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Affinity in Virtualbox is slow - any tips for speeding things up?


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Linux host, Windows 10 VM.

The OS is fresh install running from SSD.

CPU is 3.4ghz with an allocation to the VM of 4gb RAM

CPU virt settings are enabled

Full allocation of VRAM

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But the application runs with a significant delay between mouse movement and rendering on screen.

I really would like to continue using Affinity because I love it. However I am done with Windows and will not be moving back to it in future.

Anyone have any joy with this sort of setup making the app run at a reasonable speed?

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4GB ram is small. As a first step you might bump that up significantly.

But the bigger issue might be whether you have access to the physical GPU, which is used for such things as rendering the image on-screen, and would include functions such as moving and drawing with the mouse.

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