ VI, and my 2015 iMac was struggling a bit so last year I bought a Dell G3 15'' with i7-9750H, GTX1650, 32GB RAM, 128gb SSD, 1TB HD for a bit of gaming.
Would my new MacBook, via Bootcamp, allow me to move the Dell on? Part of me thinks that although perhaps overkill in terms of having two large laptops, it might be better to chill and keep the MBP for pure Mac OS loveliness?
Any thoughts, opinions, advice appreciated! I have a wife who is at the end of her tether with the amount of ‘tech’ in the household and I can’t pretend the MBP is a work machine as she’ll be in when it’s delivered!
I am due to take delivery of a MacBook Pro 16” i9 with no upgrades as I got an excellent discount in the UK Edustore (unfortunately upgrading the graphics to 8GB would have cost x4 what it does buying direct from Apple!). I love playing World of Tanks, and some flight sims as well as the likes of Civ VI, and my 2015 iMac was struggling a bit so last year I bought a Dell G3 15'' with i7-9750H, GTX1650, 32GB RAM, 128gb SSD, 1TB HD for a bit of gaming.
Would my new MacBook, via Bootcamp, allow me to move the Dell on? Part of me thinks that although perhaps overkill in terms of having two large laptops, it might be better to chill and keep the MBP for pure Mac OS loveliness?
Any thoughts, opinions, advice appreciated! I have a wife who is at the end of her tether with the amount of ‘tech’ in the household and I can’t pretend the MBP is a work machine as she’ll be in when it’s delivered!
You have a webpage that let you compare GFX cards, just google 5500m vs gtx1650. However I think they are quite in the same performace range. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
I run Warzone on medium/medium-high settings with 5500m 4gb with average of 90 fps so it is a decent card for gaming.
So yes I think you can move the Dell on.
Feels great to boot in MacOS when you go for some more work tasks. And then boot into windows when you want to game. Instead of having two different machines and plug in everything etc.
I've installed Windows and FIFA 20 yesterday (MBP 16, base model).
I defined the following game settings: 1920x1080, low, lock to 60fps, MSAA: 2x (I prefer using low settings, I don't want to harm the machine too much). It worked fine for me.
I monitored the CPU and GPU temperatures: CPU 78-90c (most of the time around 83-85), GPU 75-85c.
What do you think about the performance? Is it safe? Is there is something I can do in order to improve the temperatures?
I defined the following game settings: 1920x1080, low, lock to 60fps, MSAA: 2x (I prefer using low settings, I don't want to harm the machine too much). It worked fine for me.
I monitored the CPU and GPU temperatures: CPU 78-90c (most of the time around 83-85), GPU 75-85c.
What do you think about the performance? Is it safe? Is there is something I can do in order to improve the temperatures?
You can install Throttlestop and limit the power to the CPU. That gives more headroom to the GPU temps so it does not throttle.
How it's gonna affect the game performance?
Moreover, what are the proper values for the CPU & GPU temps?
will that work on MBPs? I vaguely recall that it wouldn't work due to the cpu being locked down in the EFI or something along those lines.
It works, forgot to say that it is when windows/bootcamp is running.
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Depends if the game is using mostly GPU you are fine. If it is CPU heavy (like Counter Strike) best to not limit CPU
There's a lot more to CPU performance than just plain clock speed. I could try to run SolidWorks on a 3.3 GHz Pentium 4 and I bet it wouldn't run so well 😂
There's some stuff like undervolting that's locked, but adjusting the TDP limits still works in windows at least.
I can confirm that disabling turbo boost works in windows too, I watched the CPU in task manager after doing it and it was stuck right at 2.29 ghz no matter what I did.
Just gamed in MacOS via Steam and extremely impressed on how well it runs. The fans run fast. Should I install a program to manage the fans/heat?
Thinking of putting windows on To do a little game: what programs are recommended to look after the Mac in relation to damage, I.e heat?
Thinking of putting windows on To do a little game: what programs are recommended to look after the Mac in relation to damage, I.e heat?