Visual Studio 2012 slow interface in Parallels

Question

I am running Windows 8 as a virtual machine in Parallels 8 on a MAC Pro 2.4Gz Quad with 16 gigabyte RAM

I just upgraded to VS 2012, and I find everything working, except when loading resource files or project settings files.

The user interface is incredibly slow when displaying each line on the screen; a resource file with 1000 lines takes about 20 seconds to display!

Worst of all, when you go to the source code and then return to the open resource file, it should display each line again!

I am moving back and forth between resource files and source code, and it is very slow and impossible to develop anything!

I tried disabling the visual effects of VS / hardware acceleration, etc. to no avail.

Does anyone have any other problems?

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George filippakos Apr 13 '13 at 10:51

1 answer

George filippakos · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-13T11:09:30+0000

I was able to speed up the rendering by switching the virtual machine to using directX 9 instead of version 10.

If you have the same problems, on your virtual machine Configuration, select Video and change:

3D Acceleration: Version 9