Suggestion / Question about Video / 3d - Catia

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by hw@schroedersnetz.de, May 31, 2009.

  1. hw@schroedersnetz.de

    hw@schroedersnetz.de Bit poster

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    Hy there.
    I want to find out, what to use to run CAD Software CATIA on a MacPro with Parallels 4 and WIN XP SP3.
    Actual I`m using the folloing configuartion:

    Host system:

    MacPro 3.1 Early 2008 - OS X 10.5.7
    8x 2.8GHz, 8GB RAM, ATI HD 2600 (256MB) - the PVM file locatet at RAID 0 500+500GB Volume
    Guest system - WIN XP 32bit, SP3
    4x 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 128MB Video with 3d acceleration, use Adaptive Hypervisor
    Display 1680x1050px in fullscreen, 32bit color

    Software
    Catia V5 R17 32bit - running ok, but not at high performance level

    The questions are (for the guest system)
    - more processor cores that 4 ?
    - Host grafik adapter with 512MB or 1.5GB (ATI HD 4870, Nvidia GT 120 or Quatro FX 4800) ?
    - speed up the volume for the PVM file, maybe Raid 0 500+500+500GB ?

    But, I think
    - Catia uses only 1 core ?
    - Parallels can only adjust 256MB for Video Memory ?

    Are there any suggestions or tipps to speed up Parallels for Catia CAD use?
     
  2. hw@schroedersnetz.de

    hw@schroedersnetz.de Bit poster

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    Upps ? No Idea?
    :) push one time
     

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