'Arith Wrote:my igp is intel hd3000 would that mean that in terms of speed I can't do much thanks to the GPU?
Yes, your Intel HD 3000 is not suited for playing many games at Internal Resolutions greater than 1x. Some games will be fine at 1x, or 2x IR, but you'll find that the GPU will bottleneck your performance at higher resolutions and even some games will be bottlenecked at 1x IR (GPU intensive games usually). If you can deal with 1x IR with no AA, you should be good for many games, but anything more may be hit and miss.
'Arith Wrote:also if I were to bootcamp windows 7 would it have a more positive/negative effect considering the OpenGL and d3dx backends in relation to my GPU?
OpenGL is usually on par with the D3D9 backend (which is now removed in recent revisions) in terms of speed. I don't know if the difference has been thoroughly tested on Intel IGPs (it has on Nvidia and AMD at least) but at the very least, you shouldn't get these OS X specific driver issues, regardless if you use D3D9/11 or OpenGL on Windows 7.