Running Civ V on a bootcamped Retina MacBook Pro

[Ghiggzified]

Since APSYR still has not fixed the horrible performance problems that plague Retina MacBook Pros running Mountain Lion while trying to play Civ V, I'm planning on installing Windows 7 through bootcamp and getting my Civ fix that way.

But I wanted to ask you guys what you think of that plan before I bought a copy of Windows 7. Is Windows 7 even stable on rMBPs? How's the display? Any problems with nVidia drivers? Does it run well in general?

Thanks

 

[jonteman]

Win7 runs fine on bootcamp.
You cant use the maximum resolution since Win7 aint optimized at such high res.
I'm recommeding running something like 1650x1050.

Drivers are working quiet well.
I've played a couple of games, Skyrim, Dishonored, Civ V, LoL, Dota 2 etc.
Game runs fine but having your laptop in your LAP might get abit fuzzy at times, espically in high intensive 3D-games like Skyrim or Dishonored.

 

[Ghiggzified]

When you say it can't run on the maximum resolution, do you mean the full 2880 x 1800? Right now, I have my display set the the default "best for Retina display." So will I even notice a difference?

 

[mcmorran]

When you say it can't run on the maximum resolution, do you mean the full 2880 x 1800? Right now, I have my display set the the default "best for Retina display." So will I even notice a difference?

That's an OS X thing. The native resolution of the screen is 2880 x 1880, when you have "best for retina" in OS X it reports itself to applications as being 1440 x 900 and supporting applications, text, icons etc. are double the resolution so look nice and smooth.

Windows doesn't have this as yet so in Windows by default you will get a desktop of 2880x1800 and tiny little icons and text. You can set the text size to be bigger which gives a similar effect to running in "best for retina display" in OS X but for games you're best to change their resolution down to something lower as it requires a hell of a lot of graphics power to render games at 2880 x 1800.

Guess you can either do this by changing the Windows screen resolution on the desktop and running in a window or just setting the video resolution in Civ 5 to something else and running full-screen

 

[j1mmy]

I am thinking of doing this as well. If you dont mind posting, what quality settings are you able to run the game in the boot camped partition? Do you do anything to tweak the game down, like less civs, only use strategic view, or just playing it "normally"?

Thanks!