Somedays ago i have updated from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10.
I use Delphi 2007 and Delphi XE in a daily basis, and i've noticed that in both IDEs the normal use seems to be a lot slower than it was in Windows 8.1. Compiling a project seems to take more time than it took previously.
I don't know if it could be the cause but i use Windows in a virtual environment with Parallels. But everything in Win 8 seems to be more fluid.
I don't have any anti-virus and Windows Defender is disabled.
I also noticed that when i compile a project, the CPU never goes higher than 40%, so it seems maybe Delphi is not using all available CPU power for some reason.
My machine is a Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM / Core i7 / SSD. The virtual machine has 3GB of RAM because i use the machine only to Delphi, no more programs opened at the same time. Used memory never reaches more than 2GB.
Does anyone noticed this problem ? Anything i could do to improve ?
Thanks in advance !
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To develop window driver I make vs 2013 + vmware debugging environment.
My pc spec is good.
When i use win7 normally in vmware, it's performance is good.
But once i start debugging, it show very bad performance in vmware, not host pc. Host pc is not bad.
Even I can't make folder in foreground of vmware.
I also use virtualKD + pure windbg. It's same...
My processor is i5, and ram is 8G. I allocate 2 processor and 2G to vmware.
Why is debugging performace very bad?
I must develop driver within a few day... I have no time.
Pretty straightforward, 2GB isn't enough RAM. Give at least 4.
Today i tryed to install wp8 sdk and it installed successfully. but when i'm trying to open visual studio my pc going crash and restart every time. I think its mainboard v-hiper problem or something else. my pc informations
Packard Bell TJ75
CPU : I5 430M
Ram : 3 GB
Graphics : HD 5650 1 GB
BIOS : Phoenix Tec. LTD
how can i fix that problem ?
-Thanks,
Sorry for my english.
What is the crash? A bluescreen? And what codes? Does system event log say anything interesting?
I don't think Visual Studio will try to start the phone emulator until you actually try to debug a phone project in it, so I don't see the immediate connection to Hyper-V.
Does your system crash when you open Visual Studio with no active project? That might absolve Hyper-V.
Alternatively, can you create some other virtual machine image (e.g, from Ubuntu or another Windows), and try booting that one? If your host machine crashes when you do that, then it would implicate Hyper-V.
Windows can crash if it gets too tight on system RAM, and 3G of RAM is not very generous. Both Visual Studio and Hyper-V use a lot of RAM, so you might indeed have problems running them both at the same time.
Assuming we have to stay on Windows XP x86, what would be the best spec for working in Visual Studio 2010 with ReSharper, PowerTool and a couple of other smaller add-ons?
Components we can upgrade are:
CPU
RAM
HDD
Graphics
At the moment, I have a Pentium Dual-Core E5300 2.6GHz with 4GB RAM and ReSharper makes Visual Studio crash in a solution of around 2000 files.
Really should be moving to Win 7, or at least Win Vista. There is MASSIVE improvements in VS just by running on top of those.
As you stated XP x86, some suggestions:
Ram: 4Gb as fast as you can get. This is important but also only depends on number of VS instances and solution size. At 4Gb I would suggest staying in the low solution bracket (< 25 projects).
CPU: Fast as you can get. Multi core helps a bit, but a lot of the VS UI is single threaded on the GUI.
HDD: VS is a harddrive monster, so fast hard drive. SSD especially here. Spend the money here FIRST. R# perf bottle neck is the file scanning so this will help with this too.
Graphics: Far more important than you would think, mostly due to the fact VS uses WPF and hardware acceleration. Very important to get a good graphics card with STABLE drivers. VS 2010 SP1 disables hardware acceleration on XP by default (can be turned on in the settings) because so many VS 2010 crashes on XP are from unstable graphic drivers and WPF hits those issues a lot. If you get a good stable one, turn that setting on!
Another issue is also just regular restarts, VS does a lot in memory and isn't too good at cleaning up. So the stack fills quickly and it will crash often (PerfWaston is looking for this info) so a restart every so often helps.
As I said at the start your best bet is also one of the cheapest (compared to new hardware) upgrade to Win7, especially x64. More RAM, better SSD support, more stable OS, there is a lot in there that will help your VS experience be faster and more stable.
I would highly recommend moving to 64-bit. Even if you just have 4GB addressable ram with Visual studio, it will have access to more memory if you get more than 4GB of RAM.
Also, get faster hard drives. SSD or RAID 5. I'd pick this over a faster CPU.
I am hoping for some advice in partitioning my new MacBook Pro's 500GB drive. If possible I would like to create two partitions with one (the smaller) being used for Windows development, occasionally. I am not sure which Windows OS I will be installing (probably Windows 7). I will also be installing Visual Studio, and several browsers: IE, Safari, Firefox, etc.
So, the question is how small can I make this partition? Would 100GB be enough?
I am also getting a Mac mini for Windows development but I want to have an on-the-road option just in case.
100GB would be more than enough. I have virtualbox running Windows XP with 15 GB and I have had Visual Studio 2008 installed with comfortable amounts of space left.
Windows 7 though, eats disk space. I'd say for 32-bit 25GB-30GB should be enough. For 64-bit though, I'd recommend at least 40GB.
I just bought a MacBookPro (13", 250HD, and 4GB Ram) because, among other things, I would like to write iPhone Apps.
I need, anyway, to use VS2010 so I think about installing Sun Virtual Box (I've used and I like it) to run Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 and SqlExpress2008.
Have you tried it? How many RAM GBs should I reserve for Windows? If I assign 2GB to Windows, will my Mac run fine with the remaining 2GB?
Thanks!
I run Windows 7 and VS 2010 in VMWare Fusion on my Macbook. It has 2GB of RAM, and I've allocated 1GB to the virtual machine. It can be a bit slow at times, but not massively
I've been running Windows XP and Visual Studio in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro for about a year. I've found that allocating 2GB to Windows and 2 to OS X seems to work well. Everything runs smoothly as long as you don't try to run too much in the host OS (don't try running Mail, iTunes, Firefox, etc all at the same time). I've not run into any trouble running a slew of apps in the VM.
All that being said, I've not tried it running Windows 7 and with it's higher RAM requirements I wouldn't be surprised if you ran into issues.