Bad Gaming Performance in Macbook Pro 15" Early 2011

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I a few months ago purchased a Macbook Pro 15" version early 2011. I trying a few fairly old games but performance sucks. For example a 2009 game Bioshock (an original genuine copy of Mac version) even in lowest graphics does not run smoothly, lags time to time and makes the notebook heat like ****.

Do you think guys, there's something wrong with my computer or is this normal for macbook?..
 
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Intel Core i7 2.0 GHz, 4GB RAM
Re: gaming performance

I think there may be something wrong with your computer, as i have no problem running games like wow, nfs most wanted and civ 5 on the 15''. I have the lower end 2.0i7 model. I also have windows installed and am playing COD-mw3, bf3 and swtor, they're running pretty well...bf3 was barely playable though...their low settings looks high enough..I think I finished crysis 2 and saints row the third without any problems, but with the medium settings...

Why dont you try playing a full hd movie and see if the video lags? If it does then send it back to apple for maintenance,..

regards
 
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Question on the GPU drivers. I have always installed the latest drivers manually on a PC, do the GPU drivers on a MacBook update themselves via the updater?
 
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Silver M1 iMac 512/16/8/8 macOS 11.6
Graphic card upgrades are part of Apple's system software updates.

Any AV software or MacKeeper or such installed? Plenty of free space on the hard drive?
 

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MBP 2.3 Ghz 4GB RAM 860 GB SSD, iMac 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7 32GB RAM, Fusion Drive 1TB
Full specs on the MBP would help too.
 

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