foom 0 Report post Posted January 19, 2014 (edited) Sometimes I want to manually play one of my accounts for various reasons and I want the graphics to be like it is on my host OS, but there is all this lag and choppiness no matter how many resources I give it. None of my hardware is maxed out. Any tips? Edit: It isn't choppy all the time, just every 10 seconds or so. This comes down to a huge FPS drop that lasts maybe 2 seconds and then the cycle repeats. I already tried limiting the FPS and it doesn't matter...if I limit the FPS to 20 the drops just go to maybe 5 FPS instead of dropping from 80 to 20. The result is the same. Again, none of my hardware is being significantly taxed. Edited January 19, 2014 by foom Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Walt 178 Report post Posted January 20, 2014 If your hardware isn't being taxed, it could be that your GPU is actually damaged... Or you have a really crappy harddrive, Have you done a benchmark test for either of them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
foom 0 Report post Posted January 20, 2014 I'm running 2 x GTX 660 which run games fine on the host and benchmarks appropriately... the hard drive the VM is sitting on is 2 x 120 GB SSD in RAID 0 and it reads at 950 MB/sec according to CrystalDiskMark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest BloodyBeast Report post Posted January 20, 2014 Did you install VMware tools ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChiefNoob 2 Report post Posted January 20, 2014 (edited) I remember I had this problem when I wasn't playing with bot long time ago, try adding "-gc 2" in shortcut, it might work for you L.E.: Check the temperature of your components, especially GPU Edited January 21, 2014 by ChiefNoob Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
foom 0 Report post Posted January 23, 2014 Did you install VMware tools ? Yes I did. I remember I had this problem when I wasn't playing with bot long time ago, try adding "-gc 2" in shortcut, it might work for you L.E.: Check the temperature of your components, especially GPU Will do. Note also that this problem is exclusive to when I'm using VM. On main Win 7 OS, no such issues. Will update after utilizing gc2 later. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
username1001101 11 Report post Posted January 25, 2014 btw, I use vmware 7.1 since it doesn't have that superbright issue when you turn off Aero maybe try to use that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Walt 178 Report post Posted January 25, 2014 "-gc 2 -swa -ns" are all great commands to add to your path to reduce the chance of freezing or crashing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
foom 0 Report post Posted February 3, 2014 I eliminated this issue by overlocking my processor - bumping my i5-4670K from 3.4ghz stock to 4.5ghz. Not sure why there wasn't enough juice there before, to be honest, as the issue occurred even when the processor wasn't maxed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
