I'm trying to determine the optimal settings for my running my VM for games on my iMac and would like some help determining if I need to make any changes to my set up.
My current setup is:
2013 27" iMac
3.2 GHz
8GB Ram
NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M 1024 MB OSX 10.9.1
1 TB Fusion HD
I've installed VMware Fusion 6 with Win 7 x64 as the guest OS
The current VM settings are:
using 2 cores
memory, 5632
Accelerate 3d graphics is on
HD virtual disk is set to 100GB (but the C drive in Win still shows 60GB?)
I have installed VMware tools which loaded an alternate graphics driver bur I can't figure out which driver.
The game I'm most interested in running is Skyrim V Elder Scrolls. This runs great on my Mac Book Pro with boot camp but is pretty choppy in the VM. I know it won't be perfect but I'm sure I can at least get it to be playable.
My questions are, what should I change to get the best performance for games ion the VM? I don't leave the VM running except to play a game so I don't care if it takes performance away from the Mac OS while its on. I'd like to know how to enlarge the actual C drive to match the virtual HD space I gave it, and how I can tell if I am running the most appropriate graphics driver?
Any advice or help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
David