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Old 02-28-2011, 09:04 AM   #1
Dr. Greg House
 
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Source games freeze on new high-end 15" MacBook Pro (early 2011)

I've been getting crashing on my new MBP (quad i7) with source games, Gmod and L4D2 thus far. I haven't played TF2 yet on it. It doesn't give an error; it just freezes on the screen which requires a hard power-down.

My Specs are:
MacBook Pro 8,2 (the new one)
2.2 Quad i7
AMD 6750m
8 GB of 1333 RAM

I found in the Console the location to the latest crash log which is a KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE:
http://pastebin.com/QXiTbFHN

FYI: Did a 10-cycle MEMTEST, it appears RAM is fine.
Also, ran permissions fix, verified and defraged cache.

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Old 02-28-2011, 09:18 AM   #2
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unfortunately the os x crashlogs are near useless for valve software. valve uses breakpad to catch the real crash and os x is reporting that the breakpad thread has crashed when that is not actually the case. I have no idea where valve is putting the breakpad dmp files; ive searched but came up empty.
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Old 03-06-2011, 01:32 PM   #3
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I'm having the same problem, with the exact same specifications (except I have 4 GB of RAM, not 8).

Oddly, TF2 works fine, but Portal and Half-Life freeze up and require a reboot after about two minutes.

I haven't tried out L4D yet.
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Old 03-06-2011, 02:03 PM   #4
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You guys are not alone. I've been hearing about this issue on the Blizzard Starcraft II forums as well. Sounds like a driver bug. Hopefully 10.6.7 will fix this.
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Old 03-09-2011, 02:04 AM   #5
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Same issue. Hoping for a fix soon. Gaming is nearly impossible.
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Old 03-09-2011, 02:12 AM   #6
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Also, even happens in windowed mode.
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Old 03-18-2011, 12:02 PM   #7
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I had this problem too. It seemed to dissappear after a few sessions. Also, try downloading gfxcardstatus and switching to discrete only before playing, that worked for me once.
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