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Uhr Ptrak
Minmatar Es and Whizz Hedonistic Imperative
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Posted - 2008.08.04 03:21:00 -
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For all you MBP owners, y'all should know that word is circulating about the faulty manufacturing of at least a significant portion of nvidia G84 and G86 chips. This effects more than Apple, as Dell and HP have released some statements.
Read details here
Now, what does this have to do with Eve? One word .. heat. Apparently the fault in the GPU chip is exacerbated by heat cycles leading to an early death for the chip and your MBP. My MBP is 9 months old, it died yesterday while playing Eve. Black screen, no video at all. Sometimes get the chime at boot, sometimes not, DVD spins but no screen. I usually play Eve via XP/Bootcamp. As Bootcamp drivers are awful compared to native OSX drivers, your laptop is likely to get very very hot doing anything graphics intensive, like Eve. That heat is killing your nvidia chip.
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Real Poison
Minmatar Stormlord Battleforce Vanguard.
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Posted - 2008.08.04 13:55:00 -
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well i have no idea why the "bootcamp" (you mean windows) drivers should be worse than the OSX drivers. both of them aren't made by apple, they're just drivers coming directly from nvidia (or ati for the older gen MBPs).
but yeah the problem very well affects the current gen. machines. in fact my machines gpu died 3 months ago. started with random (rare) lockups and garbled graphics over a period of some weeks. then screen stayed blank after waking it from sleep. half an hour later it worked again (for one day) just to completely die eventually.
machine was booting (you could hear the sound from adjusting sound volume, but screen stayed black and external monitor stayed dark).
repair went smoothly, took it to my local apple partner. they ordered a new "logic-board" (read mainboard). roughly 28 hours later i got a call that it was done and ready for pickup.
not to compare with my previous sony vaio that was 4 weeks away for replacing simple plastic parts and even then i just got it back after driving 100km's to pick it up from some remote repair center (techs even too dumb to reassemble the machine properly). but that's a different story and just one of the reasons why i switched to mac.
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Dr Sheepbringer
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Posted - 2008.08.04 14:11:00 -
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Well there shouldn't be too many changes when it comes to the drivers, but bootcamp drivers might not use all the little gizmos and tricks of the hardware in the MBP. It might (might) also run hotter on bootcamp due to Apple sometimes reducing the clock rates on the gfxcards to achieve some better heat ratio without sacrificing certain elements the higher end cards have (encoding support etc.). Still it running hotter is a stretch.
But drivers having performance issues on different platforms...nothing new there.
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