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Issue with Mac and Parallels [Fixed]

 
Author Steve

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#1 | Posted: 24 May 2024 07:09 
It would seem that Parallels has an issue that we have somehow triggered with the latest ColourSpace release...

The issue is ColourSpace taking longer than expected to open - but then running correctly when open.

As native Windows on PC works perfectly, as does Windows on Mac via VMware, on the same Mac that has issues with Parallels, this is obviously not an actual bug in ColourSpace.
Consequently, we have no idea at all what has triggered the issue in Parallels, so cannot make any changes to 'fix' something we have not actually broken.

Parallels users may want to take this up with Parallels.

Interestingly, on my M1 Mac while Parallels does take longer to open the latest ColourSpace release, it is not that slow, and can be randomly faster/slower.
And VMware on the same M1 Mac has no issues.

That does mean there is nothing specific we can do to try to fix Parallel's issue, as only Parallels has any issue.
It may be a future ColourSpace release will somehow stop triggering the Parallels issue, but we obviously can't guarantee that.

As VMware is free, probably best to swap to that until Parallels fix their issue - or somehow ColourSpace stops triggering the issue.
Or just wait a little longer for ColourSpace to open, as it then works fine...

Steve
Steve Shaw
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Author Steve

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#2 | Posted: 24 May 2024 10:52 
The issue does seem even more strange...
It seems some Macs also show a slow opening of ColourSpace with VMware.
While the M1 Mac is ok with VMware, M2 Macs seems to show the same slow opening of ColourSpace as with Parallels.



There are obviously some issues with Virtualisation on Macs - maybe Apple Silicon only?
The issues are being triggered by ColourSpace, but why is unknown.

What can be seen is very high CPU usage on Mac when ColourSpace is opening.
On native Windows, the CPU usage on ColourSpace opening hardly increases, showing the issue is not directly a ColourSpace issue...
As to what the issue is, we still have no idea.

Steve
Steve Shaw
Mob Boss at Light Illusion

Author Steve

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#3 | Posted: 30 May 2024 12:17 
It looks like we have worked-out what it is in the latest release of ColourSpace that is triggering the slow program opening when Parallels and VMware is being used...
It is not a ColourSpace bug, but we think we can overcome the issue Parallels/VMware has.

More testing to do, but hopefully an update will be released shortly.

Steve
Steve Shaw
Mob Boss at Light Illusion

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