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Mac Forum / Applications / Virtual PC / September 2005VPC 7.0.2 & Xara x1
I have a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz with 2GB RAM with Mac OSX 10.4.2 and am running VPC 7.0.2 with WinXP. I am trying to use Xara x1 within the VPC environment. I can install the application with no errors. When I try to start the .exe file, the CPU usage goes to 100% and never really recovers. I never get a splash/start up screen or anything. Eventually I have to kill the process or restart VPC. I have verified that I have 128MB RAM allocated, 4MB for VRAM and all the nice UI stuff turned off to allow for best performance within VPC. The requirements for Xara are below: Microsoft Windows 98/Me/2000/XP Pentium processor or better 64Mb RAM 20Mb available hard disk space Minimum screen resolution of 640x480 I have run QuickBooks Pro 2005 (which is pretty intensive) and it runs fine in VPC. Any ideas are appreciated! Hope > I have a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz with 2GB RAM with Mac OSX 10.4.2 and am > running VPC 7.0.2 with WinXP. I am trying to use Xara x1 within the VPC [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Any ideas are appreciated! > Hope Does Xara X1 check the speed of the system (e.g. does it do something to check that you're running on a Pentium of a specific speed)? If that's the case, what does the vendor of Xara say about you running on VPC? Will they support it (and take out any code that relies on checking the processor, which may be your problem)? Of not, I guess you're SOL.  SignatureDeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee... Their support team said it didn't but they also said they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work. :( You might try running the app after toggling compatibility mode via the script menu (VPC preferences to enable that). If their application relies on self-modifying code, that could help. Toggle it again when you're done, as it does slow things down. Thank you for the suggestion, I did try it and same result. I just heard back from their support who said they get it to work fine in VPC. ???? I am at a loss. Thank you for the suggestion, I did try it and same result. I just heard back from their support who said they get it to work fine in VPC. ???? I am at a loss. Well!!! I went onto the Microsoft support newsgroups and found some tips on improving performance of Virtual PC's. I followed all the instructions (although some settings were already set the way they reccomended) and now Xara will start up. It takes a while to first get going, but once it starts up - it runs okay. Thanks for all your tips, replies and assistance. Hope |
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