this graphics chip is even used for H264 hardware accelerated encoding by some applications even today (e.g. Fusion advertised supporting Metal 2 on the Mac (maybe not applicable here though?) the graphics chip supports Metal 2, Apple still supports it. the graphics chip is not directly used, it's all software emulated supposedly (?)

The integrated graphics chip is old, I know, but: I have a Mac Mini 2012 i7 quad, 16GB RAM, Intel Graphics HD4000 1.5GB VRAM - if that should matter. Is there some hack? Why isn't this officially supported?ĭoes anyone actually use VMWare Fusion 10 for macOS guest OS? is there a way to run more smoothly macOS guest OS on macOS host OS? Is there a way to change Graphics Memory on this to 256MB at least? why have a checkbox on 3d acceleration when it does not work on macOS guest OS - just disable it!) This is a product that came out a month ago. What makes this worse, is that I found people asking about this since years ago, but not finding an actual solution ever. What made it more disappointing is that the main competitor, Parallels, allows e.g 256MB of VRAM on macOS guest OS, which makes it run so much more smoothly. To be clear, I'm not talking about 3D acceleration (like the Maps.app that does not work) - this is understandable. All my queries lead to posts over years ago and techniques like editing settings svga.vramSize etc. I spent a lot of time looking on how to change this to no avail.

Just try Google Maps, on Chrome or Safari - unbearable. With VMWare Tools installed of course, I could only get it up to 128MB of graphics memory (VRAM) which is obviously not enough. what? How can they possibly advertise and ship this? This is laggy as hell. The guest OS is macOS High Sierra.Īnd then, sadly, I was like. I was really into moving my VM's to Fusion 10, it sounded very promising and fairly priced and so I started my 30-day trial on the standard version (not Pro)įrankly, some Windows VM's I checked were performing very good.īut, I also need macOS VM's to test some software on, and so I set up a Sierra (10.12.6) VM.

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