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- ratzfatz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+49The following 3D applications and games are known to be compatible with Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac 3D hardware virtualization:
• Autodesk AutoCAD 2008 (mouse synchronization should be off to achieve better experience)
• AeroFly Pro Deluxe
• AVID SoftImage XSI 5.11
• RhinoCeros 4
• SketchUp Pro 6
• SolidWorks 2007
• Alien Arena 2007 (OpenGL)
• Baldur's Gate 2 (Direct3D)
• Call of Duty (OpenGL)
• Counter Strike 1.6 (OpenGL/Direct3D)
• Descent 3 (OpenGL)
• Doom 3 (OpenGL)
• Duke Nukem Manhattan Project (OpenGL)
• Dungeon Siege 2 (Direct3D)
• Far Cry (OpenGL)
• GORE - Ultimate Soldier (OpenGL)
• Half Life (OpenGL/Direct3D)
• Hitman Codename 47 (OpenGL)
• Hitman Silent Assasin (OpenGL)
• Hitman Contracts (OpenGL)
• Max Payne (Direct3D)
• Max Payne 2 (Direct3D)
• Neverball (OpenGL)
• Prey (OpenGL)
• Quake 1 GL (OpenGL)
• Quake 2 (OpenGL)
• Quake 3 Arena (OpenGL)
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein (OpenGL)
• Scorched 3D (OpenGL)
• Serious Sam The First Encounter (OpenGL)
• Serious Sam The Second Encounter (OpenGL)
• SiN (OpenGL)
• Tribes (OpenGL)
• Unreal Tournament 2004 (OpenGL)
• Warcraft 3 (OpenGL)
• Worms 3D (OpenGL) - meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -9/+50Very clever use of the digg button, macupdate. Very clever indeed.....
- troelsbay, on 10/11/2007, -4/+33Hasn't "coherence" mode been around for a while? What am I missing here?
- colincornaby, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22"Warcraft 3 (OpenGL)"
What the crap? There is a Mac version of Warcraft 3, it can play multiplayer with the PC version of Warcraft III, and every copy of Warcraft 3 shipped with the Mac and PC version. Why bother having this on the list? - mentor972, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19For the love of God, someone please tell me if Lemmings works with this.
- meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21Well the thing that interests me is that the WWDC is around the corner and both Parallels and Boot Camp were updated today.
Coincidence? I think not - meatmcguffin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18@m1ss1ontomars
You're a hypocrite. Why? It looks like he posted a torrent of the app because the official site is going slowly and where are the pirated serials on that site?
Torrents != Piracy - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I have a feeling Apple might acquire SWSoft and integrate Parallels technology directly into Mac OS X Leopard.
This would be a show stopper, folks. - tizz66, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18It's only the fanboys that bitch about Microsoft and Windows. The rest of us use OSX because we prefer it, but would still like to have access to Windows applications because some are better and sometimes we need to test our work in a Windows environment.
Why would I bother buying another computer when I can use software like Parallels to achieve the same thing? - drd417, on 10/11/2007, -5/+20Send me $100, I'll send you a 100% legal key. How's that?
- soopafly, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15There's MAME for the Mac yo!
- coldfusion1970, on 10/11/2007, -4/+17I agree.
Nice little feature you've added. - benjaminradler, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12so where the fook is my trial key
- audiowizard, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13holy cow, this seamlessness is frightening.....
- wastern, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12>>Hasn't "coherence" mode been around for a while? What am I missing here?
I'm sure this new version will do it a little better. Not to mention this version supports Direct X 8, which means you can now game in the VM instead of booting into Windows via BootCamp. It also allows you to set Windows apps as the default application for filetypes in OS X, so you can just double click on a Word doc in Finder and it will launch Parallels and winword - cyphin6, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17Is anyone else feel like creaming their pants with this release??
- steelmaverick, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I see what you did there...
- schmons, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12it doesn't mention cs:source in that list, i hope that is a mistake =(
can anyone confirm/deny? - Jeffrey903, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Does anyone know if Aero works with this release with Vista?
- kiantech, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11oh yeah microsoft is sooo mad....I think they are happy that people are excited to buy their operating system and run it, they still get money for the product. And apple is happy because people are buying their hardware and giving OSX a chance. It's a win win...so pretty much get a life.
- mank, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9It does support Vista via BootCamp!
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29555
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Vista Boot Camp Support: Yep, its here! Use your Windows Vista Boot Camp or Windows XP Boot Camp partition in a Parallels virtual machine. Switch between running Windows in Parallels Desktop and Boot Camp as often as you want!
[/quote] - Jammypac, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10It's like this: Personally, I vastly prefer OSX over Windows. 98% of the applications I use for work and play are for OSX. It's nice that when I have a 2% case where I need windows to run an app, I can quickly launch Parallels/XP, use the app, and then return to OSX.
It's not a matter of blindly hating Windows, just a matter of preference.
^^ I can't believe you beat me by seconds. >:^( - caesar0801, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10@ miniboss: I don't think Apple will start some kind of virtualization of their own... otherwise... why would they
make extra publicity for Parallels? (http://www.apple.com/getamac/windows.html)
btw did anyone notice there's no Parallels icon in the dock?... - theiss, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8It's hillarious Quake 4 isn't on that list, but all 4 photos on their site showing 3D PC gaming in Parallels are of Q4.
- akilleen, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11I can't wait for OS to be irrelevant. It looks like things are slowly moving that way.
- ratzfatz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Sorry for comment abuse - will someone please check for compatibility with Santa Rosa chip? I remember the nightmare whilst trying to install on the MacPro. Will the same happen again now? It took Parallels crew a month to fix for a stable version. Thanks for feedback.
- rationalist, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7You're missing the salient point, aoe2bug
As someone who invested five figures in Windows software (digital music studio, among other professional tools), I held off moving to Mac for years because of the migration cost.
What is worse, stupid vendors do not offer cross-platform upgrade discounts.
No, what's even worse was contemplating having to upgrade to Vista super-POS to continue to get support from stupid vendors.
I finally made the move nine months ago for productivity reasons with normal biz apps, and found I saved about 30% of my work day not futzing with crap - but I still had to go back to my POS big hulking Windows machine to run the $$$ stuff. The reality is that I found going back so frustrating and time-consuming that I basically mothballed my studio, awaiting this kind of solution (I tried Bootcamp, found it a pain in the neck).
Previous version of Parallel did not have the performance I needed (probably due to having to load the entire Windows bloat just to run an exe.)
Now, I can capitalize on my prior investment and still enjoy the productivity, usability and sheer enjoyable experience of Mac OS X, without needing Vista and without having to bark my shins on my hulking POS Windows brick.
The real story here is the continued trend of creative professionals moving to the Mac without having to leave everything they bought behind.
Oh, and the many dozens of PC games sitting on the shelf will be fun to dust off, too ;-) - WraythX, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5@dragon76 do you work for vmware? :)
- tizz66, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Oh, superb! Thanks for pointing that out... I looked though their press release for v3 and the new features and saw no mention of it whatsoever, so I assumed it wasn't there.
Off to buy the upgrade I go! - listrophy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5According to the video on the parallels.com 3D graphics page, it's "coming soon."
- parsap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Looking at the YouTube video, it's better because each application is its own window, so that you can have say, Office 2007, Mail.app, and Minesweeper interlaced like normal OS X windows and exposé works like you would expect it to. In Parallels, each window is actually part of one giant window, so you can't stack them with other OS X windows or use exposé effectively.
- blackandblue, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4do the registration on their website, rather than requesting it from the app. their site will sends one that works with the new beta that way.
- helfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4no, there are no VM's that support installing OSX on them.
- Atomic1fire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Less as in not directx9
- Unclickable, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4you are right grossag, here is a video of Parallels Desktop
http://yuxt.com/videos/88199 - pipebender, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4VMware has just released Fusion beta 4 today as well.
- Override, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I tried Thief, Thief II and System Shock 2, all of which install (though SS2 takes some patching) but while they do run, they lag so utterly badly as to be completely unplayable. I did get Soldier of Fortune 2 working perfectly though.. and Hitman: Codename 47 works at absolutely full speed with no glitches, probably the most compatible game I've found so far, similar to Half-Life.
There's a thread going on the Parallels Forums talking about game compatability issues as people try out new things: http://forum.parallels.com/thread12428.html
@ ninjab3ar
"Can somone confirm is guild wars works? please!"
From "Luctus" on the Parallels forums:
"When running Guild Wars with default settings, the graphical glitches makes it impossible to even log in. After setting DirectX 8 compitability and disabeling shaders in Guild Wars, the graphical glitches goes away, but it's still unplayable due to far too low framerate. Also, when trying to play in full-screen mode, it leaves the taskbar and the bottom part of desktop still visible."
So it seems unfortunately not, which is a pity because it's one of the ones which I think a lot of people would like (myself included).
@ colincornaby
"What the crap? There is a Mac version of Warcraft 3, it can play multiplayer with the PC version of Warcraft III, and every copy of Warcraft 3 shipped with the Mac and PC version. Why bother having this on the list?"
Someone obviously just got bored and decided to try, I think it falls under the geek "Because I can" territory.. - Zorkon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Err, no. It allows you to run Windows apps on a Mac, not the other way around.
- LeVito82, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3First, something like Parallels is not a hack. Mac users use Macs because they work better for them. In my case, it's e.g. because when you mace a change on a Windows system, you can't go back. And every time you make a change, it get's slower. That's not the case on a Mac, and that's not the case on a Linux machine. But since Linux doesn't offer some particular Software I need, I switched to Mac.
Why do I run Parallels? Simply for one thing: Testing websites in all different versions of the Windows Internet Explorer. No more, no less.
Sure, I would be able to keep a Windows machine clean, but why do this additional work if I could do real jobs otherwise? - CptZap, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Quicksilver, TextMate...
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Can somone confirm is guild wars works? please!
And also...
Is that an official list, or did you just test those out right now? - macupdate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4This is arguably the most significant feature upgrade ever released for Parallels. I'm personally very excited to see what comes of this company and their new borne that just got a lot more wise. :)
- Orangeair, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3All I want is to be able to run Apple editing and music software on a PC.
- inkhead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Microsoft already has free virtualization software for Windows called VirtualPC. It's actually much nicer (for windows) than anything out there, if you just want to run one or two VMs, very simple UI
- combatchuck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I think he meant universal programs that will run on any OS.
- stalefries, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Heck, I'd be happy if Apple just licensed Parallels Desktop. Remember: Parallels isn't a Mac-only company; Apple would be pretty stupid to be bringing on *more* cross-platform applications to support.
- tizz66, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3schmons: I think Ben from Parallels posted last week that he was running HL2 on his MacBook, so I guess you can assume all Source games will work.
- dagaz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I tried Parallels first and have now switched to VMWare Fusion. IMHO the beta version of Fusion runs much better than version 3 of Parallels.
- grossag, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4That's VMware Fusion, not Parallels Desktop
- jschuur, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Free upgrade from 2.0 if you purchased 'after May 1st'.
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