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MBP and Bootcamp, NEED HELP!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 638862" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Unless Apple seriously flubbed the chipset drivers, I can't imagine that would be the case. In essence, Intel Macs *are* PCs. The major differences these days are the EFI (basically the next generation of BIOS, which hasn't been adopted in the Windows world yet) and the Mac keyboard layout. That's basically it, the chipset, processor, video card, memory, it's all the same.</p><p></p><p>All Boot Camp really does is two things: </p><p></p><p>1. Preps the EFI to emulate BIOS to allow Windows to run. </p><p>2. Supplies drivers that make some of the Mac specific functionality work similarly in Windows (alternate click, special keyboard keys, etc). </p><p></p><p>So, when you're running Windows "on" Boot Camp, it's really just running natively just as it would run on any other PC. </p><p></p><p>With that said, there's really nothing else I can think of that would impact your load times. I regularly run Half Life 2/Portal/Counterstrike: Source on my machine in Boot Camp and have never had this problem.</p><p></p><p>Just to confirm that it is indeed NTFS, in Windows, open a command prompt (Start => Run, type: CMD and hit Enter). Then, type the following command:</p><p></p><p>convert c: /FS:NTFS</p><p></p><p>It should come back with "Drive C: is already NTFS". Otherwise, it will convert your drive over to NTFS in just a few minutes.</p><p></p><p>In addition, another common mistake is that during the Boot Camp driver install, Windows will warn you about "unsafe or unsigned" drivers. Many times, the user inadvertently declines the installation of one or more of the drivers and thinks they have them installed. So, you may want to run the driver install again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 638862, member: 24098"] Unless Apple seriously flubbed the chipset drivers, I can't imagine that would be the case. In essence, Intel Macs *are* PCs. The major differences these days are the EFI (basically the next generation of BIOS, which hasn't been adopted in the Windows world yet) and the Mac keyboard layout. That's basically it, the chipset, processor, video card, memory, it's all the same. All Boot Camp really does is two things: 1. Preps the EFI to emulate BIOS to allow Windows to run. 2. Supplies drivers that make some of the Mac specific functionality work similarly in Windows (alternate click, special keyboard keys, etc). So, when you're running Windows "on" Boot Camp, it's really just running natively just as it would run on any other PC. With that said, there's really nothing else I can think of that would impact your load times. I regularly run Half Life 2/Portal/Counterstrike: Source on my machine in Boot Camp and have never had this problem. Just to confirm that it is indeed NTFS, in Windows, open a command prompt (Start => Run, type: CMD and hit Enter). Then, type the following command: convert c: /FS:NTFS It should come back with "Drive C: is already NTFS". Otherwise, it will convert your drive over to NTFS in just a few minutes. In addition, another common mistake is that during the Boot Camp driver install, Windows will warn you about "unsafe or unsigned" drivers. Many times, the user inadvertently declines the installation of one or more of the drivers and thinks they have them installed. So, you may want to run the driver install again. [/QUOTE]
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