Playing Counter Strike Source on Macbook Pro Unibody crashes constantly

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Playing Counter Strike Source on Macbook Pro Unibody crashes constantly

I'm running Macbook pro with the 2.8 ghz processors and 320gb 7200rpm I've boot camped my mac with a xp 32bit cd installed all the drivers from the mac os cd then installed the rest of the drivers and updates from windows update then once that was finished i went to apple.com and downloaded bootcamp 2.1 update for xp. installed steam then bought and downloaded CS. I'll load up counter strike and i turned all the visual effects to as low as they go the resolution is not high same as the ratio which is set at normal.I'll be playing counter strike and within 10 seconds of joining a server to about 4-5 minutes my computer screen will go black sounds will repeat like it froze then i have to hold the power button. At first i thought it was the laptop overheating. XP runs the fans at full speed and my laptop is sat on top of a laptop cooler with 2 fans spinning at 2000rpm. I didn't think this was enough so i put a pretty powerful house fan up next to my computer and put it on full blast. The unibody didn't even get warm it was so good at cooling 🙂 but yet again 2 minutes playing CS I crashed again. Can anyone help me out? Other then the crashing and having to reset my laptop the game runes at 150fps average even the video stress test said i did 190 fps.

Macbook Pro 2.8GHz 7200RPM, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Aug 23, 2009 4:04 AM

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fruitplus Author

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Aug 23, 2009 12:18 PM in response to fruitplus

Bump 🙂

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Sep 6, 2009 12:23 AM in response to fruitplus

My unibody MacBook Pro is experiencing a similar problem. It's getting a BSOD every hour or so of gameplay, performs a memory dump and restarts.

I noticed that this only occurred today when I updated my Direct X with the installer program. Did you update your Direct X with the Microsoft updater?

I am running Vista Ultimate x86 with BootCamp 3.0.

We should also try reinstalling to a base version of Direct X and see if that fixes it.

Post your results here, I am anxious to get this fixed as well.

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tthiel1

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Sep 6, 2009 11:17 AM in response to fruitplus

I'm using Crossover to play CSS without rebooting into Boot Camp. I have used it for quite awhile and play for long periods of time without issue. Lot better than booting into Boot Camp. I run at maximum settings withput issue.

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xrawrxx

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Sep 6, 2009 6:47 PM in response to tthiel1

those of u are facing problems are u all using late2008 macbook? and those who does not have problem are u all using mid 2009?

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Sep 13, 2009 1:35 PM in response to xrawrxx

After several more tests I’ve arrived at a solution.

There seems to be a random element in Boot Camp’s installation process that creates an IRQ resource conflict in Windows. The BSOD I was getting indicated that “IRQL not less than or equal to” and a BCM.sys file was responsible for the conflict. This file is related to the Broadcom Ethernet driver.
Reverting back to Boot Camp 2.1 actually made Counter Strike crash even sooner, but suggested to me that Boot Camp drivers were responsible. I performed a complete uninstall and reinstalled to Boot Camp 3.0. Hours of game play later and no crashes or BSOD.

If a complete uninstall and reinstall doesn’t fix it for you the first time, try it again. I think it just has to “randomly” assign the IRQ correctly. Manually assigning the IRQ probably won’t work as Windows apparently cannot detect the conflicts until it fails.

Direct X 10 is not responsible for the problem. I tested this by running CSS in 9.0c mode via an advanced start command and it still crashed. Oh, and I also discovered that Direct X 10 is integrated into Vista and cannot be uninstalled or rolled back.

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