EQ and Parallels

[beaon]

Hi Everyone,

I am not sure where best to ask this and using the search was sadly very unproductive. Does anyone know how well EQ runs on parallels in MAC? I have a mac book pro 13".

[hedbonker]

Cannot speak to Parallels but it runs under VMWare fusion but REALLY slow. I have an 8 core 2.8 ghz macpro. I use bootcamp to play it. Much smoother...

[beaon]

Ok, sounds like I'll use bootcamp then. Especially since parallel's can integrate with a BC partition.

[Knuckle]

Qeynos is Sony EQ backwards. Everquest was made by Verant when Qeynos was added.
Feerrott = Fear Route. Plane of Fear was not released untill quite some time after feerrott.

[zianlo1]

Feerrott = Otter Ref.....Fact.

[azeth]

Qeynos is Sony EQ backwards. Everquest was made by Verant when Qeynos was added.
Feerrott = Fear Route. Plane of Fear was not released untill quite some time after feerrott.

ya i thought this thread was going this direction with parallels, too.

[nilbog]

http://common.allakhazam.com/images/1/7/178a0a8b118286e37045bdbf4d7ccb06.png

moved to technical discussion.

[Mcbard]

Runs just fine on parallels. I too have the 13inch MBP. :)

[Samuel]

I have a 15" Macbook Pro and I have been trying to get parallels working. I can load up windows and log onto EQ, but everything runs slowly. Even opening simple programs like firefox is extremely slow.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or know a solution?

[Mcbard]

Are you running in fullscreen mode? Maybe that has something to do with it? Parallels might effect performance a lot more harshly depending on what kind of hard drive you have also? Personally I have an SSD so everything performs ungodly fast.. I generally play EQ in windowed mode at my desk with an external monitor and have a ton of other programs open at the same time and I suffer no performance issues. Pic shows what I usually run without any problems.. Adium, Parallels, browser, vent, and I sometimes do homework/listen to itunes with no issues. http://img441.imageshack.us/i/parallels.gif/

[Geleana]

I recently downloaded parallels to play EQ on my mac. So far it's working good, but tends to get slow if I switch out my windows and such. So far so good though! :)

[beaon]

Alright so I have MacBook pro 13". I am using bootcamp to launch EQ. Overall things seem fine, except this weird issue with general slowness in animation and travel.

Even with SOW my char randomly will run extremely slow. Battle animations are equally slow. The chat log however is not delayed and battle mechanics go on as normal. So I don't know whats going on.

Whats weird is zoning, and sometimes facing certain directions things will instead return to normal. Another strange thing, when troubleshooting this problem I couldn't seem to get my clip plain lowered adequately.

Thoughts?

[beaon]

I tried the suggestion here,
http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=25446&highlight=slowness+running

That didn't help, in fact I think made it worse.

[beaon]

Found the solution to have MSConfig set windows to use 1 CPU. I found the solution here, and had wanted to link it, but now I can't find that post again. I found it under the search string "Dual Core".