Retina MBP - Make 1GB (100%) Video Ram available to VM?

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by danieltharris, Feb 9, 2013.

  1. danieltharris

    danieltharris Member

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    I currently have 512MB available to my Windows VM, if I wanted to run a game (rare that I do) is there an advantage / disadvantage to making the full 1GB Video Ram available to the VM.

    I know no matter how much is assigned it will always be shared, the VM will never be able to claim 100% of the resources.

    But if I do this, will it give the best performance? Should I reduce it down again when doing business tasks that aren't video card intensive?

    I don't know how well Parallels handles games, but it's not something i'd ever try in any other VM software.
     

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