Optimizing Settings for Windows 8.1 on MacBook Pro 13"

[pebex]

Hello guys, I've recently bought a VMware Fusion 6 and installed Windows 8.1 as a guest system but it seems for me very slow mainly for keyboard input/repainting the screen(?) which seems very disappointing in my view and it cost 54 euros. I have MacBook Pro 13" Late 2013 (retina, i5-4258U, 8G). What's wrong? Do I have to configure something?

Thanks in advance.

[ColoradoMarmot]

Did you install VMWare tools inside the virtual machine?

How much memory/cores did you give the virtual machine when you created it?

[pebex]

Of course, I did. I give it a 2 gigs of memory and 2 cores.

[ColoradoMarmot]

Sometimes they don't install automatically, so it's always worth checking.  Is '3d acceleration' turned on in settings?  Is the VM on an internal drive, or an external one?

[pebex]

I see, but it seems to be installed properly. Yep, all acceleration is enabled. The VM in on internal drive.

[pebex]

Okay I've tried a little "debugging": The issue is not within VMWare Tools anyway, it does the same thing to Windows 8.1 without tools.

[pebex · Accepted solution]

The main issue was that Windows has had enabled a Superfetch which was causing the problem. When I manually disabled it. It worked like a charm.

[ColoradoMarmot]

Cool - good to know!