my macbook and racing games?

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I have a macbook and am wanting to run bootcamp to play rfactor, live for speed, and all the other sim racers for the pc. My question is, do you think my macbook can handle the games well, running windows on it?
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
graphics: GMA X3100
memory: 2 gigs ram

I would love to play all of the great racing sims, but I just can't justify buying another computer, just for racing. I have already put so much cash into my racing setup, (g25, playseat, and pre ordered the 911 turbo s clubsport) that anymore would make my wife sick. Figuring out a way to get these games to run on one of my macs would be great. If anyone else is playing these on a mac with bootcamp, please let me know how well their working.
 
Live for Speed is pretty light on resources and my MacBook can do N64 emulation, so I'd definitely give it a shot.
 
Jackington
Live For Speed runs on my iMac very smoothly. It should do just fine on your Macbook.
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iMacs have dedicated graphics cards though.

LFS should be fine, like others have said. I could play it decently with my old Compaq with a 1.2Ghz Athlon and Radeon 9200 card. I wouldn't expect any of the more detailed sims to do well, though.
 
Yeah, it'll be fine with LFS and rFactor. Just don't expect it to handle much beyond GTA SA without any issues. I haven't tried LFS in Bootcamp yet, but everything else I've tried runs just fine. Essentially, once it's booted in Windows you can pretty much ignore the 'Mac' bit of MacBook - it'll perform just like a Windows PC with the same hardware.
 
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Anyone running LFS on a MacBook Pro 2.4 Dual? Bootcamp or CrossOver? I would be interested in a FPS comparison. I am using CrossOver Games 8.0 and it works fine, it's just that the FPS are a bit too low for my hardware I think…

Got like low thirties in worst case (end of a starting grid) and won't go much above 50 FPS. Playable, but not entirely satyisfying. (The performance, not LFS! LFS is great.)
 
Mr. Apex
Reviving this old thread …

Anyone running LFS on a MacBook Pro 2.4 Dual? Bootcamp or CrossOver? I would be interested in a FPS comparison. I am using CrossOver Games 8.0 and it works fine, it's just that the FPS are a bit too low for my hardware I think…

Got like low thirties in worst case (end of a starting grid) and won't go much above 50 FPS. Playable, but not entirely satyisfying. (The performance, not LFS! LFS is great.)
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I'm unable to test it at the moment, but I doubt there'd be any significant performance difference. Though any difference in performance would probably be in Bootcamp's favor.
 
yaywalter
I'm unable to test it at the moment, but I doubt there'd be any significant performance difference. Though any difference in performance would probably be in Bootcamp's favor.
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Thanks for your responses.

But well, when you take a look at the unofficial benchmark performance list http://lfsbench.iron.eu.org you find that there are people running LFS on a slower CPU on Vista (!), with my graphics card and with FRAPS, and they get between 70 and 125 FPS.

I'd call that a significant performance difference. Would hate to have Bootcamp on my MBP, but I'm starting to consider it.
 

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