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ibook radeon 9550 drivers?

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mikey12784

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Oct 18, 2005
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do they exist? trying to make wow a bit more playable when i dont have my PC with me, right now its working, but fairly slow, just wondering if there is an update to the drivers for this ibook, as im sure the ones that are on it are very old. anybody know where i would go about getting some? thanks ;)
 
There aren't really drivers for macs. You can download ATI Displays for your ibook and play around with the settings there. You can find that on ATI's site.
 
how can there be no drivers? the code is never updated or optimized? i dont understand how that coudl work, but hey, if thats they way it is, thats the way it is i guess (glad im still with PC's for gaming)
 
o no, im not overclocking this thing, it gets way the feek too hot to start with (i think its the HDD, but still) so i was hoping for some optimized coding to help out.
 
mikey12784 said:
how can there be no drivers? the code is never updated or optimized? i dont understand how that coudl work, but hey, if thats they way it is, thats the way it is i guess (glad im still with PC's for gaming)
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There are drivers, but they are built in to the OS. These drivers get updated when the OS gets an update.
But fortunately ATi delivers also its own drivers & utilities:
ATi Displays
Also there is a software overclocking ATi util:
ATIccellerator II

Hope you get some results with these.
 
mikey12784 said:
o no, im not overclocking this thing, it gets way the feek too hot to start with (i think its the HDD, but still) so i was hoping for some optimized coding to help out.
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The drivers are usually included in the automatic software updates your mac does. They are included in the OS updates such as 10.4, 10.4.1, 10.4.2 ETC... There is new and optimized code but it updates automatically, also the biggest hog for WoW is antialiasing and terrain distance, turn those 2 completley off and it should run fine, I get 14-25 FPS on the ibook in my sig and its playable but if your one of those dude who need 30FPS+ then you can forget about using your ibook.

Damn, MacsRgr8 beat me too it, oh well ;)
 
its playable, but i am used to my fx 57 with 2 gigs of ram and 7800GTX. thanks for throwin the ati utilities my way also :)
 
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