Keyboard stuttering-delays between Parallels ver 17 and 18 on Windows 11-M1 chip

And the keyboard delay/stuttering continues in Parallels 19 with absolutely no improvement. Very discouraged. I adjust just about every setting I could and have rebooted dozens of times to test. Staying with Ver 17 as long as I can, but I do continue to have audio problems there. Latest Ventura 13.5

 

Hi, I'm experiencing the same issues on Parallels 19.0.0 on MBP M2 Max with Linux as the guest.

Random delays especially on the key release. Happens with both external keyboards and the internal one.

I can confirm that attaching the USB keyboard directly to the VM does not show these issues.

What can we do to escalate this issue?

 

LucasS8, can you tell me precisely how you got the USB keyboard directly attached to the VM? I tried that a while back, but it didn't seem to work properly that way as well. I'd like to test again using your method. thank you

 

Parallels has list of USB devices and wether to connect it to host or to guest, or ask. I changed it there. Might need a reboot of host and guest.

Additionally I removed it from MacOS using this trick: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/421645 Don't know if that is needed

 

I too am experiencing the same behavior with the keyboard being sluggish inside VMs. I am running Parallels Desktop 19 (but the problem existed in 18 as well), and host is a MacBook Pro M2. My VMs are running Windows 11 ARM.

 

I also have a very noticeable lag in my Windows 11 ARM VM. I mostly notice it when playing games, but there's also lag when using apps like MS Word, Excel or Photoshop.

PS! I'm running a Mac mini M2 with macOS Ventura. My keyboard is an Apple wired keyboard.

 

Having same Problem with Macbook Pro M2 / Windows 11 Pro ARM64 VM/ Parallels 19. Cursor overshoots sometimes when using auto-repeat function of a key. This is VERY nasty in a development scenario (coding, e.G.: Placing cursor to a line with auto-repeat of up/down keys or delete/back key in a line) . Please PARALLELS, help!

 

I am having exact same issue.
Found out if you disable(off) "Key repeat rate" in Keyboard setting in macos keyboard delay is gone on windows but you lose key repeat on macOS.
Currently I'm switching off "Key repeat rate" when I use windows and enable when using macOS.

 

Is anyone from Parallels reading this?

The issue with Parallels 18 and 19 is that sometimes the keyboard in Windows 11 keeps repeating a key for about 0.5 sec after it was released. From my experimentation it happens roughly once every 5-15 keypresses. It's easy to reproduce:

1. Launch Windows 11 Notepad.
2. Hold any letter key and look at characters being typed.
3. Release the key after about 1 second.
4. The characters should instantly stop being typed. Instead (once in about 5-15 times), the typing keeps going on for a short period of time, but long enough to type several more characters after the key was released (likely around 500ms).

This is extremely annoying when using any text editor or coding with Visual Studio, and especially annoying when using arrow keys to move the cursor. The cursor unpredictably overshoots the place I was aiming for it to stop. This is annoying enough that I have downgraded to Parallels 17, which does not have this issue.

Parallels - please fix it, it must be something simple. You have a working code in Parallels 17. Parallels 18 introduced the change that causes this issue.

I have two Macs, M1 Air and M2 Pro 16". The issue happens on both of them, both on Ventura and Sonoma host OSes. The issue happens in guest Windows 11 and also in Linux Ubuntu (it's not Windows specific). The issue happens in all versions of Parallels 18 and 19, including the latest updates. The issue does not happen in the latest version of Parallels 17, and presumably in any earlier version.

 

Thank you so much for mentioning this, I actually play videogames that require high presition key presses and this annoyed me from the very second I installed parallels 19. I have submited countless help requests a posts and no staff from the team would answer.

Guess it's up to wait for them to launch a new update. But, until then, we shall use version 17, I have researched this topic for 15 days and there's no workaround.

 

This is still a problem in v19.3.1. Since @M_24 above shows how to reproduce it, and @zipexaquez above shows a condition under which it doesn't happen, this should be a sufficient trail of bread crumbs for the Parallels developers to chase this bug down and squash it. Please do!

 

And still a problem with v19.4. So disappointing that such an annoying and seemingly simple problem has not been addressed.

 

I turn off key repeat on the host OS and the laggy keyboard issue goes away. I'm running the the guest (Win 11 Pro ARM) in full screen, so lack of a key repeat in MacOS isn't a problem until I have to suffer the inconvenience of turning it back on again. That i have to tweak the host in order for the guest to run properly is a problem that needs to be fixed.

 

All my problems with audio cracking, stuttering and internal keyboard delays were solved 20240701. I moved to VMware Fusion Player 13.5.2 for FREE!. Convert your parallels .pvm file to use the same Windows you already have in Parallels with QEMU (brew install qemu). I found instructions on Chat GPT. Windows need to be re-authorized after converting to Fusion. Also, there is a workaround to share your local Mac drive in Windows as it's not available with this Fusion install in an M1 with ARM. (check YouTube for instructions). I retired Parallels for good.

 

For the record, the version 19.4.1 update still does not resolve the repeating key problem described by @M_24 above.
If you're up to some AppleScripting, you can create a Shortcut in the macOS menu bar to toggle the host's key-repeat on and off. This makes using the work-around noted by both @zipexaquez and @Bryan20 slightly less inconvenient.

 

I did the conversion as described by JeffreyW1 above, but the key stuttering persists with a bluetooth keyboard. A wired keyboard is not a problem. I do not get stuttering in MacOS (host), but on Windows 11 (guest) in both a Parallels and a VMWare virtual machine. Is this a Windows 11 issue?

 

Just compatibility issue it seems, for Parallels the fix is going back to Parallels 17. You can find that version when downloading the product. The same key you bought for parallels 19 works for 17.

 

I have an Apple Silicon Mac, so downloaded Virtual Buddy. It's made for running MacOS VMs and does not have any lag or keyboard issues.

 

Parallels 20 seems to have fixed the keyboard delay.