Parallels Performance

didof993 said:

I have install parallels ( i bought them ) and a windows 7 on it.
I just try to play some games like Battlefield Play***** and it is always lagging.
When i start up parallels it says 1024MB physical memory while i have 8GB
Can i make it show 8GB RAM???

Thanks

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You will not get great gaming performance in Parallels as it's emulated your best bet is boot camp for that.

Actually it's something else, and you may be able to fix it. Look in the Parallels virtual machine settings (i.e. right-click the Windows button from the Parallels launch window, and select "settings"). You may find a location in the settings where performance is tuned either for best battery life, or best VM performance. Maximize the VM performance.

It works best with older Windows XP games and business applications.

performance

Running 10.8.2
Par. 7
Everytime I launch it, it has a problem/yesterday is could not find WIN XP
though it is in the App section of the HD so I had to reinstall XP and it took forever...then xp wanted the damn activation code to be put in again. At that point I gave up.

didof993 said:

When i start up parallels it says 1024MB physical memory while i have 8GB
Can i make it show 8GB RAM???

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You can allocate more memory in your VM settings but you won't be able to allocate all your memory. As a rule of thumb, you'll get better gaming performance with Boot Camp since it doesn't have the overhead of a virtual solution like Parallels.