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Increase 'Display memory' - bootcamp?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tarek" data-source="post: 1309252" data-attributes="member: 68040"><p>Running Windows through Boot Camp is different than through a virtual machine. Boot Camp gives you <em>full</em> computer capabilities, therefore most games should work for you, even if a bit slow and sluggish because your system is sort of old. </p><p></p><p>Have you installed the proper Boot Camp drivers to Windows yet? I would make sure I have the latest ones. </p><p></p><p>Here's the latest driver for your graphics card (32-bit Windows): <a href="http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/35122" target="_blank">Graphics Driver - Verde 280.26 Driver - GeForce</a></p><p></p><p>By the way, not to be a party pooper, but I had an early 2008 MacBook Pro with that exact same graphics card. Around a year and a half to two years later, the card died on me and I now am supposed to get the motherboard replaced (for free) even though my original one year warranty died. So I'd run a hardware test if I were you to check if there are any errors. I'm saying that because it's a factory problem that has been common in most, if not all, GeForce 8600M GT cards, which are faulty.</p><p></p><p>You can read more about it here: <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377" target="_blank">MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/MacBookPro_video_failure.html" target="_blank">MacBook Pro (Nvidia 8600M) GPU/Video Failures</a></p><p></p><p>This is how you run a hardware test: <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509?viewlocale=en_US" target="_blank">Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test</a></p><p></p><p>Best of luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tarek, post: 1309252, member: 68040"] Running Windows through Boot Camp is different than through a virtual machine. Boot Camp gives you [I]full[/I] computer capabilities, therefore most games should work for you, even if a bit slow and sluggish because your system is sort of old. Have you installed the proper Boot Camp drivers to Windows yet? I would make sure I have the latest ones. Here's the latest driver for your graphics card (32-bit Windows): [url=http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/35122]Graphics Driver - Verde 280.26 Driver - GeForce[/url] By the way, not to be a party pooper, but I had an early 2008 MacBook Pro with that exact same graphics card. Around a year and a half to two years later, the card died on me and I now am supposed to get the motherboard replaced (for free) even though my original one year warranty died. So I'd run a hardware test if I were you to check if there are any errors. I'm saying that because it's a factory problem that has been common in most, if not all, GeForce 8600M GT cards, which are faulty. You can read more about it here: [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377]MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues[/url] [url=http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/MacBookPro_video_failure.html]MacBook Pro (Nvidia 8600M) GPU/Video Failures[/url] This is how you run a hardware test: [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509?viewlocale=en_US]Intel-based Macs: Using Apple Hardware Test[/url] Best of luck. [/QUOTE]
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