wow thank you sir. i've coppied that to go through it step by step. :P also i read a review on vm player and they actually mentionned lag on the latest version with 3/4 gb of ram so... as for my specs, i've got between 3/4 gb ram and 1.5 ghz duel processer. yeah i know that's not in any way amazing, but at the time i couldn't afford a brilliant laptop as i'd recently lost about £600 on a flight. and needed one regardless.
On 7/15/12, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > well how much ram do you have. > there are probably some settings in vmware to tweak. > Cut out everything you are not using. > skype, msn, everything in systray you don't need up, can it. > anything open, can it. > nvda can stay up but you may want to cut out your comercial reader to. > heck even cut nvda if that will help on the host os. > next go to run and type msconfig. > in the boot page, select advanced > check the number of processers box. > now in the list box hit end or down arrow till you can't do it anymore > hit ok twice and restart. > this will make sure you have everything going at startup of the host os. > If you have multipul cores, and say 4gb ram, or even more. > Firstly note that the max xp can take is something in the reagon of > 3.5gb of actual ram. > it can happily run on 1-2 or 1.5gb ram. > Processers. > if you have say for sake a duelcore or a core2 or a quod running at > 2.6 or 3.0ghz > you probably only need 1 core, maybe 2 at the most. > Now vmplayer uses resources to. > in task manager, select the process of vmplayer. > right click that in the processes page and set the prioroty to low. > That will pull resources much less on the host. > If you happen to have a trusted tpm infinity module, you may have or not. > look in the right menu foryour set ifinity option > now uncheck all boxes bar 1 of your cores. > core 0 is your first core core 1 is second, etc, etc, etc. > If the vertual pc itself appears as a process you may want to do the > same. > if you can run your box on half your ram, then do that. > If you can get more ram for your box, I suggest you double it say 6-8gb. > then you can use a full 3 gb for xp or 4 any more than 4 is not usable > anyway. > Vmware will set minimalistic numbers so you should enter your own values. > > At 06:17 p.m. 15/07/2012 +0100, you wrote: >>Hi, >>I know this isn't strictly audiogame related, but it is in the sense >>that I'm trying to run a copy of windows xp in order to use some of >>the games i'm unable to play on 7 64 bit >>my problem is that whenever i run the latest vm player and the copy of >>xp, Nvda lags considerably; so much so that it is near impossible to >>play any text games as it keep stuttering and cuttin in and out at >>random intervals >>i've not got a low end laptop by any means, so i was wondering whether >>its something to do with vm player itself and whether there is a way >>around this? >>I'm mainly asking for the ability to play emon as not only do I really >>want to play it when its released as I love rpgs, but i signed up to >>help test it but of course had this problem when I got around to >>fiddling with a virtual machine. >>any help would be appreciated as i'm not really experienced in these >> matters. >>thanks in advance. >> >>--- >>Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. >>You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >>http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. >>If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >>please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
