My environment/settings:
- Macbook Pro 13" retina with 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 16 GB memory
- Flare 11 on Parallels 10 VM with Windows 8.1
- 8GB of memory allocated to the VM
- No other user-installed programs running on the VM besides Flare (and sometimes Capture)
- Habitually shut down all non-essential applications or memory hogs (browsers) on the host OS
When things seem to be running normally, if I open the \Content\Resources\Images folder, Flare continues to refresh the Content Explorer pane many times (stuck in a loop?). After it finishes looping, Flare freezes at the end of the \Images\C*.* files, and then takes several minutes to render the rest of the image files.
Another thing that brings Flare to its knees is moving files from one location to another. I probably need to open a new topic just for that issue alone.
During these underperforming events, the OS X Activity Monitor shows 4 GB of memory is still free. The Windows Task Manager is under 20% CPU and memory, each. However, I noticed what appears to be two instances of Flare running. One for the app and one for my project?
Are there any performance tweaks those of you using Flare on a VM can share?