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Macbook Pro 15inch 2011 ATI 6750m Game Benchmarks

adrian1480 said:
yes. 750/925.

also, I'm getting a strong suspicion that the PSU supplied with these MBP's provides insufficient power to the system. I've noticed that when I run Crysis Warhead, I actually *lose* battery power, even when plugged into the wall.

WTF? Can these MBP's not handle the GPU and CPU put under load?

(Note: I've never had any game or OS crash; only the battery charge going in and out)
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Hi,

I read in several threads that it is a common problem, if you push your Mbp, you will lose battery even with your power adapter plugged.

Regarding my experience about this: after 4 hours playing at borderlands (700/900 gpu clock), my battery dropped at 82% (it was obviously at 100% when I started playing at it)
 
So as far as I can tell no one on the interwebs (at least) has said how MineCraft runs on a 2.2ghz Macbook pro. I would like to know before I buy one. (No I am not spending 2k to play minecraft) I would like to know FPS at Fancy Graphics, Render Distance Far, or Normal, on a multiplayer server. Please let me know. Oh and smooth lighting.
Thanks
:)
 
Sumatra385 said:
So as far as I can tell no one on the interwebs (at least) has said how MineCraft runs on a 2.2ghz Macbook pro. I would like to know before I buy one. (No I am not spending 2k to play minecraft) I would like to know FPS at Fancy Graphics, Render Distance Far, or Normal, on a multiplayer server. Please let me know. Oh and smooth lighting.
Thanks
:)
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I tried Minecraft with max settings on the 2.2ghz Macbook Pro and its running pretty well ;) I didnt measure fps however. Oh and i used enhanced textures, so its probably going to run even better without those..
 
ATI Drivers for Windows 7

Hi all.

This is a great thread. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have a question that may have been answered indirectly so I need some clarification. I'll be buying a MBP at the end of the month with the better ATI card. After I install my copy of Windows 7 (using bootcamp) will I be able to use the drivers that have been posted here? The ATI set?

Some people have said they fail on installation......that the card in the MBP isn't recognized by the driver installer. Can someone please post the right link for the drivers that do work?

Do I have to do anything before I install them?

Thanks :)
 
saratoga said:
Hi all.

This is a great thread. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have a question that may have been answered indirectly so I need some clarification. I'll be buying a MBP at the end of the month with the better ATI card. After I install my copy of Windows 7 (using bootcamp) will I be able to use the drivers that have been posted here? The ATI set?

Some people have said they fail on installation......that the card in the MBP isn't recognized by the driver installer. Can someone please post the right link for the drivers that do work?

Do I have to do anything before I install them?

Thanks :)
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Your questions have been answered in this thread already, page 13, posts #314 and #318.
 
Inara said:
Hi,

I read in several threads that it is a common problem, if you push your Mbp, you will lose battery even with your power adapter plugged.

Regarding my experience about this: after 4 hours playing at borderlands (700/900 gpu clock), my battery dropped at 82% (it was obviously at 100% when I started playing at it)
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pretty disappointing. I don't know what else to say about it. While I agree it's not a problem for me per se...I still think it shouldn't be happening. Either way, I am glad that they didn't go the "throttling" route other manufacturers have gone with. I assume the next revision/die shrink will include lower power chips, for which this won't be a problem.

oh well.
 
imperialnavy said:
I tried Minecraft with max settings on the 2.2ghz Macbook Pro and its running pretty well ;) I didnt measure fps however. Oh and i used enhanced textures, so its probably going to run even better without those..
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I won't be playing Minecraft in OSX either. I will be playing under bootcamp, just because I don't want to deal with it in OSX :).If you anyone would possibly text Minecraft full settings under Windows 7 it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
:)
 
Sumatra385 said:
I won't be playing Minecraft in OSX either. I will be playing under bootcamp, just because I don't want to deal with it in OSX :).If you anyone would possibly text Minecraft full settings under Windows 7 it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
:)
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Forgot to mention : It was tested under Windows 7 ;) Full settings.
 
grahamnp said:
Thanks both of you, that would explain why the 85W magsafe isn't enough.
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Well, really, if you think that the CPU is 45W, the GPU is likely ~24W (70W just there) then you've got the RAM, and the screen. It's not hard to imagine how 85W isn't enough.

Inara said:
Hi,

I read in several threads that it is a common problem, if you push your Mbp, you will lose battery even with your power adapter plugged.

Regarding my experience about this: after 4 hours playing at borderlands (700/900 gpu clock), my battery dropped at 82% (it was obviously at 100% when I started playing at it)
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I was playing Crysis and Crysis Warhead for probably 14 hours yesterday, and my battery dropped to around 90%. Standard clocks.
 
Received mine a few days ago and finally got Bootcamp Installed. Fallout New Vegas plays flawlessly on the High (Default config), 1400x900. Didn't do much besides load up Civ5 and see how it ran in the first 10 minutes, but during that time flawless as well. SC 2 runs in Mac OSX at High Settings perfectly, never lagging, but hiccups a bit at Ultra, so there's probably some mix I can find in there.

Note, I have a 17 inch model. When playing these games at native res I have to take the details down a notch to maintain consistent FPS, but in my perception they look better at 1400x900 (or the nearest equivalent) with higher detail/textures.

A huge point for me - the heat so far is a non-issue. I'm coming from a late 2008 uMBP which would get frightenly hot during at Bootcamp games. After 2 hours of Fallout New Vegas nowhere on the chasis was more than 'warm', and in fact mostly quite cool. This compares to before, when I could barely squeeze out 45 minutes before the thing overheated and forced a shutdown. Very pleased with this upgrade so far.

Finally, the only time I notice heat is when loading up multiple flash videos in MacOSX - seems this is the one time that the processor is really taxed! Here's looking forward to HTML5 everywhere!
 
I let mine set overnight with Dragon age running. I came back next morning to see the battery has been drained to %0 lol, but everything was working fine. I have my GPU overclocked to 750/920.

By the way, is there any reliable program to control the fans on Windows? The fans seems to not be kicking higher gear when they should.
 
Rotsu said:
I let mine set overnight with Dragon age running. I came back next morning to see the battery has been drained to %0 lol, but everything was working fine. I have my GPU overclocked to 750/920.

By the way, is there any reliable program to control the fans on Windows? The fans seems to not be kicking higher gear when they should.
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I used to use smcFanControl in OS X then reboot to Windows. I don't worry about it anymore though, not so much.
 
Yesterday, i was on a LAN Party, we Played 12 Hour Call of Duty: BlackOps

1440x900
4x Anti Aliasing
Anisotropic Filtering 4x
All Settings on Ultra
GPU 770Mhz / RAM 1000Mhz

I have average 60 FPS/s, just when i Zoom on large Arrays the Frames drops down to 40 FPS/. I think this is a ATI Driver issue.

The Battery was drained to 74%.
 
My Macbook Pro 2010 runs minecraft all on max at ~97 FPS so you should be fine :p
PS: im selling my machine on ebay (or some selling site) and getting a new one :)
 
I am in the process of decding which spec 15" mac i should buy. This topic has helped a lot in deciding what specs to pick. However, i am torn between the larger, but slower, 750Gb hard drive; or the smaller, but faster, 500gb hard drive. Which drive did you guys pick? I am probably going to upgrade to an ssd in a few months once the prices start to fall.

Any response will be appreciated
 
I've been playing Rift on Win 7 (15" 2.2, no overclocking, 8GB RAM) on high settings and I tend to get between 25-30 fps. I'm sure I would get better fps if I dropped down to medium, but the game plays fine for me on high and looks really nice.
 
Should be Epic

I figure this has been replied to enough. However, lemme give you some specs on SC2. It's a demanding game, and it runs better on dual core processors mainly because dual core processors have faster individual cores that are fewer in number, and SC2 only uses 2 cores. I am using a mid 2009 mbp low end 13" model. This is, as far as gaming standards in the new world go, a terrible thing. It's a wonderful computer, just not gaming worthy in the new age. Guess what? My specs are these:

Nvidia 9400M GPU (1280x800 standard screen)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26 Ghz
4gb 1067mhz DDR3 Memory
250GB 5,400 HDD

For an example of old games, I run UT2004 and Halo at full settings, max res, 8x AA with around 30-40FPS. Totally smooth.
Starcraft 2:
Ultra Textures
Ultra Graphics, minus shaders. This means high physics, portaits, effects, animations, reflections, and that sort of thing, all minus the lighting effects.
I get dips to as low as 7 FPS on 8v8 Custom games, however in beginning games, I soar to 70fps when I'm working my mineral line. My standard gameplay FPS in a 4v4 online, on OSX running SC2 with the above settings, is a wonderful 38.

Now, let's imagine. The 15" 2011 is more powerful, verified by three facts. Okay, it's 2 years later. Big advances from Apple. Second, it's the 15", which usually contains more powerful internals. Finally, you're looking at the higher end model (assuming you're shooting for the 6750M), and therefore, this should perform significantly higher. The 2010 MBP 15" ran SC2 at High settings with a steady FPS. I would not myself be surprised if the new, High end GPU and CPU's combined of the 2011 15" could run SC2 at High/Ultra settings with good FPS at max res.

These are games I know will run well on OSX with med-high settings and good FPS with the 2011 15"
- Dragon Age 2
- Dragon Age Origins
- CoD4, CoD MW2, CoD Black Ops
- Crysis (this is impressive, ASUS and Alienwares have trouble with these)
- SC2 (discussed)
And many more. A great gaming laptop, and well-built from Apple. Probably worth the money.
 
cdrgold said:
I am in the process of decding which spec 15" mac i should buy. This topic has helped a lot in deciding what specs to pick. However, i am torn between the larger, but slower, 750Gb hard drive; or the smaller, but faster, 500gb hard drive. Which drive did you guys pick? I am probably going to upgrade to an ssd in a few months once the prices start to fall.

Any response will be appreciated
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Okay. Here's my view. It really depends on what you intend to do. The faster a disk spins, the more battery life and heat you will suck up/create. The fact that 5400 is lower than 7200 can be favoring of the 7200 to the first glance. The spinning of the hard drive basically entails how fast a computer can piece together the files you are demanding. For games and basic programs, you will not need this and you shouldn't notice a huge difference, I imagine. A computer having to make 1 stop at the HDD to pull data is, as my father tends to put it, slow for a computer, and at times, the HDD could simply take a nap while the preloaded data is put to work by the CPU and GPU. I personally think that if you intend to use it for gaming (rather than running servers and stuff like that, which is seriously impractical for notebooks) and other things, then you could use the 250gb of HDD space a lot more than 1,800 extra RPM, or 30 extra spins per second.
 
After owning one for a few weeks now, I think Steve gave us the 6750M for games and the 750 GB HDD for our Steam folders.

:D

I absolutely adore my MBP.

It is super fast, plays my games great, and the work partition I have with Win7 Pro screams (SQL 2008, Web Server and some Enterprise Apps that I sell for a living).

Everything I want in a 6 lb package.
 
Inara said:
Hi,

I read in several threads that it is a common problem, if you push your Mbp, you will lose battery even with your power adapter plugged.

Regarding my experience about this: after 4 hours playing at borderlands (700/900 gpu clock), my battery dropped at 82% (it was obviously at 100% when I started playing at it)
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This might be battery protection just like on the iphones. Although I do see that people say it's cause the power brick isn't powerful enough.

Basically, on the iphone you can encounter situation where it refuses to charge while plugged in when internal temp exceed a limit. This is to help protect the battery. The end result is the battery drains.

When you tax the CPU and GPU the inside can I think get hot enough to cause the device to stop charging and run off battery power.

As the batteries in the MBP are sealed in and supposed to last N number of years I suspect they implemented something similar. In theory they should/could allow a by pass to run system off the adaptor directly but maybe they didn't. Most likely due to complexity and cost.
 
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ARMA II, Arkham asylum

Has enyone tried ARMA II, or arkham asylum on this machine, and if you have, which settings did you use?
 
Physx

Let's say you run mafia 2 or arkham asylum on this machine, and you enable physx. Will the physx then be handled by the CPU because amd Gpu's arent supported by Nvidia? And how will the i7 handle physx?
 
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