Anyone with VMWare experience?

I've looked into using a VMWare virtual machine for FMing purposes. However, the performance on the client machine is ridiculous--definitely not usable.

I can only assume this is due to the incomplete state of Direct3D support in VMWare Workstation, but figured I would ask for a solution anyway.

Are there any performances fixes around that should be added to the .vmx, or am I pretty much screwed?

My hardware is as follows:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-core @ 2.6 GHz
3 GB Corsair XMS2 PC6400 (800 MHz) RAM
nVidia Geforce 8600 GT 256MB
Windows Vista 32-bit

Vista and VMware have never been a winning combination in my experience (then again, vista and anything has never been a success either.)

I'm thinking the demands of two "MapleStory"s running on one computer is probably too much. It's certainly possible to run Maple in a Virtual machine, but I doubt it's gonna work when it runs in both.

My resources aren't being stretched, though, which is why I assume it's a VMWare issue. My CPU is reaching a maximum of 40% usage total with both instances running, and I'm doing fine on RAM.

Are you trying to run vista in VM aswell? What version of VM? I'd blame your hardware. I have no problems running VM in Vista Business and Windows 7. I've allocated two cores and 1GB of ram for it. That pretty much maxes out my RAM. I have 4 x 1GB in 32bit.

Are you trying to run vista in VM aswell? What version of VM? I'd blame your hardware. I have no problems running VM in Vista Business and Windows 7. I've allocated two cores and 1GB of ram for it. That pretty much maxes out my RAM. I have 4 x 1GB in 32bit.

No. I'm running Windows XP SP3 as the guest machine.

Hm. So the issue can be my hardware even if my resources aren't being maxed out? I allocated 1.5 GB of RAM to the guest and a single core. Is a single 2.6GHz not powerful enough to run it smoothly?

I can run MS in a VM Workstation (host machine and virtual machine both running XP SP2 afaik) and they get around 20fps each. The VM version is not as playable due to slowdown (it seems to only move 2/3 as fast as normal MS) but definitely good enough for FM purposes.

I'm using single core Pentium 4 x-x (2.8GHz) and I have 512MB of RAM allocated to it. I dunno why it's so slow for you.



I don't use windowmode at all though, I did notice that putting MS in window mode basically cuts the FPS by 75-80% normally.



I thought VMWare only had OpenGL support, I know I needed openGL drivers for my videocard to get it to run games.

No. I'm running Windows XP SP3 as the guest machine.

Hm. So the issue can be my hardware even if my resources aren't being maxed out? I allocated 1.5 GB of RAM to the guest and a single core. Is a single 2.6GHz not powerful enough to run it smoothly?

give the allocate 512 to 1Gig for the VM. Set resolution to 800x600, though I think it would change to that by itself once you start maple in full screen. Running maple in windowed always max out one of my cores, might be because of aero, idk.

I have a quad core 2.4ghz and 6 gigs of ram which should be overkill to run vmware with vista but guess what? I ran into the same problems as you did. There would be constant lag, client and host could be connect at the same time, etc..

The moment that you downgrade to XP, you'll realize that Vista is the crummiest OS following windows ME.

seriously, downgrade and you'll never look back.