performance

See attached screen-shot. If I increase the video (graphics card) memory (in hope to get better performance in Windows 10), Parallels says I should limit it to 1GB... Is there a reason why? I mean I have 8GB's worth of Video-RAM in my iMac. Please comment Team Parallels. Also, please confirm...

I am running a 2015 MacBookPro with an I7 quad core. When I assign processors in the configuration panel for a VM are those numbers in cores or threads? In other words, when I enter 2 for processors is that 1 core hyper threaded so it looks like 2 processors or is it 2 cores?

Hello, I am writing you because since i have changed my MAC and updated the Paralles to the version 13 i am facing a big number of issues I used to have a 5 years old MAC AIR with win8 now I have a MAC BOOK PRO new with 16GB and 256 HD almost all free (nothing installed more than office) You...

iMac Pro with 18 cores and 128GB RAM tested. 1) When setting the number of processors, it shows 32 available instead of 18 (real) processor cores. On a 4-core laptop (late 2013 MacBook Pro), it shows 4 available. I believe this is a Parallels bug. 2) We set the processors to 32, and RAM at...

Hi, Anyone running Altium successfully under Parallels or VmWare Fusion? I'm on a new iMac i7 Retina, 40GB RAM, Radeon Pro 580 8192 MB Paralells Desktop v13 + Windows 10 Pro 4 cores & 16GB assigned to the PC Graphics setting: best for retina, 3D acceleration: DirectX 10 Even though the...

Again I did it! I bit the bullet and updated Parallels to it's newest version. Now my Windows 10 virtual machine is/feels ten times slower than before the update. Also the Os X feels sluggish. Even the Windows is just idling, Os X shows 100 - 200% load for cpu. I should be able to work tomorrow...

Is the information at http://blog.parallels.com/2015/03/31/virtual-machine-performance-myths-debunked/ still current? In other words, are 2 virtual cpus the sweet spot for Parallels VMs? The referenced article talks about Windows - same thing for Mint (i.e. Ubuntu) Linux?

Hi, I am using Parallels Desktop 12 on a 15" MacBook Pro (Late 2016). The Mac has 16G memory and 2.7G Intel Core i7 CPU with 4 cores. I am using the laptop for Visual Studio 2017 development of a rather large C++ application. I have configured Parallels according to the various KB's. It it...