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ya that's the key
Doing that allowed me to get Lego StarWars 2 to start, but then it just crashed.
all in all, I guess my bootcamp partition is staying where it is.....
Okay. This is good. I bought Parallels a long time ago and it was a pretty terrible experience, just bought the update. It's so smooth now! It's running my games in development, which haven't even been optimised yet. Tormishire fliiiies
I'm too impressed! I cannot wait to see how HL2 runs. It's even recognised my Wired 360 controller!
Tomorrow I will get 30gb from my hard XP partition.
I'd use exclamation marks but my excited is dulled through tiredness this is just mind blowing. I actually cannot see how this could be made any better short of minute performance enhancements!
I'm too impressed! I cannot wait to see how HL2 runs. It's even recognised my Wired 360 controller!
Tomorrow I will get 30gb from my hard XP partition.
I'd use exclamation marks but my excited is dulled through tiredness
this is just mind blowing. I actually cannot see how this could be made any better short of minute performance enhancements!
Its true Microsoft is vague on this. Most articles are peoples interpretations, but, look at this link:
http://forums.parallels.com/thread11690.html
That would be enough to keep me from risking it. I would personally play it safe and go for Business or Ultimate. Then again, for virtualization, I prefer XP.
For me, Parallels are repeating the same misinterpretation, it's easy to do when you read legalese quickly and you're not a lawyer. I suspect Microsoft may have worded the EULA to introduce this FUD.
Has anyone actually asked Microsoft for clarification? I see no evidence of a reply if so. I might just email them myself.
Parallels 3.0 atm is not perfect, sure it can play games but that really depends on your definition of playability. If your definitions of playable is that 5 fps is ok then Parallels 3.0 is awesome However 3.0 is a good upgrade however I think the marketing of 3D graphics capabilities is a hyperbole. I mean by advertising the ability to play Quake, WoW, HL:2 it really seemed like you could play almost 'any' game.
What I tried
Guild Wars barely playable very choppy
HL:2 / CS:Source a bit choppy
Pro Evolutions Soccer decent
Football Manager 2007 practically the same as native
However 3.0 is a good upgrade however I think the marketing of 3D graphics capabilities is a hyperbole. I mean by advertising the ability to play Quake, WoW, HL:2 it really seemed like you could play almost 'any' game.What I tried
Guild Wars barely playable very choppy
HL:2 / CS:Source a bit choppy
Pro Evolutions Soccer decent
Football Manager 2007 practically the same as native
Here is a selection of games I have tried on my macbook 1.8ghz with 1Gb ram, all memory split evenly between osx and xp, and parallels running with added importance over osx.
Command And Conquer Red Alert 1 (DX 3) - 256 colour, frame rate fine but colours make it unplayable.
Theme Hospital (DX 4/5) 16 colour, frame rate great but colours make it unplayable.
Railroad Tycoon 2 (DX 8.1), rubbish 256 colour problem again.
Chris Sawyers Locomotion (DX 9b) 256 colour, frame rate great but colours make it unplayable.
So all in all it was a pretty rubbish experience, all the games were working in very low colour which made them unplayable
Command And Conquer Red Alert 1 (DX 3) - 256 colour, frame rate fine but colours make it unplayable.
Theme Hospital (DX 4/5) 16 colour, frame rate great but colours make it unplayable.
Railroad Tycoon 2 (DX 8.1), rubbish 256 colour problem again.
Chris Sawyers Locomotion (DX 9b) 256 colour, frame rate great but colours make it unplayable.
So all in all it was a pretty rubbish experience, all the games were working in very low colour which made them unplayable
as expected f.e.a.r doesn't work, it loads and when you get to start a new game the game freezes on the storyline. also there doesn't seem to be full screen support for games. Well i couldn't go on without having the latest parallels version though i knew gaming won't be very good on it. well....
hhmm why are the games working ok for you guys>>??<< for me cod2 runs like a dog. not even playable. literally 1fps
I like parallels and paid for the 3.0 upgrade like so many others sight unseen. Can't say I am thrilled. I have not been able to get any game running at all. I tried several demos downloads of first person shooters. Hell in Vietnam, and two others. Didn't try HL2 yet but was planning on it until I read some of these posts. Perhaps an update will be forthcoming to speed things up. Interesting side note now my WMV files don't play in Parallels but they did before the upgrade.
Has anyone tried Sims 2? I know there's a Mac version, but I've already paid for the Windows versions and don't want to rebuy so my daughters can play on the "other" computer.
Has anyone tried EVE Online yet?
I use it with Crossover Office now, but this solution kind of sucks (too many bugs to my taste).
I use it with Crossover Office now, but this solution kind of sucks (too many bugs to my taste).
Just to finish off - I decided to call Microsoft UK about Vista licensing within a virtual environment. Even they didn't know the answer and had to get back to me. Anyway, I'm now awaiting a public statement to the effect that the EULA cause does indeed refer only to already-installed licenses, i.e. OEM only. Buy a full copy of Vista [any version] and you can run it. Just don't quote me until those in Redmond clarify it on their blog or wherever hopefully this week .
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The update is good but not that good, there 3D abilities are not at 100% dont expect 100% native solution like bootcamp, Havent tried cnc3 via parallels but it works fine on bootcamp on my macbook.
on the plus side I have got 3ds Max9 to work in parallels but has to render in software mode, which is not optimal, but better than booting in bootcamp takes time and bad fan control....
on the plus side I have got 3ds Max9 to work in parallels but has to render in software mode, which is not optimal, but better than booting in bootcamp takes time and bad fan control....
It doesn't work under VMWare Fusion beta 4. It needs DirectX 9 but Fusion only have 8.1.
I haven't tried it under Parallels.
Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour is playable!
Yes, that is right, C&C is playable on a MacBook with a GMA950 in Parallels! I am so impressed, it probably gets around 15-20 FPS. One little problem though: some of the ground textures do not appear, but that be the installation. I'll try reinstalling it tomorrow.Setup:
Mac Pro 2.66 w. 7600GT and 1GB running 10.4.9
Installed Parallels 3.0 follwed by XP (SP2) and then popped in the Medieval 2 Total War DVD. Installed fine, apart from the battles not loading it plays pretty well too. Now that I've got half of europe it's slowed down a bit on the campaign map, apart from that it's fully playable. Is it possible to allocate more Video Memory to it at all? I've currently got the slider maxed out to 64MB (apparently M2TW shouldn't even start with less than 128MB!). Do you guys with better graphics cards get the option to allocate more than I do?
Cheers
Hannibales
Mac Pro 2.66 w. 7600GT and 1GB running 10.4.9
Installed Parallels 3.0 follwed by XP (SP2) and then popped in the Medieval 2 Total War DVD. Installed fine, apart from the battles not loading it plays pretty well too. Now that I've got half of europe it's slowed down a bit on the campaign map, apart from that it's fully playable. Is it possible to allocate more Video Memory to it at all? I've currently got the slider maxed out to 64MB (apparently M2TW shouldn't even start with less than 128MB!). Do you guys with better graphics cards get the option to allocate more than I do?
Cheers
Hannibales
