Starcraft 2 and nVidia 320m

[henrikrox]

So ive tested the beta again also

In phase 1 of the beta i was getting good peformance in bootcamp with medium/high settings on the base macbook pro 13" 2010 model.

i dont have bootcamp anymore, and i tried it under osx. ITs ****. I mean i have everything set to low, and then its fine, if i set to medium the frames drop mid game and in battles.

I play SC2 for the multiplayer experience, then i dont want lag in battles.

Allthough it doesnt bother me much really, i play starcraft II for the micro managment, and realy dont have time to appreciate the eye candy.

And maybe some think medium is fine in osx, but i like 40-60fps, not 30

 

[aznguyen316]

hey, fortunately a blue on the forums has said that they forgot to add in precompiled shaders for OSX on this patch so hence the 10-15sec lag that's when it's loading shaders on the fly. I don't have a link, but it's on the official forums. Next patch they'll add in that to help fix performance.

 

[DesmoPilot]

hey, fortunately a blue on the forums has said that they forgot to add in precompiled shaders for OSX on this patch so hence the 10-15sec lag that's when it's loading shaders on the fly. I don't have a link, but it's on the official forums. Next patch they'll add in that to help fix performance.

How thoughtful.

 

[henrikrox]

Hey guys i just ran sc2 in w7 64bit on my macbook pro 13 2010 base model.

What do you guys use to get the most eyecandy/best fps. Its alot of settings in there, and if i choose medium it feels like it lags a bit in battles.

would appreciate some settings advices

 

[fuzzielitlpanda]

Hey guys i just ran sc2 in w7 64bit on my macbook pro 13 2010 base model.

What do you guys use to get the most eyecandy/best fps. Its alot of settings in there, and if i choose medium it feels like it lags a bit in battles.

would appreciate some settings advices

Anything that has to do with the CPU, I set on Ultra. Anything that has to do with GPU, i set on medium. I think these settings offer the most eye candy without compromising the game

 

[henrikrox]

Anything that has to do with the CPU, I set on Ultra. Anything that has to do with GPU, i set on medium. I think these settings offer the most eye candy without compromising the game

Sounds good, now if i only know which settings are for the cpu

For me now, i have everything to low, 2d portraits, and shaders/shadows on medium, so at least the games doesn't look like sc1. If i put shaders on low, the quality on the ground textures, is horrendous.

Also have texture quality on low.

I think i do care to much about fps though. Still if anyone have any good settings for the 13" please do post them.

 

[fuzzielitlpanda]

Sounds good, now if i only know which settings are for the cpu

For me now, i have everything to low, 2d portraits, and shaders/shadows on medium, so at least the games doesn't look like sc1. If i put shaders on low, the quality on the ground textures, is horrendous.

Also have texture quality on low.

I think i do care to much about fps though. Still if anyone have any good settings for the 13" please do post them.

If you hover your mouse over each option, it will tell you which ones are CPU/GPU dependent. You can then set things accordingly.

 

[aznguyen316]

Sounds good, now if i only know which settings are for the cpu

For me now, i have everything to low, 2d portraits, and shaders/shadows on medium, so at least the games doesn't look like sc1. If i put shaders on low, the quality on the ground textures, is horrendous.

Also have texture quality on low.

I think i do care to much about fps though. Still if anyone have any good settings for the 13" please do post them.

lol yeah the you have to have medium shaders and medium+ textures cuz the low is so ugly. Wait til next patch though I expect medium will play better due to addition of the pre-compiled shaders.

 

[Nova7]

Overheating

I know I can't damage it with SC1, but my OLD one would overheat when playing it. I'm worried that my NEW one will overheat constantly playing SC2.

If for some reason this happens and something gets fried in there, would this be covered under AppleCare?

if my macbook pro 13 mid 2010 is running the game at 85 degrees, would that harm the laptop's internal components? Please help

 

[aeboi]

if my macbook pro 13 mid 2010 is running the game at 85 degrees, would that harm the laptop's internal components? Please help

no, 85 is not that bad, 110 would be bad

 

[Meever]

I don't really know what level you guys play but I've noticed after some extended play that for more serious players 13" MBP might not perform well enough on the OSX side to be considered playable.

Framerate numbers claim to be within reasonable 30-40 but there's a lot of input lag. Miss rally points by a few pixels. Overshoot my worker split. I constantly find myself missing clicks when I'm in large micro battles, especially blink micro.

There's no input lag in the windows side. So no clue. I've got the latest drivers and firmware for my mouse.

 

[aeboi]

I don't really know what level you guys play but I've noticed after some extended play that for more serious players 13" MBP might not perform well enough on the OSX side to be considered playable.

Framerate numbers claim to be within reasonable 30-40 but there's a lot of input lag. Miss rally points by a few pixels. Overshoot my worker split. I constantly find myself missing clicks when I'm in large micro battles, especially blink micro.

There's no input lag in the windows side. So no clue. I've got the latest drivers and firmware for my mouse.

Not surprised, os x and gaming never went hand in hand

 

[aznguyen316]

Not surprised, os x and gaming never went hand in hand

I'm not too surprised either, I've always had issues with mice on OSX. Even with native support for both my Razer mice, it's usually too fast or too slow and games don't mirror the OS settings... annoying. Fortunately I'm not that hardcore so a missed micro or whatever won't bother me.. until I start getting really competitive. And if that becomes the case, Windows would have been my first option anyway. Come Tuesday I'll probably install it on OSX and bootcamp just to have it ready.