Having trouble playing tf2 on a MBP

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exe163

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Well, I have Windows 7 on my mac. Despite that windowss runs very slowly, I can still manage to play Starcraft 2 without any major problem. But TF2 on the other hand, stutters quite a lot even though I had my settings down to the lowest. I have the early 2010 15" mbp. I played through Mass Effect 2 on it which made me wonder what exactly is the problem.
 
aside from the obvious question of why youre playing TF2 in windows, whats your specs on the mbp?
 
piscian18 said:
aside from the obvious question of why youre playing TF2 in windows, whats your specs on the mbp?
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That's a good point -- I had totally forgotten that it works natively in mac os x, and actually runs really well. My brother played on my mom's iMac for a while before we built him a gaming machine and it worked pretty smoothly (after we plugged in a real mouse -- the magic mouse is rubbish in games).
 
I had everything down to the lowest (including res).

Here's the spec.

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP582

TF2 for mac runs even slower than the windows version on the same machine. You get the idea.

I think the problem lies in the very tiny vram it has. Is there a way to get around it?
 
exe163 said:
I had everything down to the lowest (including res).

Here's the spec.

http://support.apple.com/kb/SP582

TF2 for mac runs even slower than the windows version on the same machine. You get the idea.

I think the problem lies in the very tiny vram it has. Is there a way to get around it?
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should be ok

which one?

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M graphics processor with 256MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz configurations; or 512MB of GDDR3 memory on 2.66GHz configuration


At low res you should be fine. I used to play TF2 on a Pentium centrino 1.4ghz Randeon 9700 pro laptop.

Which Cpu do you have and how much ram?
 
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Try disabling multicore rendering. Set shader version to DX9c (not the lowest). Turn off vsync.
 
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