Giving XP additional CPU power?

qom · Dec 21, 2007

I'm using a XP installment to play World of Warcraft (yes, I know it exists for OSX).
While it runs fine to begin with, after awhile it gets real choppy. However, OSX is still running fine, without any slowdowns or anything.

Would it be possible to set a higher priority for XP so it can handle WoW better?

Eru Ithildur · Dec 21, 2007

Well, you can only give one core to Parallels...
But, inside of your configuration window you can find a setting to optimize for Guest OS performance, a setting to increase VRAM, and a setting to increase allocated RAM.

qom · Dec 22, 2007

Yeah I know. However I think that the bottleneck in my case is the CPU.
Have 1200mb ram allocated for XP, that should be more than enough for casual wow playing.

Eru Ithildur · Dec 23, 2007

What does the Task Manager and Activity Monitor show as CPU usage?

qom · Dec 26, 2007

WoW uses 90-99% in XP
And activity monitor says parallels uses about 110% (?) when WoW is running

Eru Ithildur · Dec 28, 2007

It sounds like the core that Windows XP is getting is maxed out. Parallels does not support multiple-cores being used by a VM.

qom · Dec 28, 2007

WoW shouldn't really use that much resources, I think.
Must be somekind of efficiency problem. But what do I know.

Eru Ithildur · Dec 31, 2007

Well, you could compare the CPU usage to a real pc.