good to know. Thanks. I was wrong earlier, as it looks like my idle temperatures are running closer to 38C . When it has shut down the game, according to my "Core Temp" App, MAX Temperature has never been more then 91C

Thank you! I just knew as soon as I posted someone would bash Apple, but it does seem that the comment against MacBook Airs may be more correct then I wanted to believe. now that I think of it, most of what I read was pertaining to MacBook Pros. I thought that since my air doesn't have the retina display, it might take less to drive it, but I am somewhat ignorant when it comes to this stuff. Do you mind me asking, What are the Specs on your pro, and How do you deal with any heating issues? Thanks

Thanks for your help. Honestly I realize it's not the best machine to run games on, but I have had this MacBook since before I started playing this game, which is the only game I play. I don't really have the money to dump into a gaming setup right now, and the Mac seemed at first to do a much better job then the ancient Laptop I had. I did a lot of research before going to the trouble of installing Windows on it. A lot of people play games on Mac's with no problems, and plenty of people have issues with there PC's. I didn't really want to start yet another debate about it. But I do appreciate the good straight forward advice. One thing I don't think about is that laptops in general have heating issues , and the MacBook Air is especially bad offender in that regard. Hopefully I can get it straightened out.

this is what i installed, seems to work well http://www.crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control idle temperature seems to be around 55-60C I was wondering if something may be running in the background that may be affecting things, but the only thing I have installed is the Temperature monitor I have, (and now the fan control) I don't really have anything else as I only installed windows to play this game, and for the first week or so it worked way better then the old PC laptop I had even when playing for Hrs at a time on high settings. Thanks for your help

Thanks. I installed a fan controller that seems to be helping, but the game crashed again when I left the game to look at temperatures. Everything else seems to be fine. Lets hope no damage has been done.

WOW! fast reply, Thanks for trolling with your Apple Hate, but I'm looking for real solutions

I recently installed SWTOR on my 2012 MacBook air i7 1.7Ghz(2.3Ghz Turbo boost), 8GB RAM, intel graphics HD 5000, via Bootcamp. I am running Windows 10 64bit. I played the game fine for about a week or so with all settings on high, without shading of course. But yesterday the game started crashing on me- Windows was shutting it down when the processor hit 90C. I tried lowering graphics to all low settings, and waited for the machine to completely cool down, and have now tried playing several times. As soon as it loads to where my player was on Ziost it shuts off. very frustrating. I can't hear fans coming on, and I know they were running continually before. Anyway to Manually turn them on in Windows? Confused as to why it was working wrong before, and now has stopped. The computer seems to be working fine otherwise.