I've been running Skyrim on my 09 MacBookPro and It periodically freezes to load.

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regal68

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It certainly doesn't make the game unplayable but it certainly halts the experience.

I am running XP SP3. I have a dual core 2.80ghz, 4 gig of RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. I got all the drivers from bootcamp, and as near as I can tell, they are all up to date. I cannot tell if windows recognizes my integrated and discrete GPUs and for some reason under the General tab in System Properties it reads 2.72 GB of RAM. I do not know if any of that effects anything.

Switching to Low Detail setting in Skyrim doesn't change anything and I it can't really handle Ultra settings. I have modded it to use 4 GB of RAM and a few other mods that make it look as good as Ultra IMO. I have tried a few mods that should increase performance by downsizing texture resolutions and such; they haven't changed anything.

Is there anything I can do to tweak my video card? Am I better off just upgrading to W7 because they have better driver support? Should I upgrade to 8 GB of RAM if I'm going to W7? Is there any mods to help?

Thanks
 
speedyink said:
How bad is it? Is it just in menus or is it throughout the whole game?
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Oh no menus dont lag at all. And load times when entering buildings is very quick to (5s or less). Just when I'm walking around Skyrim after traveling a certain distance it just freezes to load. I've been told the bootcamp drivers for xp are pretty bad.
 
Noahr55 said:
you are using a macbook pro 2009 that is why
i have one and can barely play minecraft
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Lol but it handles Half Life 2, TF2, and Portal at max settings, Runescape, WoW, Oblivion, and Morrowind all maxed out (HL2 and Portal I play on my OSX partition though).
 
regal68 said:
Lol but it handles Half Life 2, TF2, and Portal at max settings, Runescape, WoW, Oblivion, and Morrowind all maxed out (HL2 and Portal I play on my OSX partition though).
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Not that I'm agreeing with him but...all of those games are several years old....
 
Troncoso said:
Not that I'm agreeing with him but...all of those games are several years old....
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Yes I realize that, but I would not say skyrim's graphics are that much better than Oblivion or HL2. I would think if I could max those, I could at least play Skyrim smoothly on a lower setting.
 
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