Quote Originally Posted by bipper View Post
It is slightly funny, cause running the linux install with windows atop, spawned less headaches. The chop was hardly noticeable.

With your set-up, O_o, did you have any pointers on lowering the chop through the VMware. Outside of upping my ram of course? Just curious, as like I said, when slack was the base, and windows was emulated, it went smooth cakes. Now it has a good chop with windows being the base, and linux being emulated. I haven't had much time to play, but I am not sure where to point the finger at, at the moment.
I'm running a Windows guest on a Gentoo host, so I don't know if it'll be relevant but the biggest performance increase came from the SVGA driver that comes with VMWare Tools. Coupled with 512 MB of RAM for the VM and DirectX support I'm able to play Morrowind without too many glitches.