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Hi im new here, i have a question.

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clutchmuffin

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Im fairly new to the whole mac scene. My macbookpro is about 4 or 5 months old; thats if im keeping track of time correctly. About 2 months ago i tried bootcamp for my mac but finding out i couldn't play dawn of war 2 or call of duty 4, in being so i got rid of bootcamp finding that it is pretty pointless to me. After i read into it and did some research online, someone said sometimes people get faulty hard-drives or a technical problem, im not to computer savvy to know if i do.
So basically my question would be do you guys think my harddrive is faulty? (and a sub question if you care to try and answer :p do you think ill be able to play starcraft 2?)

Here's all my specs from battle.net, also i noticed it has a - for graphics card driver. What does that mean?
OPERATING SYSTEM:MACOS 10.6.2
CPU TYPE:INTEL(R) CORE(TM)2 DUO CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHZ
CPU SPEED (GHZ):2.55
SYSTEM MEMORY (GB):4
GRAPHICS CARD MODEL:NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400M
GRAPHICS CARD DRIVER:-
DESKTOP RESOLUTION:1280X800
HARD DISK SIZE (GB):232.566
HARD DISK FREE SPACE (GB):197.263


Thanks a lot guys, i really appreciate it. Hopefully ill become more active in these forums.
 
I've done what you should of done with Google and looked it up. I found some blog posts that say Starcraft 2 should run on the GeForce FX cards (which are low end) up to some ATI Radeon 5700 or something. The 9400M graphics you have compared favorably with the low end graphics predicted to run Starcraft 2.

You should be able to play CoD 4, I thought I saw some images of a MBP 13" and CoD 4 screenshot on the Apple website.
 
I know i thought i should be able to play cod4 too, but its very choppy and its unplayable.
 
Yeah i put the settings to the lowest possible. The problem was even in the menu when i started it up, it was soooo slow. It took me about 10 minutes to just change the settings. It was bad
 
Does it have a precision aluminium unibody enclosure, carved from a single piece of aluminium?

Or do you see any screws at the side?

Looking at the specs I'd say it's unibody.
 
I had no installed no graphics card drivers, i dont know how if i am suppose to.
Also there is not screws on the side of my labtop, its a 13inch higherend. But yes there is screws on the bottom.
 
clutchmuffin said:
How would you update your drivers, for a mac labtop?
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It's laptop.

Also, when you install Windows threw bootcamp, you have to put in your original operating system disk once you have booted into Windows. That will install all the drivers you need. And it is definitely necessary.
 
oh sorry i dont think i was clear, i uninstalled windows bootcamp because it was not useful to me. On my OSX operating system i still dont know if my drivers are installed or atleast on blizzards website it doesn't come up with anything
 
Is there a way to install drivers on your mac? or do you need to?
Also can you turn it on? I dont think my macbook pro comes with the correct graphics card drivers.
 
clutchmuffin said:
Is there a way to install drivers on your mac? or do you need to?
Also can you turn it on? I dont think my macbook pro comes with the correct graphics card drivers.
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No you don't need to manually install drivers.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Mac.
 
Perhaps your Windows OS in bootcamp was doing something in the background (downloading and installing updates or something). There is no reason why those games shouldn't play on low settings in bootcamp.

Keep in mind that to play games, you will most-likely have to run them in bootcamp.

... and no, your hard drive is not faulty
 
If there is no lag or odd crashes when in OS X, your hard drive is fine. You should use Time Machine to backup your data daily anyway, so you are covered in the worst case scenario.

For the record, you have a 13" MacBook Pro, which design is often referred to as a Unibody construction.
 
Alright thanks guys for the responses. I just thought it was weird how the blizzard application couldn't see my graphics card driver.
 
You should try Boot Camp again - if you do play games, Windows is the most covered platform.

The 9400M is capable..
 
I think ill just buy call of duty 4 on mac :)
It probably runs better on the mac version anyways huh?
 
clutchmuffin said:
I think ill just buy call of duty 4 on mac :)
It probably runs better on the mac version anyways huh?
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You have a crappy integrated video card(9400m), which is why your graphics sucks and why it's unplayable. You'd need the 15'' with the 9600gt for it to play well, no matter what drivers or updates you use on the windows side of things.
 
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