performance

I am currently running PDP 14.1.3 on macOS 10.14.6 on a 2018 iMac Pro, and my subscription/extortion payment is due. As has become the norm, now that a new version of Parallels Desktop is out, performance and stability of the old version has gone down the toilette. Almost like Parallels...

I run both PD15 and the current release of VMware. When running downloads (mostly of fixes for the Mojave virtual machine on each) VMware out performs PD15 by a large margin (20 mins download on PD15 versus about 11 on VMware). I have submitted problem reports in the past and never heard back. I...

I've purchased Parallels 15 this week to run Win10 on Catalina. Goal was to get rid of Bootcamp and do some light gaming that is not available to MacOS. So far I've tried DayZ and Euro Truck Simulator 2 but both games have extremely poor performance (5-10 FPS on lowest settings) Setup: 2018...

The word on the web is that due to the way APFS handles file extents, a VM can create tens of thousands of extent entries in the file representing the VM as time goes on. For example see the OWC presentation at last year's user conference. The issue can cause a ballooning of access time since...

Downloading patches or updates from for example Mac App Store is painfully slow ... much slower than on a similarly configured VMware environment. Has anyone figured out what the issue with PD15 and network thruput is?

Hey guys, upgraded to Parallels 15 (had 14 Pro before) newest Windows 10 VM running, it was smooth so far. Now since the Upgrade its running very slow.... especially using Chrome is taking ages to load, Edge Browser much faster. General Performance is not that good... what can I do? ( System...

PD 15 has support for NVMe controllers. If we are migrating pre-PD15 virtual machines to PD15, is there anything that needs to be done to enable this option, or is it automatic? I did not see any option for explicitly enabling this in the settings.

Hi there! I was wondering if the performance improvements for DirectX11 are already noticeable in the Catalina beta, if I wanted to try that? I assume these performance improvements are due to native Swizzling support in Metal 3.0?

Running Parallels 14 with Windows 10. I'm seeing a weird issue where the VM is consistently using 20-30% CPU at idle, which is killing my battery on a consistent basis. I've stripped the VM down to its bare bones, no antivirus nothing else really running. Tried re-installing Parallels tools...

Hi, This is a very difficult issue to describe, but it is so severe that I have been considering moving to a RDS based solution for a while now. Here is the problem - I have been using Parallels since v2 or something with great success. However, since v13 I think, on Mojave and the version...

I've been humming along with the above version of parallels with every version of Mojave prior to the new release of 10.14.4. Now my Windows10 setup is effectively crippled. Long bootup, apps crawling, CPU flatlined at 100% much of the time. I'm running Windows 10 Pro 10.0.17134 on a Macbook...

Hi, we are currently testing Parallels Pro 14.1.2 on an iMac (Intel i5-7500, 3.4 GHz) and we compared the Passmark benchmark with the values possible natively on this platform. Our results show that under Parallels the benchmark is only at 39% in respect to the native Win10 installation...

I am currently on PD version 14.1.2 (45479). Prior to the last two PD14 updates, performance was great and I had nothing to complain about. However, since those updates (particularly the most recent one), I've been experiencing constant periods of unresponsiveness in the guest Win10 VM...

Hi, I recently upgraded to Parallels 14.1.0 and I have noticed a significant battery drain ever since. Has anyone experienced something similar and any suggestion on how I can resolve the issue? My configuration is as follows: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) macOS Mojave 10.14.2 (18C54) evo850...

Long time parallels user on a MBPr15 (mid 2014) with 16G DDR3. I generally steer well clear of both MacOS and Parallels updates until the market irons out the kinks ;) as performance is critical for my work (big MS Office, Project and Visio user). Performance under Parallels v9, v10 and v13 on...

I've just upgraded to Parallels 14 as the 13 version would no longer be fully supported (new Xorg etc) and I wanted a version that fully takes advantage of the new MacOS Mojave. Now after installing it on a clean Mojave setup, when I run parallels with any of my guest OSes (Windows, Linux) the...

So I just purchased a new MacBook Pro and after installing Parallels and updating to the newest release. Any time I open a VM the fans on the MacBook go 100% full blown. Anyone else having this issue and is there a solution?

I notice that when installing Linux on my MacBook Pro, Parallels suggests 2 cpus. I know all the discussions about why not to use multiple cpus - including things like lock contention, excessive host cpu switching due to locking in the VM and so on. Is there any benefit in the new release to...

I tried a simple google search and comes out nothing so I guess few have noticed about this potential issue that may make our VM perform slower than it could be. On modern Intel CPUs, there's a built-in technology Turbo Boost which turns the clock speed up while we're on some heavy work and...

Imac 27 most recent version of all software. What can I do to speed up startup performance I only use Windows for Quickbooks. Please someone send suggestions, have no patience for this