Re: Windows 7 + XP Mode Issues

jerryrelease · Post by **jerryrelease** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 11:18 am

Hey,

Just a quick heads up to anyone who is playing UOSA in XP-Mode (virtual PC) under Windows 7:

On Fri/Sat I had a big problem with my XP-mode virtual pc running at extremely high CPU with razor/UO client. Resulted in piss poor performance and unplayable frame rates. I uninstalled the client, razor, .NET , all recent Windows updates both on the host Windows 7 and the XP-mode box. Recreated a new XP-mode box and then almost punched my monitors out. Nothing was working.

Good thing is that there is a happy ending. Well not a true happy ending but one that ended up in the game being playable again. I disabled the integrations on the virtual PC settings for the XP-mode box. Basically disabled it from starting up and disabled all of the individual components. Didn't go as far as to troubleshoot exactly what integration was causing the problem - but something that changed on the host that is part of the integration package was futzing things up.

So if you ever run into some strange CPU hogging behaviour on your Windows 7 XP-Mode virtual PC - disable the integrations!

JR

Batlin · Post by **Batlin** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 4:40 pm

I suggest trying VMWare Player also, it's free and it can import the XP Mode virtual machine.

Dagon · Post by **Dagon** » Mon Aug 30, 2010 5:43 pm

I suggest just not doing any of that to begin with... you're just asking for problems.