ner Posted October 16, 2006 Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) Virtual Pc 2004 has very slow performance running under windows xp media centre, the chipset i am runing on is Intel 945P, i have searched and can not find any listed problems, other than KB899525 which is provided as a fix for slow performance under intel centrino 915 chipset but this seems to be for laptops only??Does anyone know if this would work for my chipset, or if you have installed it ?Cheers! Edited October 16, 2006 by ner
ner Posted October 16, 2006 Author Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) Hi nitroshift,I have 2 GB of Ram running! Edited October 16, 2006 by ner
nitroshift Posted October 16, 2006 Posted October 16, 2006 Please post entire specs of your pc. Is this the only software that performs poorly?
P51D Mustang Posted October 16, 2006 Posted October 16, 2006 By default, the wizard allocates 128mb of memory to the VM-which would be one reason for very slow performance.I allocate 1 Gb of my 2Gb and it works well.Open the Virtual PC console. Select Action|Settings to check your RAM allocation.HTH
ner Posted October 16, 2006 Author Posted October 16, 2006 (edited) The full spec of my pc is :PentiumD 940 (P) DC 3.2 GHz, 800 MHz front side bus, Socket 775Intel 945P Memory 2GB 400 GB (2 x 200) SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec), 7200 rpmGeForce 7600GS, 512 MB DDR memory TV tuner card with FM tunerIntegrated 10/100 Base-T networking interfaceI have also just installed another hotfix KB889677 that updated the Virtual pc.exe (5.3.582.32) and Vmm.sys (1.1.465.14) files, and this has helped the performance, but i will also increase the amount of memory used by VPC as above, thanks for your help... but i still wonder will installing KB899525 help further with performance, do anyone know what this changes the file version numbers too... Edited October 16, 2006 by ner
ner Posted October 16, 2006 Author Posted October 16, 2006 Well i have gone for it and installed the KB899525. hotfix and the vmm.sys is the same version as after installing the KB899525 - still @ (1.1.465.14), but the Virtual pc.exe - is now a newer version.And yes with increasing the memory and the above fix in place its all faster and smoother running!
LLXX Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 Don't expect it to come anywhere near the speed of real hardware though...
ner Posted October 17, 2006 Author Posted October 17, 2006 @ MagicAndre1981No did not install VMTools? Cheers Nick
MagicAndre1981 Posted October 17, 2006 Posted October 17, 2006 so go install the VMTools, those Tools include drivers to enhance the performance of the OS.
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