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ChrisMiller
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‎10-12-2015 01:20 PM

Windows 10 Guest much slower with Fusion 8 than with Fusion7, what to change?

I just upgraded from Fusion 7 to Fusion 8.0.1 and the performance of my Windows 10 Guest went from fast to slow and laggy.  I have a mid 2014 MacBook Pro running El Capitan with a 2.2Ghz iT, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD.  The VM was up with 6GB RAM and 2 processor cores.  If I boot up the VM and launch the Edge processor, it takes seconds to open a new tab.  Press the Windows key and it will take 5 seconds to open the start menu.  I did upgrade the VM after upgrading Fusion and it's using hardware version 12.

What can I do to fix this?  The VM went from being a great test bed to try Windows 10 to being unusable.

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ChrisMiller
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‎10-13-2015 01:11 PM

A quick email from VMware support sorted this out.  Shut down the virtual machine and go to Virtual machine > Settings > Display > Disable 3D graphics acceleration.  And the VM is happy happy again.

KamalakarAnumul
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Enthusiast
‎10-13-2015 01:31 PM

Given solution is correct.

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dondraper
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‎02-03-2016 11:30 AM

This worked for me as well. I am on a MBP with 16 GB with Mac OS 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and running Fusion 8.1.0. Made a noticeable difference in rendering speed. Some folks appear to be on later Mac OS (El Capitan) and having sluggishness there so I am holding back.

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sunspots2002
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‎02-13-2017 07:08 AM

I've been struggling with VMWare Fusion on my MacBook 12in and have been thinking that the MacBook didn't have the capability to run Fusion as my old MacBook Pro (2011).

I have now disabled Accelerate 3D Graphics and it has made a big difference in running Windows.

My set up:

  • MacBook 12 in
  • Processor 1.3 GHz Intel Core M
  • Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz
  • OS: Sierra 10.12.3
  • VMWare Fusion 8.5.3
  • Windows 10

Hopefully this helps others.

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