Running DDO on MacBook Pro w Boot Camp

[danbevj]

I just got a MacBook Pro 13inch, 2.3 GHz with Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory.

Has anyone tried running DDO using Boot Camp and Windows 7?

(I'm trying to see if I should exchange to
1.MacBook Pro 15 inch with Intel HD Graphics 3000 with 384MB DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory and AMD Radeon HD 6490M with 256MB GDDR5 memory
OR 2. iMac 2.5GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 with AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics processor with 512MB of GDDR5 memory

Any input from direct experience on any of these systems would be appreciated! Thanks

[Fefnir_2011]

I have one of the 2008ish 13" white Macbooks. http://support.apple.com/kb/sp5, with the 2.4 ghz processor, and 4 gigs of RAM, with a 40 gig partition for Windows 7. DDO runs.... playable on it. Mainly it's a problem with the Intel graphics card, the same problem you'll have with just about any game. I tend to idle at about 20-30 FPS in town according to ctrl+F, and between 9-12 in quests depending on the amount of spells on screen. Oddly enough, I can't manage to squeeze much more FPS out of it by fiddling with the graphics settings other than the usual, and even DDO seems to agree that i should be able to run it on max settings.

Oh, and technically you should be able to run it in Dx10 mode, but because of the Intel graphics card, you'll have to run in Dx9. You might have better luck running it than I do, though.