I just got a new Imac 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4 gigs of RAM, and purchased Parallels Desktop v4. It is the latest build, 3844. I installed XP Pro on there, loaded up SP2 and SP3... And then installed Sony Soundforge V6 (yeah I know they are on v9, but v9 is not known to work at all with Parallels and plus V6 is so much better!).
Anyway, simply playing back a song in Sound Forge (without doing anything) is using up 135% of my CPU time (I'm assuming it's actually only using 67% since it's a dual core). My computer is sluggish AND playback is periodically skipping.
Even Internet Explorer seems very laggy. I used to have a Macbook Pro 2.0GHZ core duo and I don't recall Parallels V3 being this laggy.
I have RAM allocated to 1 gig. What other settings can I adjust to improve performance? Or is V4 of Parallels just a POS??
It doesn't seem like rocket science to me, but who knows... Any ideas, this is the ONLY program I need to use in Windows, and I would prefer to not have to use bootcamp since I *HATE* windows, and that would severely cramp my style... And unfortunately, they DO NOT make Soundforge for the Mac, and Bias Peak and Wave Editor BOTH suck compared to Sound Forge...
Anyway, simply playing back a song in Sound Forge (without doing anything) is using up 135% of my CPU time (I'm assuming it's actually only using 67% since it's a dual core). My computer is sluggish AND playback is periodically skipping.
Even Internet Explorer seems very laggy. I used to have a Macbook Pro 2.0GHZ core duo and I don't recall Parallels V3 being this laggy.
I have RAM allocated to 1 gig. What other settings can I adjust to improve performance? Or is V4 of Parallels just a POS??
It doesn't seem like rocket science to me, but who knows... Any ideas, this is the ONLY program I need to use in Windows, and I would prefer to not have to use bootcamp since I *HATE* windows, and that would severely cramp my style... And unfortunately, they DO NOT make Soundforge for the Mac, and Bias Peak and Wave Editor BOTH suck compared to Sound Forge...