Looking for a way to connect Machine Simulator (standalone license) that is downloaded and located on my host computer to be able to connect and operate with RSLogix 5000 and RSLogix 5000 Emulator located on my Virtual Machine (VMware Workstation Pro w/ 4 cores & 8GB ram). I have already downloaded and installed Machine Simulator inside of the VM but it is not stable when ran in the VM and very laggy versus the fast and seamless quality of the Machine Simulator downloaded on my host. Is there a video or step-by-step method to achieve this?
Machines Simulator and RSLogix Emulator must be located in the same computer.
We haven't been able to get it to work if they're on different PCs; we believe this must be a limitation of RSL Emulator.
If anyone has been able to do this, please share the instructions.
On the other hand, if you have a powerful computer with good graphic, card, RAM and processor, it will work correctly in a virtual machine. In this mode, the PC needs more resources to run all the 'heavy' software pieces at the same time at a stable FPS.
I switched to Virtualbox VM (using Windows 10 64-Bit) and that has helped greatly. However I encountered another problem. I have downloaded and installed Machine Simulator in Virtualbox and now whenever I try to open Machine Simulator it crashes by loading a clear window of Machine Simulator 4 and then "UnityCrashHandler64.exe" shows up in the taskbar and pops up with a loading window with the Machine Simulator logo and a red exclamation point and then crashes completely.
In order to close the application and retry, I have to manually end the task in task manager. After many tries I noticed a pattern in the task manager. Every time the app crashes there are two tasks that take turns popping up. The first one, "MS4_Launcher (32bit)" will pop up and then once I end the task and reopen the Machine Simulator, a whole new task called "MS3 Launcher" pops up and I have to manually close that one too. Each take turns popping up every other time when closing and reopening and happens in that same order every time.
I have an i7 12700k CPU running at base settings (3.6 GHz CPU and 300 MHz graphics) with integrated graphics (Intel® UHD Graphics 770) and 32gb ram. I have no idea how the Machine Simulator graphics look inside of Virtualbox because it keeps crashing but the system itself seems like it should be able handle UHD Graphics 770 because the VMware Workstation was much choppier and though it ran much poorer before switching VMs, the app was still able to load with no issues.
Does this sound like a graphics issue? I am willing to overclock the CPU if I need to improve graphics.
CPU and Graphics Specs:
https://www.topcpu.net/en/cpu/Intel-Core-i7-12700K
Screenshots of Issues:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fxvp5oax0flj4jh9w8jlj/Screenshot-2025-07-05-021146.png?rlkey=fl354bmdpuk8q1pz3g557y2l8&st=c08uk2l1&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55zaoqqscfa71ltxt4sbc/Screenshot-2025-07-05-031940.png?rlkey=ffajl535at6uqpu4a3ron9faz&st=o2ri75o4&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4vdscbdd9h0g5t0an6ycz/Screenshot-2025-07-05-032044.png?rlkey=zhklseh0d7u053onh1bfzjs9z&st=ghq6tfvd&dl=0
[SOLVED] [CRASH ISSUE]
Machine Simulator opened after unchecking the 3d acceleration box in Virtualbox :D