Daz Studio on VMware Workstation - terrible performance, often freezes system
by Crotalid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#52SGP)
I am running VMware Workation 15 (15.5.2), for the sole reason of running Daz Studio under my Kubuntu Linux system. I tried running Daz under Wine, which actually works very well (much better than this VM) but the issue I had was that the font was basically unreadably small while running it in Wine.
Unfortunately, while the fonts are fine while using VMware (guest system Windows 10 Pro), the performance is not that great, and worse, it frequently freezes my computer, or causes massive slowdowns. Sometimes I can manage to exit Daz Studio before it completely freezes up, but it's difficult when the mouse isn't responding very well. I've had to reset my system dozens of times while working in Daz Studio.
This behavior is getting really old and it's disrupting my work.
I'm aware that virus scanners can cause problems on VM's, so I don't have any running. Unfortunately I'm using multiple files for my VM virtual disk, so I think that may have something to do with it. Would using a single, preallocated file be a better solution?
Otherwise, I'm not sure what to do about this. Any suggestions?
Also, I am running a Ryzen 7 2700X with 32GB of RAM, of which I allocate 8GB to the VM. The VM system files are on my boot partition, on a fast Samsung 970 Evo SSD.
Unfortunately, while the fonts are fine while using VMware (guest system Windows 10 Pro), the performance is not that great, and worse, it frequently freezes my computer, or causes massive slowdowns. Sometimes I can manage to exit Daz Studio before it completely freezes up, but it's difficult when the mouse isn't responding very well. I've had to reset my system dozens of times while working in Daz Studio.
This behavior is getting really old and it's disrupting my work.
I'm aware that virus scanners can cause problems on VM's, so I don't have any running. Unfortunately I'm using multiple files for my VM virtual disk, so I think that may have something to do with it. Would using a single, preallocated file be a better solution?
Otherwise, I'm not sure what to do about this. Any suggestions?
Also, I am running a Ryzen 7 2700X with 32GB of RAM, of which I allocate 8GB to the VM. The VM system files are on my boot partition, on a fast Samsung 970 Evo SSD.