Hey everyone-
A colleague recently told me about the Parallels app that allows you to load your bootcamp partion as a VM w/in MacOS… which is awesome!
However - i have pretty bad performance playing WoW this way… I’ve tweaked some of the shared hardware settings but still just sort of crappy. Graphics are choppy, trying to kill a quest mob is a really annoyng experience… i think you catch my drift
My assumption is hardware is an issue. I have a dualcore i5 and 8GB ram. I have an SSD… I can upgrade to 16GB ram which i think can help.
Just wondering if anyone had similar issues and found ways to remedy them. Any insight would be useful. Thanks!
If you want the best performance, you will want to skip Parallels entirely and run Windows under bootcamp on a partition.
Go to the Apple website and look up bootcamp.
Parallels is a middle man that allows you to quickly switch operating systems, but at a cost to performance.
Plus, be aware that there is a known bug in Catalina that causes issues with VM ware.
Yeah i went the bootcamp route when macOS went to Mojave and messed w/ everything in the native macOS… im admittedly being lazy with the restart and thought parallels would be cool to try. Thanks for your help Oatmeal!
I have just a quick question that is slightly relevant.
I have the same setup on a 2015 (mid, I think) Macbook Pro.
How much space would you recommend or suggest allocating for a Boot Camp partition dedicated solely to WoW with 256 GB storage total.
If I take a forget to hearth (I have a memory impairment from a severe traumatic brain injury) and take a portal into Orgimmar, my frame rate tanks to between 2-4 fps, and I can barely get out of the portal room. Really, I’m extremely lucky if it goes as high as 4 fps.
Ooops, I didn’t see that this post was a month old. Is that long enough to call it a resurrected thread? Please forgive my lack of knowledge.
See Apple’s h-t-t-p-s://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201468
Unfortunately you will likely find that between Windows and MacOS on the same drive is probably not doable due to space limitations.
Verify that your Mac has an SSD drive first… your comments about FPS suggests it does not. In which case Bootcamp will change nothing for you.
Your best option will likely be an external SSD to run WoW on. You can run bootcamp there or use it an an external drive under OSX. I suggest a 1TB SSD drive for plenty of growth.
Trying to allocate enough space for both OSes and applicable software and storage on a single 256GBs is extremely tight.
My system has 4 internal drives, 1TB for Windows, 1TB for OSX, 4TBs for media, and 1TB for games. I have an old Mac Pro 5,1 so I have plenty of space, just dead-end hardware at this point. None of my drives are SSD which is why I have the same slowdowns as everyone else with platter drives in WoW. I could get an SSD but the rest of the hard ware is pretty much at the end of it’s lifespan technology-wise short of replacing the motherboard now.
Thank you so much for the suggestions, information, and reference. I’ll definitely try the external SSD after my Autumn Quarter financial aid is disbursed. I’m very anxious to see if it makes a difference.