3D Game Audio severely delayed in Parallels 6

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I've been playing Battlefield 2 happily for months under Parallels 5 with no major issues, then I buy an upgrade to 6 and not only did the game performance get slightly worse, the audio is significantly delayed, sometimes by up to a second when firing a weapon in the game.

Has anyone else noticed a degredation in gaming performance after upgrading?

BTW I a running Window 7 from the Boot Camp partition.
 
Same problem with Tomb Raider Anniversary under WinXP!!!

Also different problem with Simpsons Hit and Run just being jerky, not smooth gameplay.
 
It appears to be an intermittent problem, because yesterday it was not happening at all. I haven't figured out if it's related to any other programs running.
 
Hello, can you create and send problem report (Help -> Report a Problem) to us (aftrer sound delay happend) and post its number here ?
 
I have problem with both sound and slow 3D performance. But, I was under the impression that the slow 3D was casued by the buffer underrun on the sound device. Here is the snapshot from the log:

09-18 12:03:42.928 W /LocalDevices:58439:c737/ [CSoundOutputDevice] Buffer underrun, silence 49 of 64 frames
09-18 12:03:43.041 W /LocalDevices:58439:c737/ [CSoundOutputDevice] Buffer underrun, silence 7 of 64 frames
 
This may help to prevent buffer underrun.

set boot flag (VM configuration -> Hardware -> Boot Order -> Boot flags):
"devices.audio.playback.latency = 100", default value is only 10 (milliseconds)
 
gr8bluesgtr said:
I've been playing Battlefield 2 happily for months under Parallels 5 with no major issues, then I buy an upgrade to 6 and not only did the game performance get slightly worse, the audio is significantly delayed, sometimes by up to a second when firing a weapon in the game.

Has anyone else noticed a degredation in gaming performance after upgrading?

BTW I a running Window 7 from the Boot Camp partition.
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Thank you for this report. It looks like we found possible reason of such sound delay and it will be fixed in one of the next updates.

But we still can not reproduce 3D performance degradation on Battlefield 2. According to our measurements on MBP:

BattleField 2 / Singleplay / amerbase / Default video settings / 9600GT256 / 10.6.4GrUpd in MacOS / 1024x768
· PD 5 - 41 FPS when sound is OFF, 36 FPS when sound is ON
· PD 6 - 70-75 FPS when sound is ON

Could you please run VM with BF2 then generate problem report and tell me ID ? (Help -> Report a Problem)
 
FYI. I still have the same sound issue after setting "devices.audio.playback.latency = 100". Anyway, it is good to hear that it will be fixed in one of the next updates. Looking forward to it. Thank you.
 
BF2 problem

I have same problem with sound & more glitches and white textures in 3D (on Parallels5 I played with small problems).
Please give me back BF2. I buyed Parallels only for this game
 
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