Poll of the Day > Anybody know anything about virtual machines and how to speed up the framerate?

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I'm recording footage of games that don't work on modern operating systems, using a Windows XP virtual machine with Virtualbox, and the video for it is really choppy. It doesn't matter if the machine is doing anything, even just moving the mouse on the desktop is noticeably low framerate. When I google around there's advice on improving general performance in a VM, but none of it has any effect and I'm thinking it's actually some kind of hard limit set on Virtualbox itself.

If push comes to shove I'll accept the choppy video if there's no way around it, but I can't help but thinking there's a really simple option I can toggle somewhere that will stop limiting the framerate and I just haven't found it.
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Maybe try allocating more memory to the VM?

Its not really the VM but the program you're using to access it. Try using the Windows RDP to access it. You will need to turn on remote access on the VM and get the IP to connect to it but once connected it should be faster.
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Can you not find a way to make Windows 10 backwards compatible with whatever you're playing? There's usually some good way to do that.

Apart from that, you may have to consider a dual boot situation because every VM I've worked with has had a video delay.

Although, if you can get it hosted somewhere like DrP says and RDP into it, you'll probably get much less in the way of delay. Maybe a little input delay but not so much from the video delay.
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Thanks, guys, sounds like virtual machine just wasn't the way to go.

Found an alternative method involving running windows 3.1 through DOSbox. A little bit of time figuring out how it works, but now it works flawlessly and buttery smooth.

Time to play some decades-old Sonic fangames. B]
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