visual studio 2012 slow UI in Parallels

Question

I am running Windows 8 as a virtual machine in Parallels 8 on MAC Pro 2.4Gz Quad with 16 Gig RAM

I have just upgraded to VS 2012 and I find everything working well except when loading resource files or project setting files.

The UI is incredibly slow at rendering each line to the screen; a resource file with 1000 lines takes about 20 seconds to display!

Worst of all , when you flip to source code and then back to the open resource file , it has to render each line all over again!!

I flip back and forth between resource files and source code and it is painfully slow and impossible to develop anything!

I have tried turning off VS visual effects/hardware acceleration etc to no avail.

Is anybody else having these problems?

Answer 1

I managed to speed up rendering by switching the VM to use directX 9 instead of version 10.

If you are having the same problems, in your virtual machine Config select Video and change:

3D acceleration: Version 9