Hey guys welcome back this is Bernardo from the BTNHD and yes hopefully you guys check
out my first video when I did the installation of the parallels desktop 16 for the Mac.
This is actually the machine that I use to install that application.
So if I click on this guy right here, we're going to go inside, about parallels desktop.
And this is the one that was running parallels desktop 16.
And on the last video we install Windows 10 on it.
And I wanted to see if parallels desktop 16 is able to handle gaming.
So the current machine that I'm using right now is a MacBook Pro 15 inch, for the processor
we're running an Intel i9 processor with a clock speed of 2.9 gigahertz with six cores,
this machine actually has around 32 gigs of memory, and for the graphics card it is actually
running a Radeon pro 560 X with four gigs of memory, then it comes with the standard
Intel HD Graphics 630, with about a gig of memory.
So right now I actually have.
If I open up my desktop, which is Windows I'm going to take the sticky out of here.
Awesome.
And I actually have fortnite installed by default parallels gives you two CPUs with
four gigs of memory.
I did notice a little bit of lag.
I'm going to have my son right now play fortnite and we're going to see how well it works.
So my son is ready to play fortnite and automatically we see a lag on the machine, using parallels
desktop.
As you can see it's taking forever to load up going inside the locker feature of fortnite.
And my son basically said, if he goes back into play tries to dance.
It's not doing the dance feature.
So right now, he is trying to wait until a game starts.
I'm about to tell him to stop it.
But if you go inside the CPU right here on parallels.
It is clocking right now around 82% of the CPU, which is kind of crazy, so I'm definitely
going to probably stop it and change the settings I'm going to go to the sprocket right here
in the corner and we go inside hardware.
And, again, like I said before, by default, you know parallels gives you two CPUs and
for memory four gigs.
This guy has about six cores so I'm probably upgrade to maybe four CPUs and eight gigs
and see how well it works.
All right, so we completely shut down the windows 10 within our Mac laptop.
I'm actually going to click on action.
So let's get a little closer we're going to go to action we are going to go and save config.
And within config we are definitely going inside the hardware tab, and like I said before,
by default, they give you two processes four gigs of memory so I'm going to hit this drop
down.
Let's get this guy.
Four processors.
And let's bump it up to, let's say, 8192.
Okay, so everything is locked in.
We change the processors to four, and the memory bumped it up to 8192, which is around
eight gigs of memory.
I'm actually going to close the configuration for this windows 10, and we are going to go
to action, and from action we are going to click on Start.
And we're going to launch this guy up one more time, and we're going to start fortnite
and see if those settings will work with parallels 16.
All right, so we finally configure the parallels desktop VM windows 10, we gave it four processors,
we gave a 16 gigs.
It's a little bit of lag but it's not as crazy as before.
If my son does one of those crazy little dances of thing.
Like if he does that one right there.
I mean you do see a little bit of lag with the type of settings that we did.
All right, so I did a little bit of digging on why this machine.
I mean the machine is spec up really good.
All right.
But when I look at the virtual machine, the processor is not really maxing out guys can
see right there.
You know it's not flatlining.
It's only using about half of the memory that I gave it.
And, Ethernet, you know it's not that bad.
So, the lag is really sucky I mean, my two cents is that parallels desktop 16 is not
great for gaming.
I'm going to allow my son to go in and actually play the game and see how well it works out.
He's over here shaking his head no.
But let's just go at it go for it go hit play.
Alright so we are finally in my son over his shaking his head because he's not used to
this slowness on the machine oh my god look at the lag on this game.
Uh, he really wants to like, quit because right now like look at it guys and look, if
I go right here and CPU is not even capping is not even read it's like 16%.
So it's really sucky when I looked at the task manager again, eight gigs of memory.
It was only using about half of it.
But look at that and that's it guys hopefully you guys enjoyed this video I want to know
your feedback leave your comments right below at the comments section oh my gosh look at
that it is horrible.
And my son is definitely going to leave the game.
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And yes, my son is definitely my, my son just left the game because it's just horrible.
I catch you guys on the next one.
Peace out.