I moved off of VirtualBox and onto VMWare Workstation 17 because I upgraded my computer to an Intel Core i9 CPU (from an i5). My new system has Windows 11 Pro, Core i9 CPU (12900K, 16 cores), 64 GB RAM, 2 x 1T SSDs and an nVidia 4 port graphics card.

VMware will run the Windows 10 Pro VM's OK but I get terrible lag on them. The VM's will just freeze for 3s-4s then run OK, then freeze again. There is no pattern to the delays that I can tell.

I am NEW to VMWare so I don't know how to tweak these VM's to run reasonably fast and could use some help. I have tried changing VCPUs and RAM but that doesn't make any noticeable difference.

Can someone share techniques in getting the VMs to run quickly, please?