Virtual PC 5 on OS X is slow. Anyway to get performance better?

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Virtual PC 5 on OS X is slow. Anyway to get performance better?

Well I finally got it to run in OS X mode (it for some reason wouldnt recognise my password and finally after it not recognising my password I closed the password window and it worked!) and it is quite slow. Ive noticed Windows 2000 Pro is faster then Windows 98. I have 128MB of RAM on my G3 iMac running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.5).
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iMac DV 400MHZ, Mac OS X (10.4.5), I have many older Macs

Posted on Mar 17, 2006 2:45 PM

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Mar 17, 2006 2:48 PM in response to Apple Rules

VPC is going to be slow on any Mac, as it is emulation of an operating system consisting of billions of lines of code.

Especially on your computer with a G3 processor, slow bus speed and only 128MBs of RAM, which is barely enough to even run the Tiger OS itself.

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Mar 17, 2006 2:51 PM in response to Templeton Peck

I would run it in OS 9 but I keep getting a low on memory error constantly.

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