I have searched extensively on answers to this question and I've gotten some vague ideas of what to do, but not a direct answer.
I recently installed a copy of Windows XP on my 15in Macbook Pro (the ones that came out right before the latest ones in late September/Early October 2008 or whatever). I did this in order to play Final Fantasy XI Online on my laptop. The machine is more than capable of running the game and I've read forum posts that had said that it works fine through bootcamp. I installed the game and was playing it just fine until one day the game began to lag really bad in areas where there were a lot of people or in other words something very demanding of the memory/graphics. I don't mean internet speed lag, I mean the computer would slow the game down to a crawl and the sound would be sort of garbled like it was some sort of feedback. It would happen periodically or if some sort of animation would start (spellcasting, etc)
I've tried everything from changing the settings of the game so that it's not as demanding to installing modified drivers for the graphics card (256mb Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT). I read that there may be some problems with the graphics and sound cards communicating which causes lag?
The computer also gets unnaturally hot while I run the game/windows in general. Could it be a cooling problem?
If anyone knows why this is happening or what I can do to fix it I would really appreciate some help or suggestions on where to find help. Thank you.
Edited, Nov 9th 2008 7:02pm by PaladinEriol
Edited, Nov 9th 2008 7:03pm by PaladinEriol