Poor Gaming on window XP

[contoursvt]

What EA game are you playing?, what resolution? Are you enabling antialiasing?

Try grabbing the lastest ATI drivers from ATI's website. Make sure you also have dot net framework installed.

Originally Posted by rs1985

I installed boot camp my Macbook pro
and thought the 256 graphic card would work well for my EA game
but when I tried to play it
it lags like hell
do I have to do anything to make the video card work well on boot camp or is it my computer's problem?
also, when I want to switch from boot camp to window with that boot camp window thing
i press option
and sometimes it just bypass that place and just go into window
which sometimes is not problem
sometimes it will just run into window without me pressing anything
or sometimes it will just go blank
i need help
did I do naything wrong ?
thanks for helping

[rs1985]

so is it those over clocking stuff ?
doesn't that kill your warrenty ?

[contoursvt]

Originally Posted by rs1985

so is it those over clocking stuff ?
doesn't that kill your warrenty ?

??? I looked back and I dont think anyone said anything about overclocking but yes overclocking could void warranty if they found out you did it.

[rs1985]

i got the 256 macbook pro
the resolution is 1280 X 1024 i think and the game is EA NHL 2007

[rs1985]

ok
i installed everything u guys told me is not working
i install my little bro's little game
car video game
it lag a bit
but can be call smooth on both mac and window around the same performance
so ya
what is the probleM???????

[Sirtovin]

I remember that EA GAMES... Has a lousy record with their PC games... when it comes to Sports... When PC, used to have Cyrix processors... out... Their games would not work at all on computers... If you had an Intel/AMD it would run fine and you would have to wait months for a patch... just to come out for the old Cyrix processors.

As for your problem rs1985, I have no idea why your computer is acting laggy with the game... A patch will probably eveuntally solve it. But I don't know.

[bubbajim]

Another thing to consider.... You are asking a very newly released game to work flawlessly on beta software.

ATI graphics on Boot Camp run quite well on Apple's hardware. Most people can say that the graphics run even slightly better on the PC side compared to the Mac side.

My suggestion would be to do the following:

- Remove the graphics drivers completely using the Add/Remove control panel.

- Reboot to the Mac side.

- Make sure you are running the latest beta version of Boot Camp (v1.1.1)

- Create the Drivers CD using the Boot Camp Assistant application.

- Reboot to Boot Camp

- Put in Drivers CD and re-install all the Apple provided drivers.

I'm not saying the latest ATI PC drivers are not as good, but when it comes to Beta software, it would be best to use the Apple provided drivers.

1GB of memory is more than enough to launch Windows XP and play a game so upgrading memory, though always a nice addition, is not required.

After all that is said and done, be sure that you have allocated enough hard drive space for your windows partition. Check your C drive to ensure you have a decent amount of space left over after your game is installed. If you are below 100MB of space you will have major issues and can be the cause of your lag.

Hope this clarifies any issues you may be having.

[irfaan]

Hi,

I am having trouble with NHL 2007 as well. I actually just deleted bootcamp off my system because that was the only reason I needed it.

I have problems not with any lag, but with VERY poor graphics quality. Like, it looks like graphics from 2000 and before.

I am running a macbook with 1gb ram, and my video card is listed as Chipset Model: GMA 950
Type: Display
Bus: Built-In
VRAM (Total): 64 MB of shared system memory

I have not installed any other drivers but what came with the latest version of bootcamp (unless something new came out in the past month).

If anyone has any solid tactics to try, I will be more than happy to try them out and let you know how it goes.

Thanks!