Cant change Parallels 4 settings...

adamvk

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Original poster

• Feb 26, 2009

• #1

So, I want to change the settings for Parallels 4, because when I go to configure, it shows that it is currently only using 512MB of ram, and 128MB of video ram. However, I can't change the settings because it is grayed out, so I cant move any sliders....Anyone know why?

Also just wanna say, Oblivion runs nicely 1280x800 🙂

 

steveza

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• Feb 27, 2009

• #2

You need to shut your virtual machine down before those settings can be changed. Suspend/sleep/hibernate modes still leave the vm in a running state. You would change the RAM in your physical machine while it was running . . . would you? 🙂

 

adamvk

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Original poster

• Feb 27, 2009

• #3

Ok, thanks, that worked 🙂

Also, would upgrading ram to 4GB for parallels help alot?

 

steveza

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• Feb 28, 2009

• #4

If you upgrade your system RAM to 4GB then you could give 2GB to your virtual machine which would improve performance.