I recently installed Fusion 5.0.3 and Windows 7 Pro on my 2009 MacBookPro so I could run Quickbooks 2013 and Excel 2013. I knew I was probably pushing the processor, so I always close all the Mac applications before launching VMware. Quickbooks 2013 works beautifully, and I can see vmware-vmx in Activity Monitor using about 50% of the CPU. The trouble starts when I open Excel 2013. vmware-vmx charges up to 140% of the CPU, and Excel stops responding. I set the VM Ram to 2 GB (as recommended) and core processor to 1. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!
How do you have 3d acceleration set in the VM?
How do you have 3d acceleration set in the VM?
3D acceleration is turned on. I'm shutting down the vm now so I can set it to off.
Thanks dlhotka! I turned off the 3D acceleration setting in Fusion, and now Excel 2013 has stopped crashing. I never would have found that one on my own! Thank you!