what did i just spend $2300 on?

[Theraker007]

So im playing wow on my brand new 2.93 4gb ram, 4850 ati card and i decide to boot up fusion and my computer performance goes to complete crap.. wow crashes, adium and safari can barely function fusion obviously taking a while to do anything and i have to force quit wow and wait almost 5 minutes for things to start running smoothly again..

someone remind me wtf i just spent all this money on? my old desktop woulda been fine.

 

[r.j.s]

WoW and Fusion are both intensive programs, what did you expect?

 

[Schtumple]

How much RAM is Fusion using (in it's settings, not literally)? Too little it'll abuse the hard drive with virtual memory (for windows), too much and it'll choke OSX for RAM...

 

[Diseal3]

imac uses laptop hardware.. how do you think it all fits in that compact screen?

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

WoW and Fusion are both intensive programs, what did you expect?

I agree with the OP. That sort of performance is not acceptable. WoW is not an intensive app, especially on what is supposed to be such a high end computer.

 

[Schtumple]

imac uses laptop hardware.. how do you think it all fits in that compact screen?

Using laptop hardware means nothing... Just because it's laptop hardware doesn't make it incredibly slow... or make it an excuse either...

I agree with the OP. That sort of performance is not acceptable. WoW is not an intensive app, especially on what is supposed to be such a high end computer.

Yeah WoW is incredibly old now (graphically), iMac could easily handle that.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

someone remind me wtf i just spent all this money on? my old desktop woulda been fine.

Uh.. you paid for the logo. What did you expect?

 

[Eidorian]

VMWare Fusion is going to be very disk and CPU intensive while loading up a virtual machine.

Not to mention the fact I wouldn't want to run it alongside a game.

 

[r.j.s]

WoW is not an intensive app, especially on what is supposed to be such a high end computer.

Yeah, I missed the specific specs. Although I think Vista in Fusion would degrade performance a good bit.

 

[eRondeau]

I got that beat. Today I spent $30,000 on a new Chrysler.

 

[aaquib]

Actually, it's only $1800. Are you forgetting the $500 you paid for the logo?

 

[Theraker007]

have about 1900mb of ram dedicated to fusion

 

[Animalk]

WoW can easily create a choke point in the Memory bus on almost any machine. The IMac and the Mac Pro are no exception. Not only that, but in the worst of cases, it can reach over 3 cores worth of load (IMac as two). Yes WoW is not demanding if you play at lowest settings. At highest settings, with a crowd, you are pushing your hardware (especially in Northrend with highly detailed environments).

 

[Eidorian]

have about 1900mb of ram dedicated to fusion

You still have to wait to load up another operating system from a virtual disk on your hard drive while running WoW.

Not to mention the fact you're more than likely going to get graphical weirdness if you have the 3D acceleration enabled if not just the generic virtual display driver in VMWare.

The hard disk is the bottleneck here regardless of the amount of RAM.

 

[stars_fan]

I got that beat. Today I spent $30,000 on a new Chrysler.

You masochist

 

[Theraker007]

Not to mention the fact you're more than likely going to get graphical weirdness if you have the 3D acceleration enabled if not just the generic virtual display driver in VMWare.

can u elaborate on this? could this possibly explain why when i play poker on windows software in vmware, moving windows around is so laggy? any way to fix that?

 

[Eidorian]

can u elaborate on this? could this possibly explain why when i play poker on windows software in vmware, moving windows around is so laggy? any way to fix that?

More than likely. My suggestion for the best graphical performance in Windows is to natively boot into Windows instead of using a virtual machine.

 

[Pugpuppydude]

Wow, this makes me have second thoughts on buying one of these machines...

 

[Santabean2000]

I got that beat. Today I spent $30,000 on a new Chrysler.

Was that really your best option?

No offense, but Chryslers are fugly.
(Edit: same goes for 95% of all North American cars, so maybe it was...)

 

[DELTAsnake]

Don't think just because WoW was launched 4 years ago that it's a low end program. With every major patch Blizzard makes upgrades to the engine and ups the system requirements.

For example the MINIMUM requirements for WoW:BC was a Pentium III 800mhz CPU, by WoW:WotLK that had jumped .5ghz to a Pentium 4 1.3ghz. While our Core 2 Duo's are for more powerful than those CPUs if you turn up the settings in WoW it quickly eats up a lot more resources.

I know from experiance that a nVidia 7800gtx that could run the game at max settings a couple of years ago can no longer run the game at max settings unless about 5 frames per second is an acceptable frame rate to you.

 

[synagence]

WoW is taxing the graphics subsystem, network system and memory usually quite a lot (the new areas are massively more complex than the old areas) ... vmware is running in emulation an entirely new computer and OS .... you cannot expect to have both running and have top performance ... its not Apple .. its reality!

 

[itommyboy]

I got that beat. Today I spent $30,000 on a new Chrysler.

You deserve a government bail out.

 

[jmpage2]

Generally running a gpu/cpu bound game and doing other intensive stuff at the same time is a recipe for disaster (or at least disappointment).

 

[edesignuk]

I'm sure the CPU can take it, and I'm sure 4GB (shared) is enough, your problem is probably having two operating systems needing data from the same disk.

Do you have an external drive you could move your Fusion VM to?

That said, I wouldn't expect too much when running a game under OS X and a VM all at the same time.

 

[jra81984]

I wouldnt expect fusion to run perfectly while playing a game, its very memory intensive. I would run boot camp to play computer games.