help with macbook retina 15 and parallels

[oaltinyay]

Hi

I am trying to run Witp:ae on a 15 inch retina using parallels.

My command line is "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -fd -px1600 -py900 -r -skipVideo -cpu2 -deepColor –multiaudio –dd_sw -altFont

My reolution is maximum for Windows desktop and parallels setting : use retina resolution OFF ( when it is ON game screen loads only 1/4 of the screen or so )

Game loads ok but painfullt slow.

Any help is much appreciated.

[oaltinyay]

Actually I believe it has something to do with my CPU settings but I may be wrong ;

Parallels desktop setting is 2 CPUs with 4 Gig RAM

-fd -px1600 -py900 -r -skipVideo -cpu2 -deepColor –multiaudio –dd_sw -altFont

can -cpu2 setting maybe not right for this one ?

[Bill Durrant]

I'm running on 13" MacBook Pro (no retina). Win 7 and Parallels 9 (which I think improved performance from 7&8). How much space did you allocate to the BootCamp HD? I partitioned 100GB and run Windows, WitPAE and MWIF no problem. Not sure you need the "-cpu2"? I also don't use -fd -r -multiaudio or -altfont

[oaltinyay]

Hi Bill

Not using a bootcamp , I am using Parallels Virtual desktop...

[Bill Durrant]

ORIGINAL: oaltinyay

Hi Bill

Not using a bootcamp , I am using Parallels Virtual desktop...

Yes I am as well - I think it still uses BootCamp to partition your HD to run Windows on

[witpqs]

I am assuming that you mean that the orders phase is painfully slow. Try adding this switch.

-SingleCpuOrders

[oaltinyay]

I added that line but still no improvement on speed

current settings are "C:\Matrix Games\War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -fd -px1920 -py1080 -skipVideo -deepColor –dd_sw -altFont -SingleCpuOrders

HDD size is 60 gigs from parallel

desktop size is 3360 X 2400 sth pixels in Windows and 'retina mode' in mac

I suspect that I am missing stf in the video settings here since even with px and py sizes , the witp screen seems to me 1024x 768, if I make it any bigger screen scrambles and only upper left quarter of loading screen is shown

[witpqs]

You have it set for full screen mode, have you tried windowed mode instead to see if that improves the situation?

[Bill Durrant]

Try taking all the extras out - also what version of Parallels? I seem to remember that the updates made stuff run much quicker.

[oaltinyay]

9.0.24247

Funny thing is this was working fine with my older parallels image, I did a clean install again and this comes up

[oaltinyay]

windowed or full screen doesnt make a change bw....

I am really confused. What's the difference...

can anyone tell me their workng configs for parallels and command switch lines ? ie how many megs for machine how many megs for Video ram etc ?....

[RogerJNeilson]

This is on a big desktop iMac - 16 GB memory, 3.4 GHz Intel, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675 MX 1024 MB

Parallels generals settings on screenshot.

Windows command line settings are:


War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition\War in the Pacific Admiral Edition.exe" -w -px1680 -py1050 -deepColor -altFont -archive -skipVideo -cpu2 -dd_sw

Don't know if any of that helps. My games run fine with that.

Roger

[oaltinyay]

Sir, I am in your debt...You have solved my most pressing problem and yet helped me into the abyss of family neglect... Greetings to "rainy island"