Hey there. I play on fulltilt on a mac. I use VMWare fusion to run windows. Been doing it for about six months with absolutely no problems. The last week or so suddenly it's gotten very laggy and occasionally freezes for maybe 15 seconds. Pretty bad if you're in a big pot.

Just wondering if anyone else has this same set up and encountered unexpected drop offs in performance?

Also, if anyone plays Fulltilt straight up on OS X if they have had any success with tracking software that is Mac compatible?

Thanks for any help!

Post system specs. It sounds like you don't have enough resources. Check disk space.

Have you tried Boot Camp?

There is a Mac tracker, don't remember the name. I haven't tried it, but it's clearly not going to be as good as the PC trackers. Do a search if you want to find it. There might be more than one.

Unless you realllly want to use Mac programs at the same time, I would play poker in Windows using Boot Camp.

I've been running the Mac version of FullTilt for a couple of years with no problems. Just started using a new Mac tracking program, PokerCopilot, and had no problems. There is a thread about this program here.

I used a macbook with parallels for about a year now and it works
well....although I have the occasional crash or freeze up. My macbook is
a 2 GB machine with 1GB dedicated to parallels.

Recently I bought a new iMac with 2GB also, but run all my poker stuff including
HEM under bootcamp. I prefer bootcamp to parallels. No resource problems
whatsoever, with plenty of power to spare.

Thanks for the responses. I don't know how I didn't know about boot camp. Basically wasted my money on fusion? Does anyone know if I can keep my current version of windows as is but start running it on boot camp now, or if I have to start over?

Do you use the VMWare Fusion install of windows for anything other than poker? If you'd been installing a bunch of stuff, windows tends to get slowed down by all the cruft that many programs set to run at start-up.

Run msconfig.exe and take a look at what's in the Startup tab. If there are a lot of programs running this could be part of the problem.

Are you running the Mcafee anti-virus that comes included with Fusion? If so I'd might disable that too as it will definitely slow things down.

Lastly, open up the task manager in windows (right click on the task bar and select start task manager) and just take a look at how many programs are running. If it's anything over 45 or so, that may be part of the problem too (which can probably be solved by eliminating things from start-up in msconfig).

If you don't want to run Mac programs at the same time as Windows programs, then ya, you wasted your money.

I'm actually not sure about the Windows thing. I'd be willing to bet you can find your answer on Google in less than 5 minutes though.