columbrian's Posts

FWIW, turning off graphics acceleration was unusable. But it did clear up another minor, but perhaps telling, issue with Altium under Fusion. The dialog buttons had been showing some rendering artifacts that aren't present without DirectX. Parallels renders the buttons correctly, although with the eventual decline into total system instability.   Do the Fusion people know what the underlying trigger for the crash is? Or just that it's the AMD driver?   I am quickly reaching the point of abandoning the whole concept to VMs and moving to a NUC and RDP. Nobody involved in the chain of dependent software platforms actually feels like they own this problem. VMware says it's AMD, so talk to Apple. It's hard to go to Apple and say "my VM is crashing, it's your fault", as they respond with the expected "take it up with the VM vendor". And there's no path to AMD at all, not that I would expect a direct resolution with them anyway.

Yes, sadly Parallels has turned out not to work as well as I originally had thought. I was hoping they would be a solution until the problem using Fusion got resolved. So far as I can tell this seems to affect only Altium users. I wonder what it is that they're doing that's so special. Presumably the same AMD driver is being used by many other applications, including ones running natively under MacOS and in the Windows VM.   My experience with Altium in the past is that once you mention VM they respond with "unsupported". So I doubt they'll be much help.

Interestingly, I downloaded a trial version of Parallels and it works fine on the same hardware. I know there are a lot of moving parts, but it sure seems like a solution, if not the actual problem, lies in the Fusion GPU virtualization. cheers