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VMware Player 5.0
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Oliver G
G Enterprises
#1 - 2013-08-21 17:11:36 UTC
Hey everyone.

I am running Ubuntu 13.04 (64bit) Raring Ringtail as host operating system and Windows 7 (64bit) professional as guest operating system in VMware Player 5. Windows 7 is fully updated and the VMware Tools are installed. The 3D video acceleration is turned on and EVE Online runs perfectly. Hitting Ctrl+Alt+Shift+m shows me, that the game runs with about 60 FPS per second.

So far its all nice and dandy.

HOWEVER, I have noticed something weird:

When sitting in station, and spinning around the screen, I noticed a somewhat sluggish behavior. Its like the "image updating" cannot keep up with the mouse input. I have the feeling that this is related to the way the guest/host operating systems exchange mouse events, but that is just a wild guess.

Can anyone here provide any information on this issue or an attempt to solve this problem?

Regards,
G
Oliver G
G Enterprises
#2 - 2013-08-21 18:00:34 UTC
Brilliant, I was able to fix it myself.

As initially assumed, the problem was the host/guest mouse interaction. To fix the issue, you need to include the following two lines in your virtual machine's *.vmx file:

mouse.vusb.enable = "FALSE"
vmmouse.present = "FALSE"

It now runs so smooth as if I run EVE directly under Windows. Ass-kicking performance!
Chris Libby
Gallente Heavy Industries
#3 - 2013-10-17 17:04:37 UTC
Thanks for the post - what are you VM guest specs? how much memory are you allocating?