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- Your Mac's Specs
- Macbook Pro - 15.4" 1680x1050 Antiglare - 2.7Ghz Quad Core i7 - 8GB RAM - 750GB 7200RPM HDD
For anyone who cares, I recently switched from a Core Duo to a Core 2 duo Macbook. They have exactly the same specs except for a 120 GB HDD vs. an 80 GB HDD. The change in fps on HL2 was very interesting.
Specs:
Blacbook
2.0 GHz Core 2 duo
120 GB HDD
64MB (shows up as 256MB on Windows (???)) integrated graphics
Average fps for the opening scene up to the departure from Barney:
CD- 25
C2D- 34
Average fps for Lost Coast
CD-18
C2D-28
Average fps for most other indoor/enclosed levels
CD-37
C2D-46
Fairly interesting eh? I didn't expect such a huge jump. I'm going to upgrade to 2GB RAM here soon so I'll repost with those benchmarks. For some reason Counter Strike Source does not have a very good average fps, I'm talking like 8. But in the test (available in the CSS menu, I get about 50. Strange Problem. Also Garry's Mod runs at about 50-60. No problems there. Although when running in Direct X level 8.1, the sky gets really glitchy. I still don't have an answer as to how to fix that except to simply run it in DX level 7 mode (add "-dxlevel 70" to the target line) Hope this helps the HL2 fans!
Trent out
Specs:
Blacbook
2.0 GHz Core 2 duo
120 GB HDD
64MB (shows up as 256MB on Windows (???)) integrated graphics
Average fps for the opening scene up to the departure from Barney:
CD- 25
C2D- 34
Average fps for Lost Coast
CD-18
C2D-28
Average fps for most other indoor/enclosed levels
CD-37
C2D-46
Fairly interesting eh? I didn't expect such a huge jump. I'm going to upgrade to 2GB RAM here soon so I'll repost with those benchmarks. For some reason Counter Strike Source does not have a very good average fps, I'm talking like 8. But in the test (available in the CSS menu, I get about 50. Strange Problem. Also Garry's Mod runs at about 50-60. No problems there. Although when running in Direct X level 8.1, the sky gets really glitchy. I still don't have an answer as to how to fix that except to simply run it in DX level 7 mode (add "-dxlevel 70" to the target line) Hope this helps the HL2 fans!
Trent out