Mike29936
26th January 2009, 01:57
Hello,
I currently run Kubuntu 8.10, and I've been wanting to get rid of my Windows partition and just use VMware so I wouldn't have to dual boot. Unfortunately, Maplestory has some slowdown issues that make it frustrating to play. It does not seem to be a network lag issue.
First, nothing except MS seems to cause any slowdown. DXDiag doesn't seem to report any issues. When I launch MS, everything runs fine for a couple of minutes, but then slows down suddenly. It is as if MS is buffering something, because after 5-10 minutes of slowdown, the frame rate will jump to about twice what it should be - I probably look like I'm hacking during this time since I can shoot/walk twice as fast, etc.. After a few minutes of this, it will slow down again and repeat the cycle.
* Decreasing the host resolution to 800x600 seems to lengthen the initial normal play time and shorten the cycles.
* Setting the process' priority to real-time(in the guest OS) doesn't seem to help.
* Setting my video card to not render to my second monitor doesn't seem to help.
* I have no other programs besides VMware and MS inside of it running.
* Once MS has started a slowdown cycle, shutting it down and restarting it immediately afterwards does not reset the "slowdown buffer". Waiting about 15 minutes seems to clear it, though I haven't timed it.
* MS runs normally on a native XP 32-bit installation.
* Setting the virtual machine to use only a single processor does not help.
* Shutting off the paging file in the guest OS does not seem to help; neither does fiddling with the RAM I allocate to it.
* The slowdown is not a standard network lag. Using potions or other network things is instantaneous.
My hardware specs:
* Intel Quad Core C2Q6600 @ 2.4 GhZ
* Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ 512 MB
* 3GB RAM - I have allocated 1GB to my virtual machine.
* I have 2 monitors connected that I run at 1650x1050. However, my video card should be plenty powerful enough to handle this(since it can run Far Cry 2 reasonably easy on native Windows(I have not tried it in a VM)).
* My internet goes through my university's ResNet(http://www.telecom.pdx.edu/ if you really want more details). It should be fast enough since I can get a ~500-600 Kb/s download speed from a good server.
* Host OS: Kubuntu 8.10 AMD64 Alternate Install(I wanted the hard drive encryption)
* Guest OS: I have tried Windows XP 64 bit & 32 bit. It has the same problem on both.
* I am running VMWare Workstation 6.5.
Any help would be appreciated :),
-- Michael
I currently run Kubuntu 8.10, and I've been wanting to get rid of my Windows partition and just use VMware so I wouldn't have to dual boot. Unfortunately, Maplestory has some slowdown issues that make it frustrating to play. It does not seem to be a network lag issue.
First, nothing except MS seems to cause any slowdown. DXDiag doesn't seem to report any issues. When I launch MS, everything runs fine for a couple of minutes, but then slows down suddenly. It is as if MS is buffering something, because after 5-10 minutes of slowdown, the frame rate will jump to about twice what it should be - I probably look like I'm hacking during this time since I can shoot/walk twice as fast, etc.. After a few minutes of this, it will slow down again and repeat the cycle.
* Decreasing the host resolution to 800x600 seems to lengthen the initial normal play time and shorten the cycles.
* Setting the process' priority to real-time(in the guest OS) doesn't seem to help.
* Setting my video card to not render to my second monitor doesn't seem to help.
* I have no other programs besides VMware and MS inside of it running.
* Once MS has started a slowdown cycle, shutting it down and restarting it immediately afterwards does not reset the "slowdown buffer". Waiting about 15 minutes seems to clear it, though I haven't timed it.
* MS runs normally on a native XP 32-bit installation.
* Setting the virtual machine to use only a single processor does not help.
* Shutting off the paging file in the guest OS does not seem to help; neither does fiddling with the RAM I allocate to it.
* The slowdown is not a standard network lag. Using potions or other network things is instantaneous.
My hardware specs:
* Intel Quad Core C2Q6600 @ 2.4 GhZ
* Nvidia Geforce 9800 GTX+ 512 MB
* 3GB RAM - I have allocated 1GB to my virtual machine.
* I have 2 monitors connected that I run at 1650x1050. However, my video card should be plenty powerful enough to handle this(since it can run Far Cry 2 reasonably easy on native Windows(I have not tried it in a VM)).
* My internet goes through my university's ResNet(http://www.telecom.pdx.edu/ if you really want more details). It should be fast enough since I can get a ~500-600 Kb/s download speed from a good server.
* Host OS: Kubuntu 8.10 AMD64 Alternate Install(I wanted the hard drive encryption)
* Guest OS: I have tried Windows XP 64 bit & 32 bit. It has the same problem on both.
* I am running VMWare Workstation 6.5.
Any help would be appreciated :),
-- Michael