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Parallels slow crosshairs

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mkinler
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Parallels slow crosshairs

I'm running 2008 LT on a new macbook 2.2 GHz / 4 GB memory. There is a slight delay when I move the mouse and when the crosshairs move. This does not happen when the curser is out of the drawing screen and appears as an arrow. Any ideas?
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Anonymous
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Of course there is a delay. You are running an emulator. That means that
everything that you do has to be read by the Mac operating system,
transferred to Windows, and then executed. You are only getting 1 cpu
cycle out of every 4 or 5 to actually do anything that you want instead
of 2 out of every 3 as is typical when running in Windows directly. An
emulator is fine if you are running small software or software designed
for slower machines, but that isn't ACAD.

If you really want to run ACAD on a Mac, you need to use Boot Camp to
get the efficiency back up there. In fact, running Boot Camp results in
one of the faster Windows machines available.

mkinler wrote:
> I'm running 2008 LT on a new macbook 2.2 GHz / 4 GB memory. There is a slight delay when I move the mouse and when the crosshairs move. This does not happen when the curser is out of the drawing screen and appears as an arrow. Any ideas?
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Anonymous
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You mouse your mouse and the cursor eventually follows? I believe that's a
common issue with Macs, Windows, and AutoCAD.
Are you running dual-boot or a virtual-instance of Windows?

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