Broken Games - Speak up here if you want to see a particular game working.

[krayola]

Instead of having everyone posting game X doesn't work all over the place, I thought it'd be useful to have a thread for people to say that they'd like to see specific games work with P3.0 as the future patches come out. Pipe up with ones you know don't work that you'd like to see work. Please do repeat a game name so that the developers know which ones to focus on first.

Kudos to the P3 dev team for making such a cool hack work!

To start the list:

- Guild Wars starts up, but with visual artifacts and horrible performance with all possible settings.

[bombastinator]

NWN2 Would be awesome. It's the reason I made a boot camp partition in the first place. It may be too slow though, I haven't been able to check of course.


I tried fallout but it may be a problem with the game. Maybe I just need a '98 partition (shudders)

Perhaps a list of games that are known to work would be cool too. I'm pretty sure I can get heroes of might and magic IV going but I haven't been ab le to roll back bootcamp 1.3 to 1.2 successfully so my machine will only run in safe mode atm. ( can't get the workaround to work either)

[casakid06]

I am able to run warcraft 3 but it is nearly unplayable. The graphics are very grain and the gameplay is extremely choppy.

[mechcon]

My gripe is how since I have a dual monitor setup, when playing 1st person shooters, the mouse keeps flying off the sides and I can't use it unless I click and then click again in the game window

[dippyskoodlez]

I am able to run warcraft 3 but it is nearly unplayable. The graphics are very grain and the gameplay is extremely choppy.

Just run the os x version ;)

As for games...

NFS:MW- Direct X 9 heavy. Will take some work.

My gripe is how since I have a dual monitor setup, when playing 1st person shooters, the mouse keeps flying off the sides and I can't use it unless I click and then click again in the game window

I agree-- Mouse needs to be fixed.

MOHAA I can't LEAVE the window if I want to, but other games it will just leave the window.

Its probably something with coherence and the mousing changes in it to make it not stick in a single machine.

[BostonBoozer]

I'd love to see Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 working.

[mechcon]

Well yeah, it's heaps annoying, I may have to try having it set to OS Window maybe. or (god forbid) uninstall parallels tools? :P


actually, realised if I ran the parallels session in full screen instead of coherence or OS window, it doesn't have that problem!!! I'm stoked!!!

[gtjuggler]

Id like:

-Unreal 2004's 'UnrealED'.

Thats about it.

[RujusMacBook]

Need for Speed Underground 2
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

Those are the only two I want! They install but when loading they crash.

[oneway23]

All I'm hoping for is support for Command and Conquer 3

[mumbo]

Second the vote for Neverwinter Nights 2
And raise it by 1 with Titan Quest

[jcwelch]

Second the vote for Neverwinter Nights 2
And raise it by 1 with Titan Quest
Another vote for NWN, although since it require DX 9, that may be a while

[AlanH]

Civ4, mainly for Beyond the Sword when it arrives, and to work with Windows-only mods. But I'm not holding my breath.

[slinberg]

Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction pass the video test, but won't launch - just peg the CPU at 100% and hang.

Please fix!

[mumbo]

Not meaning to be rude in any way, but I see lots of people wanting to play Diablo and Warcraft in parallels, why? You can run it natively in mac and it will be a lot better, and even if you have an old cd without the mac diablo installer, you can download it from blizzard for free.

Hope that's not rude, would just like to know why... is it a multiplayer or mod issue??
ps: hope Diablo 3 is announced soon, but that's way off topic :D

[dippyskoodlez]

Not meaning to be rude in any way, but I see lots of people wanting to play Diablo and Warcraft in parallels, why? You can run it natively in mac and it will be a lot better, and even if you have an old cd without the mac diablo installer, you can download it from blizzard for free.

Hope that's not rude, would just like to know why... is it a multiplayer or mod issue??
ps: hope Diablo 3 is announced soon, but that's way off topic :D


Seriously. Both these games have native os x versions that work great. Don't waste a dev's time. Hell, they're even on one cd for that matter. You don't even have to do anything special.

But I would have to second that UnrealEd request! :)

[Mac Write]

Here's my list:

Splinter Cell
Splinter Cell: Pandora's Tomorrow
Splinter Cell: Choas Theory
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Rainbow Six: Lockdown
Rainbow Six: Vegas
RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platnium
Live Virtual earth (www.live.com)

[qad]

I hope most of you realize that Parallels 3.0 supports games up to those using DX 8.1 or OpenGL, and that quite a few games listed here requires DX 9 or 10 minimum.

[AlanH]

I think that's the point of this thread. Since Parallels have indicated that they plan to support Vista Aero in a future release, the implication is that they *will* include significantly improved DirectX capability at that point.

[STim]

The first constructive thread I've seen on 3D. I have it bookmarked already. Thanks for your postings.

Those having problems with Warcraft 3 - please specifically post if you've tried to run it in OpenGl mode or not.

To run W3 in GL mode, right click your Warcraft 3 shortcut, select Properties and append "-opnegl" to Target field, so it looks like

"C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\w3l.exe" -opengl

[Shepherdboy]

I would like to play Sid Meier's Pirates and Civ 4. Civ 4 because I already have the Windows version and don't want to repurchase and Pirates because it's not available for the Mac.

I've installed Pirates and it runs but is much too slow to be playable.

Shepherdboy

[bombastinator]

The first constructive thread I've seen on 3D. I have it bookmarked already. Thanks for your postings.

Those having problems with Warcraft 3 - please specifically post if you've tried to run it in OpenGl mode or not.

To run W3 in GL mode, right click your Warcraft 3 shortcut, select Properties and append "-opnegl" to Target field, so it looks like

"C:\Program Files\Warcraft III\w3l.exe" -opengl

Do you want logs? IIRC theres some sort of logging feature on parallels. If it works the way I assume, one would not only know what crashes but exactly how.

[ncl]

As far as I can tell, Fallout Tactics doesn't work at all.

It claims to only require DX7, and ships with a copy of DX8, so I was pretty surprised and disappointed when it didn't launch.

I don't expect super-modern PC games to always work, but so far I haven't gotten anything to work. I'm a little cranky that I dropped $50 for this upgrade.

[R2D2]

My one PC game - MechWarrior 4.

It looks like a problem with WINE since Linux guys get the same error.

Tom

[2careless]

To start the list:

- Guild Wars starts up, but with visual artifacts and horrible performance with all possible settings.

Same here. Is there any tunable parameters in GW.exe?
I've changed the graphics options in game to the lowest and still only get like 5-6 frames per second... not playable.

Also got HL2/Counter Strike source to work. same story, very slow performance.
To the developers, is it at all possible to assemble the WINE code mapping to DirectX?

[AlanH]

As far as I can tell, Fallout Tactics doesn't work at all.

It claims to only require DX7, and ships with a copy of DX8, so I was pretty surprised and disappointed when it didn't launch.

I don't expect super-modern PC games to always work, but so far I haven't gotten anything to work. I'm a little cranky that I dropped $50 for this upgrade.
Sounds a bit as though you may not have enabled DirectX in the VM video config.

[ncl]

No, I'm quite sure I enabled DirectX.

Edit: Though, really, the fact that that's the common response kinda suggests that the Parallels folks botched the upgrade a bit — shipping with one of the big marketing features of the new release turned off by default for upgrade customers was perhaps a poor decision.

[casakid06]

I play Warcraft on Windows b/c I had problems playing it on the mac side and there is also some other software i use while playing (banlist) that isnt available for the mac os...

[dylanjames]

I'd like to see Settlers III working under parallels. It installs, but crashes with a DirectX error before finishing launching.

[Akumu]

I love this game and I use Bootcamp ONLY to play it nothing else as I prefer Parallels to leave OSX running for my real work.

I am using the bootcamp partition through Parallels 3.0 and it won't boot now(dreaded hardware not compatible error but that is another story) ANY WAY I am using that installation of FFXI to test PD3 DX support and POL will start with sound and control with keyboard and gamepad but I get no picture it is just black, yes DX is checked, w/o it I see the picture and have control but it will of course fail as I log into the game.

Unfortunately i have a OEM copy from another PC(that got Linux loaded on it) and it has updates including DX9. Would that being installed be a problem or does Parallels bypass it? I unfortunately can't seem to downgrade to 8.1 like i would prefer. All the instructions online fail miserably.

any way to cut the story short(or rather not any longer) FFXI please work someday I love you but you are making me use Bootcamp.

[mkummer]

I know it needs 9.1 - but my games would be Tiger Woods PGA 2007 and MS FlightSim 2004 or newer...

[max-4004]

Eve-Online is about playable.
But it has problems with mouse positions until the games goes into fullscreen. There are also some color issues and some white progresbars because they are coded with shaders.
Hope Parallels can fix that.

[__alex]

The mouse position in EVE online makes it rather hard to get through the login screen (thank god for the tab key) and the progress bars are rather all white and weird looking. Mostly working though. Does a whole lot better than VMWare Fusion ;)

[slinberg]

Not meaning to be rude in any way, but I see lots of people wanting to play Diablo and Warcraft in parallels, why?

For Diablo, there are a lot of key mods (like PlugY) that are Windows-only. I don't know about WC, but I suspect that might be true there as well.

[thughes]

CIVILIZATION IV !!!!

I really don't want to have to buy a new version for the Mac when I already own the Windoze release.

[krayola]

CIVILIZATION IV !!!!

I really don't want to have to buy a new version for the Mac when I already own the Windoze release.

I have Civ4 for mac and it works great -- I'd almost suggest to people that its worth buying any title that's out for Mac natively to go do so to encourage developers to release native mac games instead of relying on Parallels.

[mrwarren]

Half-Life 2 would be killer. It's pretty much the only game I play in windows.

[Shidayu]

Half-Life 2 would be killer. It's pretty much the only game I play in windows.

Have a look at the options I posted here (http://shidayu.com/compat/pmwiki.php/Half-Life2). You might have better luck than me.

[mrwarren]

Have a look at the options I posted here (http://shidayu.com/compat/pmwiki.php/Half-Life2). You might have better luck than me.

I'm a newbie with tweaking options. I dont even know where to start, so I doubt I can get even as far as you did.

[solgae]

Guild wars isn't working on Parallels right now, even though it supports DirectX 8.1

On VMware Fusion beta 3, Guild wars did ran, but with heavy texture problems.

It's a bit disappointment that even DX8.1 games wouldn't run at all.

[erhcho]

another vote for NWN2

[bbf]

I'd like to see RealFlight G3.5 (haven't tried the full version yet, but the demo won't run - it's DirectX 9) - that's really the only game I go to BootCamp for...

[mster142]

civ city rome would be nice

[bombastinator]

I say this because it wouldn't run at all under vista on my macbook pro (core duo)

This is not to say it works very well. There appears to be some sort of major mouse problem. It's close enough that it might be fixable however.

[perfection]

Counterstrike and Condition Zero!!

I tried playing it with OpenGL and everything i see is white in the game!?!
What is going on?!? Can someone help me with this problem..

THANKS!

[Nightwolf]

Guild Wars runs with DX 9 effects. But its horrible slow.. and no special effects!

I would like to see carmageddon TDR 2000 to run with parallels. It segfault if the video check starts.

[jeroenhmg]

I am still hooked on this game, and playing the expansions.... I would love to not have to reboot to play this relatively old DirectX game.

Better support for Half-Life 2 please, I know its been asked for a gazillion time by now....

[airolson]

I'd dearly love to see the Dark Engine games (Thief 1 & 2, System Shock 2) working.

[cetuma]

Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO)

[ChrisO]

Half-life 2 I haven't tested this
System Shock 2
Thief
Thief 2

With various patches and what not, I can get into System Shock 2, with wonderful sound, and the proper game speed, and even with the 3D objects all in place, but with scrambled Lite-Brite textures. :confused:

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind?

[Wick3d]

So I have already seen a good number of people on here talk about Guild Wars, and I think I can speak for a rather large portion of Mac online gamers when I say it really needs to be supported.

[chuckf11]

Another vote for NWN2:) :)

[Senad]

Civilization 4
Civilization 4: Warlords
Company of Heros

All I want and I'm a happy camper :).

[forgie]

Red Alert 2 would be great. It runs, but takes about 4 minutes to get to the main menu screen - once it gets there, the menus run fine. once in the game, it's LAGGY. about the equivalent of a PC running at 3-500Mhz at a guess... The mouse keeps dropping out of the VM when trying to scroll at the edge of the screen. If parallels is going to support games, it's going to have to sort out some system for configuring the way that the mouse interacts with the edge of the VM screen - the current behaviour makes gaming unusable in windowed mode (the graphics were screwy in full screen).

[ttlgDaveh]

I'd dearly love to see the Dark Engine games (Thief 1 & 2, System Shock 2) working.Stick my vote in for these games too :)

[blairmacintyre]

I personally would love to see Second Life work. I know there is a Mac client, but we have a modified Windows client (that doesn't work on the mac yet) that I need to run and rebooting into Bootcamp is annoying ... :)

[jeadhob]

Vanguard Saga of Heroes would be nice to see running, but i know it is direct x 9.0c so that may be a while.

[prescor]

On behalf of my 9 year old son, I place a vote for Disney's ToonTown.

We were both dismayed that it doesn't work. Older brother tends to monopolize the PC. :-)

[jfranzen]

I'd like to throw the City Of (Heroes/Villains) games into the ring. They're one of the very few games I still keep windows around for. Also, I bought the Steam version of UFO: Afterlight since I've been an XCOM addict for over a decade. Alas, it doesn't seem to work well within P3.0. I can get to the main menu, and set options and what not, but once the actual 3D engine initializes, kerplunk, kerplooey.

And, on another note, I decided to run a an openGL benchmark, Cinebench (http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/cinebench_e.html), to see just what a difference in performance I would see in P3.0 vs OSX. Unless I'm missing a setting somewhere, there doesn't seem to be ANY 3D acceleration of OpenGL inside parallels. Example numbers for my MBP 2.16 w/2G RAM (Windows XP SP2 gets 1G of that) are:

P3.0 (Build 4128) in Coherence Mode:

OpenGL in Software mode = 652
OpenGL in Hardware mode = 430

P3.0 (Build 4128) in Full Screen Mode:

OpenGL in Software mode = 659
OpenGL in Hardware mode = 408

P3.0 (Build 4128) in OS Window Mode:

OpenGL in Software mode = 671
OpenGL in Hardware mode = 441

OSX 10.4.9:

OpenGL in Software mode = 1533
OpenGL in Hardware mode = 3064

As you can see, not a subtle difference in any mode. Definitely something off. If anyone has suggestions on OpenGL optimization, I'd love to hear it. Also, something else to note is that there were no textures visible during any of the test runs in Parallels, but there were in the OSX native run. Alas, I do not have a Boot Camp partition on this system anymore due to some Leopard testing I did, so I can't offer numbers for that config.

If I may be so bold, perhaps the Parallels Lads could add this lil benchmark tool to their QA suite. I've found it very handy in testing a system's OpenGL performance...

J^2

[ahintz]

I'd like to see Gametap run - it is mostly older games, but the interface won't even load - gives a video card error message

[AlanH]

And, on another note, I decided to run a an openGL benchmark, Cinebench (http://www.maxon.net/pages/download/cinebench_e.html), to see just what a difference in performance I would see in P3.0 vs OSX. Unless I'm missing a setting somewhere, there doesn't seem to be ANY 3D acceleration of OpenGL inside parallels. Example numbers for my MBP 2.16 w/2G RAM (Windows XP SP2 gets 1G of that) are:

[snip]


As you can see, not a subtle difference in any mode. Definitely something off. If anyone has suggestions on OpenGL optimization, I'd love to hear it. Also, something else to note is that there were no textures visible during any of the test runs in Parallels, but there were in the OSX native run.

Interesting. I ran the same tests in XP SP2 Parallels on my PacPro. I *did* see textures in software lighting test in Parallels, but not in the hardware lighting test.

My Parallels numbers (OS Window mode only):

OpenGL-SW-L: 834
OpenGL-HW-L: 446

My OS X numbers:

OpenGL-SW-L: 2007
OpenGL-HW-L: 4211

The really strange thing is that the Parallels hardware numbers are LOWER than the software ones, both in your tests and in mine. I've no idea what that's all about!

[ranjeetsodhi]

All I'm hoping for is support for Command and Conquer 3

It isn't supported. It starts (the main C&C logo pops up) and then hangs...
C&C 3 Tiberium wars works fine when booting into Vista using Bootcamp.

[eriqthegeek]

It's SOOO close ... it's technically playable, but the graphics on the buildings are all messed up, just showing mostly white blocks, and there's also some graphics corruption on the upper left corner.

I would love to be able to play this game.

Eric

[lanceweber]

+1 for Civ4/Warlords!

[ernie]

Instead of having everyone posting game X doesn't work all over the place, I thought it'd be useful to have a thread for people to say that they'd like to see specific games work with P3.0 as the future patches come out. Pipe up with ones you know don't work that you'd like to see work. Please do repeat a game name so that the developers know which ones to focus on first.

Kudos to the P3 dev team for making such a cool hack work!

To start the list:

- Guild Wars starts up, but with visual artifacts and horrible performance with all possible settings.

The 32bit mouse cursor works, at least thats something!! The rest looks like it was multi layered scene and someone came along and switch several of the critical layers off, like the characters.

You would think that with several million Guild Wars players, with no Mac version of the game, that this one would be a bit of a priority to support.

I had to buy an XP machine to play Guild Wars and thats all it gets used for, I use the Mac Mini for everything else!

[mbeaver]

I would like to see:

DDO (Dungeons and Dragons Online)
NWN2

[gene]

Medieval II, along with the rest of the Total War games (Rome, etc)

NWN2

[bruss147]

I'd like GuildWars to work better. It's currently only getting 3 fps, so is unplayable.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 would be nice, too, but I don't really care.
It's really choppy and slow, but runs. Some of the drawing seems to have problems.

[Frungi]

GameTap Player.

[crunchy2]

It's an older game and when actually within the gameplay it works well (at least at 640x480 - higher resolutions don't work as well), but the game is, for some reason, extremely choppy when in the menus, course selection, etc, such that the mouse is extremely difficult to use. You move the mouse and a second or two later you see where it ended up. That bad. Which is really weird since once you get the the game going it works very smoothly. So all it needs is a fix for the menus and it would be more than adequate on my 1st gen MacBook 2 GHz.

[zdkd]

I'd like to see both Guild Wars and Oblivion Elder Scrolls work and be playable.

[ernie]

I would like to see Guild Wars running properly as there is no Mac version of it available due to it only support DirectX.

[ifriit]

My votes:
Titan Quest
Galactic Civilizations 2 (w/ Dark Avatar expansion)
Civilization 4 (w/all expansions)
Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War (w/Winter Assault & Dark Crusade)

[captvanhalen]

So far i have tested (without success)

GTA3: Vice City
Morrowind
Thief 2


The whole reason i upgraded was to play these games. Patiently awaiting patches. :D

[frankie]

Which is pretty impressive considering it's a DX9 game. It throws a brief "no support for nv_vertex_program" alert during launch, but then proceeds to load the game.

I was able to log in, select a server, start creating a hero, before I got tired of dealing with the one eensy bug under Parallels: the mouse cursor won't display, so you have to navigate around by only feel and mouseover hilites.

NWN2 puts enough strain on my MBP under BootCamp, I wouldn't want to try it under Parallels with only a quarter as much VRAM being virtualized. But the NWN2 Toolset... now that would be something worth Parallelizing.

[Wizkid]

Flight Simulator - latest Version
Railroad Simulator from KUJU


PLEASE...

[statesman]

I have City of Heroes running under Parallels as well and it seems allright, except for the missing mouse issue. It is almost playable, but navigation and mouse-specific actions are quite difficult, as is actually getting to some of the support options where I could tweak my graphics for improved gameplay. Its really close to working seemelssly. I do have some long load imes and some stutter, but that may be able to be corrected by me.

[rekh]

FPSCREATOR (http://www.fpscreator.com/)

...would luv to get this up and running!

[airolson]

Another vote for GalCiv2 and a new vote for Space Rangers 2.

edit: and Morrowind.

[steve black]

I'd like to see more of the games from www.battlefront.com working. In particular (and neither of these should need recent directx versions):

Strategic Command 2 (almost works but with occasional errors and gross graphic corruption)

Combat Mission (I've only tested the original version)

Battlefront release good functional demos for testing if that helps.

[dan537]

Final Fantasy XI is the only reason I am still using Boot Camp. Would love to see this running under Parallels.

[simibilly@mac.com]

I want to run Real Flight 3.5

[moose88]

My gripe is how since I have a dual monitor setup, when playing 1st person shooters, the mouse keeps flying off the sides and I can't use it unless I click and then click again in the game window

In parallel tools, try turning off the mouse sync option.
Dont know if it will work for you. but it helped me out with a few other things :D

[Ramzeska]

when Lineage C4 start you see warning " The game not be consistant because AGP is deactivated" , after it you see black screen and lineage`s cursor, after it if you use high acceleration level windows crash , if you use normal acceleration level lineage crash and goto windows desktop.

[ohsowicked]

I'm trying to get Ragnarok Online up and running on parallels. It's the only reason I'm bothering with Windows on my Macbook Pro.

[buddhak0n]

Jeez-- All I get is a white screen and it's the ONLY reason I'd want to use a "windoze" virtualization in the first place.

DirectX support in 3.0? Hardly... Frankly I can't even get windows media player to play a VIDEO at all in Vista...

I haven't even tried playing a DVD ... The Video Driver that comes with Parallels is just junk... there is no such thing as 3D.. It's hilarious they even tried to sell it that way.:)

[aguydude]

It'd be nice of Gamemaker 7 games worked.

[oxonian]

I've tried the old classic Starfleet Command II, specifically I grabbed the demo and ran it.

It does run, but only just. The screen is jerky, the mouse movement is very jerky, and there is now sound.

Since it is an older game, maybe only moderate work is needed to make it viable?

[angryelvis]

Just want to add my voice to the chorus asking for Civ4. Also, I would like to see Poker Academy Pro 2 working, it hangs at the splash screen.

[Kreme314]

I have installed and Run the new harry Potter Game, and it runs fine (weell, that is to say, just as badly as it runs on the PC, which is pretty bad) but the text within the game is unreadable. It appears as a white blob of the outline of the text, so it is tantalizingly close to being decipherable.

I don't know if this is a weird issue with my display (a flat panel), a font install issue with the 'guest' Windows, or simply an incompatibility in the DirectX support Parallels has.

Does anyone have any suggestions or can at least tell me what the issue is so I can stop trying to fix it if its Parallels?

[kelvSYC]

Gameplay for The Settlers II 10th Anniversary isn't working, although the game does run to the menus, so I assume that gameplay itself requires DX9. (I'm told that the original Settlers II works fine, but I have not been able to verify it myself)

C&C:The First Decade works for some games and not for others, obviously (I want to see if I can have Mac Generals and PC Generals in one shared folder structure - ie. one common set of data files). I'm getting graphical problems with the early games, but that has nothing to do with Parallels itself.

I'm interested in whether it is possible to have one set of files for a few cross-platform games (eg. Civ4, Warcraft III, etc.) in a shared folder structure - good for games where cross-platform multiplayer gaming is not implemented...

[polliard]

Has anyone gotten Guild Wars to run and if so what options. Otherwise, I request that Guildwars get added to the list of games that are currently broken :)

[loomerds]

I've been trying, without success, to get American Conquest - Divided Nation by cdv running under Parallels. The game runs and I get sound, but only a black screen. Any suggestions, anyone?

Doug

[maddi]

I would really like to see Hurrican running under Parallels, since I specifically bought it for this game ;)

www.poke53280.de (http://www.poke53280.de) is the Homepage of the game

[stephendeo]

This game is from http://www.codemasters.com

1. I installed Archlord on a brand new copy of Windows XP Pro SP2 (no windows update)
2. Enabled DirectX Support from the VM Options.
3. Left the Video Memory to 16MB and the main Memory to 512
4. Started Windows XP up and launched Archlord
5. Game booted up as normal
6. Got to the loading screen after loading Parallel crashes so does the MacOS
7. I force rebooted my machine, and tried again, this time, I made sure all the graphics are OFF.
8. Game ran, got to the loading screen everything crashed again...but.. then it got to the next screen which was the loggin screen for archlord.
9. However, the login screen was SLOW the frame rate was very very slow even with all the graphics lowed to NOTHING.
10. I was able to log into the game, with the same problem it ran for about 10mins with horrible frame rate and lowered graphics...then it crashes Parallel followed by the MacOS. Then I shut down my mac, and cried myself to sleep....

Help me?!

===========================
This is what i'm running:

MacBook Pro Laptop
Intel Core Duo 2
4GIB memory
160 GIB Hard Drive
17" Monitor HD
256 Geforce nVidia

[rezonat0r]

Unreal Gold (which is DX7) looks great and runs smoothly at 1650x1050, but surprisingly runs TOO fast at times! You'll be walking (or running) along and all of a sudden start moving twice as fast as you should be for periods of time. Sound remains OK though. Anyone else seen this?

[stormj]

I'd like to see any of the EA Sports games working, NHL 2007 in particular.

[Loon]

Lord of the Rings Online would be nice.

[gscarcel]

Heros of the Pacific & Apache air asault...

[frnboy]

I'd vote for LOTR Online as well.

[Diran]

I'm also wanting City of Heroes suppot. I can also get it to load up and it seems to run ok except for the missing mouse pointer which makes it unplayable. I'm not sure how much work would be involved, but I'd really love to see this running properly!

[Arr MiHardies]

C&C3 would be great. right now, it will launch, get the the main menu, even let me start a mission, however when i get there all i see is my hud, and the main map is completely blank. I also have no sound.
Additionally, Command and Conquer - the First decade, does not work. Not even the original C&C (1) will work on this. It tries to start, then errors out and I have to open the task manager to kill the c&c 95 process. interesting, since this game worked under win95 :P

[TimKenyon]

Post up another for GuildWars - I was hoping this game would run having it run the Log On Screen on my Macbook (Black - 512Mb RAM; 32Mb Shared Graphics) with a poor render figured this would work on the Mac Pro, but it didn't.

Also wanting Dawn of War (Game, Winter Assault, and Dark Crusade expansions), Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, Mechwarriors 2 through 4 (plus Black Knight) and Mechcommanders 1 and 2.

Everything else should work.

[AngryAnt]

Hitman 2:
I see a lot of dislocated polygons - models twisted strangely like a bomb went off in the level and part of the mesh was heavily damaged.

Atomic bomberman:
Colours are way off and shifting. Tried to set XP to run the app in 256 colour mode, but no dice.

[pcjr]

I have been trying to use the beta version of MtGO v3. I think there's a DirectX-related issue. The application window is black. However, if I move a window on top of it and then off again, I see the correct window contents for a moment before they are over-written with black again.

I am running Windows XP on Parallels build 4560 on a Mac Pro.

[DevonDisast0r]

as someone posted earlier i too have purchased parallels mainly so i can play ragnarok online...i keep getting an error and i cant even load the game...im not sure if i have my settings configured right...my video device says its like parallels video or sumthing like that...im not sure if directx is even enabled..sorry im a n00b! lol im also new to mac so im having trouble getting used to it all...could someone maybe offer me assistance as to how i should adjust my parallels settings to make the game run??

[nrchy]

hi would like battlefield 2142 to work and even half life 2 as i get that to work either

[jdandrea]

My 7-year old son humbly requests support for the golf game Infamous 18. :)

I already had DirectX 9.0c installed, but some files are marked outdated, even after installing Parallels Tools. Then I read elsewhere on this forum that DirectX 9.0c is not supported, only 8.1 (the latter of which is already on XP). Hopefully having 9.0c installed in tandem is not an issue. (Shouldn't normally be - different drivers/DLLs, I'd expect.)

Anyway, as it is, Infamous 18 does not appear to work at all. (The game requirements mention it's DirectX 9.0c _compatible_ but at the same time it doesn't mention that it's not 8.1 compatible.)

- Joe

[joeyconnick]

I have been trying to use the beta version of MtGO v3. I think there's a DirectX-related issue. The application window is black. However, if I move a window on top of it and then off again, I see the correct window contents for a moment before they are over-written with black again.

I am running Windows XP on Parallels build 4560 on a Mac Pro.I'm having problems too but I can see the application... what seems to be happening with me is a font issue? Or some kind of display issue.

What it results in is attached. It's pretty awful. Makes the cards unreadable. Doesn't happen, however, when I boot up in Boot Camp.

[neongrau]

another vote for eve-online PLEASE!

it somehow works but, UI is garbled, rendering is broken, and when rotating the camera the mouse jumps around. so not playable.

and, is there a way to make media player work? some iptv stuff will only work with media player because of it's DRM crap.

[jmstacey]

Comanche 4 is not working properly. It's a DirectX 8 game.

The game and missions load however there are serious issues: Nothing but the sky loads and it's moving at like 1 frame every 3 seconds, which is also how long the delay is for any keyboard actions.

[elf]

Star Trek Starfleet Command 3 !!

also not 3d but certainly directx - how about continuum (http://www.subspacedownloads.com)

[WJWwood]

I would like some help with Conquer Online. You can log onto the game fine, and everything looks normal but when new people come onto the screen it bombs, one time it even completely killed parallels. This seems to me like it would be something easy to fix if you knew what you were doing, because it runs perfect until new people load with no lag or artifacts.

[nrchy]

hi all would like battlefield 2 or battlefield 2142 to run

[nrchy]

hi all would like battlefield 2 or battlefield 2142 to run

[DigitalHytop]

Guild Wars
Eve Online

[odend42]

Kreme314, how were you able to install Harry Potter and which one? Was it Order of the Phoenix? I installed it but when it starts up it shows just a green screen, the music plays in the background but the screen appears upside down. Any help would be appreciated.

[reubensitos]

Guild Wars would be awesome.

[skoldfactor]

Warcraft III

When I open the program, the colors for the background of the menu (the menu buttons are fine) go photonegative and in Warcraft III the background and mouse are utterly unusable, glitchy, and weird. I have followed all the troubleshooting instructions on blizzard's support site with no success, including adding -opengl and -swtnl to the end of the target name. I have plenty of video memory and a brand new computer (macbook pro bought in early june). Please help.

[mt_morgan]

I know that TR is only in beta -- but it would be nice to see games such at this addressed earlier vs. later. :) (Looks like this one will require more video memory support AND currently has some issues with (possibly shaders) one of the 3D implements).

Cheers,

Morgan

[hedgehog]

Wanted to add another notch in the column for those wanting FFXI support. It's not dead yet!! And it's the only thing left in Windows that I need boot camp for. :(

[Volvic]

Hey,

i would like to see GTA San Andreas working!

so far it crashes right after loading the intro scene.

Microsofts error message then sends me to the T2 website where they suggest upgrading the video drivers...

[Volvic]

here is what take 2 says

Question

I get a black screen then the game crashes back to desktop.
Answer

This issue is generally caused by a videocard incompatibility from either the hardware or the software (drivers) installed.

Firstly, ensure your videocard is compatible with the game. Refer to the minimum specification of the game and to the link below for instructions on checking your system matches or exceeds the minimum requirements.

If your card meets the requirements to run the game ensure your videocard drivers are the latest available from your videocard manufacturer.

Common videocard manufacturer links:

ATI

Intel

Nvidia

S3 Graphics

SiS

[rayjay]

Duke Nukem - manhattan project
-Broken in 4560- works great in 4128. Crashes after clicking "play". Plays best in 4128 under directx, however will play under open gl too.

[falco]

MS Flight simulator. Runs under bootcamp fine, but refuses to run under Parallels 3.0 saying that the graphics card is not sufficient (Mac Book Pro with RadeonX1600).

[BelgianBull]

The game start up very well.
Parallels 5060 + BootCamp XP PRO SP2
Mac Pro 4Gb RAM; 1,5Gb RAM for Parallels
Nvidia 7300GT
OSX 10.4.10

If I play a couple minutes, the "PunkBuster" kicked me out the game. It has something to do with API's...

[ustice]

Dungeons and Dragons online, please.

[bearzero]

Well, I'd hoped the upgrade would allow Sim City to work. No such luck. I might have to go buy the Mac edition. Anyone get it to work?

[Ilynnie]

Guild Wars please! I bought Parallels with my MacBook Pro just to play it and it is unplayable! So please get it to work in updates/patches/new versions!

[forgie]

Red Alert 2 is now playable, but it takes ages (3-5 minutes) to load first the app, and then an actual game. Is there anyway I can help with debugging info or anything like that to try and help SWSoft fix this up?

[smotto]

I've been having problems with all of my downloaded games from Big Fish and Real Arcade. I'd already purchased many that are not available yet for Mac OS and was excited for the possibility of not losing my money. I'm running Vista Business in Parallels and none of the games (of which I've tried many) are working (either major sound/graphic issues or the mouse issue already acknowledged). I know on my old PC some games ran better if you selected "run as administrator" or "run in XP mode"; however, this screen is greyed out under Properties. Anyone else having issues manually selecting the run as admin option on individual programs?

Thanks all!

[kingdev@charter.net]

I cannot run Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Installs OK but goes to black screen when trying to run program.
Using MacBook with Intel Core2 Duo,

[odaugaard]

Hi.
I was wondering, is there a simple setting that can be changes so that you can run Heroes III in parallels?

When you start the game, the game-screen is only half size of the actual desktop. Whrn you press 'full screen' it tries to expand, but instead the game-screen keeps it size, and optains big black borders instead..

Any help or suggestions?

Thanks

[jjprusk]

I would like to see RealFlight G3 (www.realflight.com) simulator work on Parallels. It works fine on my Mac Mini under BootCamp, but will not work under a Parallels VM. I have tried both v3 (build 4560) and the newest beta version (build 5120) and both show a large number of errors and eventually quit. RealFlight requires directx 9, which supposedly the newest verison of Parallels (at least the beta version, anyway) supports.

[justin]

I would like to speak up for Arcanum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_Of_Steamworks_and_Magick_Obscura), System Shock 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock_2).

[OS9Alive.com]

I think its a little unreal if you ask me.. This support for 3D / DirectX should have been the first thing put into this software. Before its over with you will have as much money in running windows on Mac as you would have if you just bought a windows machine to begin with.

A decent windowsXP with decent memory/disk space from Compaq you can get for around $600 from BestBuy..

Right now I as well as many others have

$200 in windowsXP software
$80 in Parallels
$40 in Parallels update
Total $320.00 (not counting shipping)

If I would have known I had to sink all this money into just running windows I would have bought a windows.

Its unreal.. Very disappointed!!!

Added: If this only supports directX 8.1 will we have to pay for another update to support DirectX 9+ ??

James

[Bigfoot_H2O]

Id like to see Conquer Online working. Its almost there, it starts up just fine but then crashes when you have some interaction. I bought Parallels just to run this program. If it dont work it would have been a wast of my money. It works great in boot camp.

[TheaHardy]

I've been having problems with all of my downloaded games from Big Fish and Real Arcade. ...

One reason I got Parallels was in the belief that these simpler games would be no problem to run. Much to my dismay, such is not the case. I have just run across this problem and don't actually know what the hang-up is. What exactly are the limitations? Can someone explain this to me. I speak low to intermediate geek so should be able to understand.

Thanks!!

[Daij-Djan]

GW works well not fine (slowly)

To disable MOST artifacts and make it playpal turn off that checkbox bottom left of graphics tab..... called somethind like: apply extended post-processing
Just reduce the graphics :: especially shading to reduce more artifacts

still though - even at 800x600 it is too slow to really play :/
Boot camp it is :(

Anyways::: Great Direct3D works now :)

[OS9Alive.com]

TheaHardy,
Lets put it this way, there are alot of limitations it seems.

A windows95 game that requires only directX 6, Any sound card, only 16MB of Ram has problems playing on Parallels. The video is crappy, the sound comes and goes, and the game is extremely slow.

I think you will have a very hard time finding anything that would run proper aside from very small apps that dont require too many functions.

Parallels is not worth the investment of money or time spent getting it to work..

James

[QueensGambit]

My list:

DX < 9

Elder Scrolls: Morrowind
The Longest Journey
Diablo II+expansion
Guild Wars
Wizardry 8
Syberia I,II
realMyst
Arx Fatalis
Quest for Glory V (to work properly, I read users have problems with sound)

DX = 9.0 (a,b,c)

Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Warrior Within, Two Thrones
Broken Sword 3,4
Beyond Good and Evil
Still Life
Secret Files Tunguska
Sherlock Holmes
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Sid Mayers Pirates!
Jade Empire
Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy

Also it would be fantastic if emulators (e.g. ePSXe, PSX, pcsx2, N64 emu's) where among the supported 3D apps.

[kcallagh]

Hi,

I really want to see Diablo II, Unreal Tournament 2003, American McGee's Alice, and Tomb Raider Legends run inside Parallels. I've tried installing the first two games and they install fine, but won't run -- something about there being no appropriate video mode or drivers. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? It would be MUCH appreciated!

Thanks!
Kathleen

[crash13]

kings crusaders works fine in OS screen, but in full screen the whole screen goes black. You must then restart windows and game. Set windows resolution to highest setting to use about 3/4 of the 20 inch screen, then works ok. parallels 3.0, lastest build.

[Ravenwolfie]

Might be a bit odd...but I would love to see these work via parallels.

1.IMVU
2. Guild Wars
3. City of Heroes/Villains

Howls,
Ravenwolfie

[Goldie]

The Sims 2 and all EPs, as well at The Sims 1

[nosodualie]

The demos for Half Life 2 and Medal of Honor: Airborne currently do not work. Would be great to get them running.

[benj]

Age of Empires 3:
Games works great...only problem is that that when you move the mouse to the top of the screen (it's supposed to scroll the map up), it doesn't do anything. That's when you play it using full screen OS mode. Maybe because the menu bar is up top? Then...when playing it under coherence using full screen you can scroll using the top fine, but you cant scroll down by mousing the bottom of the screen. Is this because the dock is down there?

Weird...any thoughts?

[jd300]

i would like to see the sims work help ideas greatly appericated

[david_mcmillen]

City of Heroes is (almost) the sole reason for my Boot Camp partition, because I haven't been able to get that game to run with reasonable performance under Parallels. It runs, but it gives an error at launch: "Your card or driver doesn't support GL_NV_vertex_program". This error (which doesn't occur when I reboot and play through Boot Camp) seems to limit the graphics severely, and the game plays only in at a tiny size (640x480 or something in that range, not sure, but it's puny!), and can't support any of the fancy graphical settings.

I'm running Parallels Desktop 3.0, Build 5160, on a MacBook Pro (nVidia GeForce 8600M video card), and yes, I have checked "Enable DirectX support" in the Video pane of the Virtual Machine preferences. The Windows version is XP SP2 (same version is used for both Parallels and Boot Camp). I visited nVidia's site from inside Parallels and used their beta "auto-detect the necessary video card drivers" feature, and it came back with "Parallels driver 0.0" and said my drivers were up to date; downloading their 8600 drivers manually came back with a message that no supported hardware was found, so it wouldn't install.

I'd love to be able to dispense with rebooting to play CoH, and I've seen others wishing for this as well -- if there's some fix for this, we'd all be appreciative!

[david_mcmillen]

City of Heroes ... gives an error at launch: "Your card or driver doesn't support GL_NV_vertex_program" ...and the game plays only in at a tiny size (640x480 or something in that range, not sure, but it's puny!)
To reply to myself: it was defaulting to 800x600, but I've just found that if you choose the resolution in-game to be Windowed, you can get a full-screen size out of it. The 3D acceleration is still missing, though, so you're playing a pale shadow of what the game is capable of generating.

[Xenos]

Hello david_mcmillen,

I'm sorry to say that DirectX 9.x graphics technology is not supported by the current version of Parallels Desktop. So the game's graph possibilities will be limited. Please excuse us for the inconvenience caused. We are working hard to solve the issue.

Best regards,
Xenos

[leilzza]

You probably get this a lot, seeing as this is one of the number one PC games of all time, but I'd really love to see The Sims 2 working in parallels. I had every single expansion pack available (for windows though) and then we got the mac. There was no way I was going to buy the base game PLUS all those expansion packs all over again, so I couldn't play it for months. Understandably, I was very excited at the release of parallels. I bought parallels only so that I could play The Sims 2, and what happens when I get it? It can't even run DirectX.
I tried everything--enabling DirectX in the videos options, downloading it (I probably tried about ten times) checking to make sure it's actually ON the computer (it is, it's DirectX 9.0c). I also have the latest version of parallels.
So yes, it'd be great to actually be able to play my favorite game on parallels.

[alorain]

does anyone know if Pirates of the Caribbean (Bethesda) will run? I tried it under the VM machine but it crashes upon loading the .ddl bundles. When i looked at the error report, it said my windows version was Windows NT 5, when i was clearly running Windows Xp Sp2...

[Xenos]

You must have DirectX 9.x or higher to install Pirates of the Caribbean. As I've said before, this graphics technology is not supported by the current version of Parallels Desktop. Sorry!
Please, look at the System Requirements before asking if any other games will work.

Best regards,
Xenos

[rdean]

America's Army V2.8.2

I can currently run all of the offline training and it looks great. When I go on an actual online deployment (Bridge Crossing for example) some of the texture looks like a chess board but the bridge and the combat actually work for a while, but then it starts to degrade and the screen begins to blink black. According to the documentation, AA requires directx v9.0 support, which I know that Parallels does not currently support, but it would be great to add this game to list. Or at least give it another vote!

Thanks for all of the hard work Parallel's development team!

[justinhoward]

Hi Xenos

Thanks for the previous posts in regards windows95, I got it working without a problem, same with XP and W2000. I have 1 problem though and having a huge problem trying to get MS Train Simulator to work. It loads and installs fine. The problem comes in when it tries to launch into the various options after having loaded into cache what it needs to load. It hangs and only pressing ESC does it escape and the programme crashes. From what I can make out it uses DirectX 8.

Would it be possible to work out a solution for this problem?

Great software!!
Justin Howard

[Xenos]

Hello,

justinhoward, please check if DirectX Support is enabled in your VM's Configuration Editor (Video).
DirectX 8 is supported (DirectX 9 - not yet).

Best regards,
Xenos

[Caesar]

Does Pro Evolution Soccer 6 will be ever supported under Parallels?

I haven't Pro Evolution Soccer 2008... but when I launch PES6 the games starts but it appears 180° flipped and specular. Any idea?

[D5314]

Here's another vote for MS Train Simulator version 1.2 (Xplosiv) to be supported, please. The info I needed today is in this thread already, thanks everyone. It looks like I need to wait for DirectX 9.0 to be supported so that I can run this game on my XP VM. When 9 is supported it will be worth upgrading from my unnumbered version* of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Or is there another solution I could try?
Keep up the good work.
*Dontcha just love customers who stay current?

[musk]

Might be a bit odd...but I would love to see these work via parallels.

1.IMVU

IMVU used to work but no longer does! It worked very well for me with build 5160 on OS X 10.4.11. It has not worked since upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.1 and Parallels builds 5560, 5580 and now 5582. I hope this will get fixed soon. Someone please let me know if there's something I can test.

IMVU link: http://www.imvu.com/

[jd300]

sims now works great thanks very much

[Xenos]

Hello all,

Thank you for the feedback!

Musk, we are working to improve 3D support and IMVU will hopefully be included in the list of supported applications in the next build (it is not there currently).

Best regards,
Xenos

[musk]

Musk, we are working to improve 3D support and IMVU will hopefully be included in the list of supported applications in the next build (it is not there currently).
Great news. Thanks!

[geychaner]

How about the original Starfleet Command? It will only run in multiplayer, not in skirmish or campaign, due to something about the CD copy protection.

[Never mind; I found a NoCD crack for it, and now it works great under Parallels and XP.]

[qom]

As stated in a topic I made, World of Warcraft is "broken" in builds efter 5160.

[Xenos]

Hello,

Qom, we did not include World of Warcraft in Parallels compatibility list as there is a native version of the game for Mac OS.

Best regards,
Xenos

[qom]

Hello,

Qom, we did not include World of Warcraft in Parallels compatibility list as there is a native version of the game for Mac OS.

Best regards,
Xenos

Shame :(
Would it be alot of extra work to implent?
Since it works in 5160, why won't keep supporting it?

[Xenos]

Dear Qom,

We are sorry for disappointing your expectations. However we do have a reason (mentioned above) not to concentrate on World of Warcraft primarily.

With every build of Parallels Desktop a lot of things get changed. So it is possible that a game working before is not supported any more - if the game has not been included in our priority list.

Why don't you run World of Warcraft on your Mac OS?

Best regards,
Xenos

[667eoh]

Hi,

I also vote for Medieval Total War. It launches well, but the "battle"-mode gives serious rendering problems (violet screen, sometimes you can see a box flickering).

(Oh, I forgot, I use the lastest Parallels Version - 5582, DX Enabled)

[qom]

Dear Qom,

We are sorry for disappointing your expectations. However we do have a reason (mentioned above) not to concentrate on World of Warcraft primarily.

With every build of Parallels Desktop a lot of things get changed. So it is possible that a game working before is not supported any more - if the game has not been included in our priority list.

Why don't you run World of Warcraft on your Mac OS?

Best regards,
Xenos

Hi again,

It's because I use addons that require .NET Frameworks 2.0 to work.
I haven't been able to get it working using Mono in OSX.

[zebradreams07]

Another vote for NWN2. Tried to install several times; each time I was told that a required file was missing - different file each time. Also, NWN1 worked for a short time and then started crashing - don't remember the circumstances, and I lost the install discs while moving so have been unable to replicate. Would prefer to run in OS X but was unable to find a Mac copy.

[thowie]

I'd like to see support for Sierra "Free Style Street Basketball". My son plays this ALL the time and I ensured him that it would work when we got the Mac instead of a new PC. Yikes. He's not happy with me right now. It is very, very slow and is unplayable.

Thanks

[rmaldo]

The versions of Diablo 2 that I've seen for sale in the last few months have installs for both Mac and Windows. You may want to check yours. Maybe you could install the Mac version. I have some old games bought before I got a Mac which turned out to have a Mac version included as well (Scrabble, Starcraft Broodwars).

[Philipp_r]

another vote for civ IV and all its addons by me

[agathezol]

Just picked up parallels today. I love it, but it doesn't play Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion. Starts out complaining about securom and the once installed it wont' launch.

[agathezol]

I just thought I'd mention that this seems to be directly related to the 64meg limit on video memory paralells allows Windows to see.

[Xenos]

Hello all,

Thank you for your reports - we keep eye on the discussion.

Agathezol, Oblivion requires DirectX 8.1 support and we are providing DirectX 8.0 support. Sorry for this current limitation of 3D graphics implementation.

Best regards,
Xenos

[jeffcraighead]

I'd like to see games created in Unity (www.unity3d.com) work better, they run but have a ton of rendering problems. Obviously there are probably Mac versions of many of these games. I specifically want it to test Windows builds as a developer.

Jeff

[stef]

I know it's DirectX 9 but I'd love to see this game running. Strange that Parallels 3 doesn't support DX9 while one of the sales arguments is "Run selected PC-only 3D games and graphics applications on your Mac". Of course the fun is in the "selected".

[MACrispy]

CoD:UO multiplayer works fairly well under the latest build of Parallels 3, but with one gotcha. Here are my observations. In both cases Parallels is running Windows XP full screen at 1600x1200 on a Mac Pro.

Full screen mode at 1600x1200
- Average frame rate: 80 fps.
- Very smooth; no chop or lag.
- Video is very, very dark making it almost impossible to play the game.
- Game engine brightness control has no effect.

Windowed Mode at 1280x1024
- Average frame rate: 65 fps.
- Mild chop.
- Video has full brightness and intensity.

From what I have seen, I would find the performance of the multiplayer version of Call of Duty: United Offensive under parallels perfectly acceptable if I could actually see what was on the screen. Solve the dark video problem, and you can add CoD:UO to the list of games that work flawlessly.

[jessdel]

sims now works great thanks very much

jd300 mentioned that the sims now works - I keep getting an error when I try to start the game:

D3DERR_INVALIDCALL! The application will now terminate.

Can anybody help? I'm running XP Pro with SP2 through Parallels 3 (latest Leopard-compatible build) on a MBP 2.6Ghz core duo, 4GB RAM, 8600M GT graphics card.

What am I doing wrong?? The only thing I'm not clear on is if the poster above is referring to the original sims or Sims 2 + EP's.

Thanks in advance..

[frankie]

jd300 mentioned that the sims now works - I keep getting an error when I try to start the game:
D3DERR_INVALIDCALL! The application will now terminate.


Sims 2 on Windows requires DirectX 9.0c. Parallels only has DX8 support so far. So you'd have to ask jd300 how he got it working.

[andyzib]

If Anarchy Online worked you would have to tie me to the chair to stop me from buying the Mac I've been lusting after.

Actually, it probably works right now but FunCom is working on a serious engine overhaul for release in the "near" future...

Going for the Valve Source engine would get a number of games going.
Half-Life 2 + expansions, CS: Source, Portal, Team Fortress 2, etc...

[Speijk]

OK, I know it is DirectX9.0c only, but I wouldl ike to see support for "The Witcher" :)

[bernstein]

unlike your statement that age of empires 3 should work, it does not on my mac. it crashes parallels on startup.

i've got a macbook pro from november 2007
- enabled experimental shaders
- assigned up to 64 MB video memory

attached pvs, as well as crash report & system config.

------------------------------------------------------------------
Other Games that don't work :
- Age of Mythology ( transparent objects)
- Command & Conquer : Generals (crashes vm on startup)
- Earth 2160 (transparent objects)
- Empire Earth (menu impossible to navigate, transparent objects)
- Homeworld / Homeworld Cataclysm (openGL mode doesn't work, directx mode is horribly slow)
- Impossible Creatures ( transparent objects)
- Trackmania United (won't start)
- Warhammer : Dawn of War ( transparent objects, wrong colours, )
- Settlers 2 10th Anniversary (menu runs nicely, game crashes)
- Worms 2 (flickering like on a 10Hz screen)
- Worms Armageddon (flickering like on a 10Hz screen)

- Warzone 2100 (only runs with software renderer)
- Warzone 2100 2.1beta2 (open source, www.wz2100.net, crash) (version 2.0 runs nicely)


[Edit] Thanks Xenos ! ( Just didn't want to do a simple "thanks" post :-) )

[Xenos]

Hello Bernstein,

Thank you very much for the detailed report. I have delivered it to our QA team.

Best regards,
Xenos

[happyparallels]

The announcement for build 5582 says Grand Theft Auto: Vice City runs.

I installed it in Parallels 3.0 build 5584. No errors during the installation.

When I try to run GTA:VC, I get the following error: "Grand Theft Auto VC cannot find enough video memory"

Host:

Mac OS 10.4.11
Macbook Pro with GeForce 8600M GT graphics, 2.2 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM

Guest:

Windows 2000 Pro SP4, 512MB RAM, 1024 x 768 resolution

Is there a workaround or anything I can do to supply additional useful info on this bug?

[happyparallels]

I should add - video was 16MB. When I edited the VM and set it to 64MB, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City launched.

I didn't think to look under memory instead of graphics to increase the video ram until now.

[kiwidesign]

I already wrote here (http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=98841) about GTA:SA compatibility,
now I'm posting about Need for Speed ProStreet... the game installs fine but does not launch, and the winXP crash report appears for nfs.exe

nothing to say, other than my machine configuration should support it...

[geobfield]

Just wanted to note that Combat Mission:Beyond Overlord used to work in Software Mode - but now does not. I think it has to do with the move to Leopard and the 5584 build of Parallels but not sure. I have also posted to Battlefront.com asking if anyone there has it working under newer versions of Parallels.

[jchris91739]

I'd like to see Call of Duty 2 working... on a Macbook Pro w/Nvidia 8600 it reports some sort of missing graphics card feature and won't launch.

Pretty sure it only need DX7 too.

[Aroundtown]

I'd love to see support for World in Conflict with the next upgrade. Thanks

[Bordgious]

Star Wars games, namely Star Wars: Battlefront, also including
Star Wars: Battlefront II
Star Wars: Empire at War

[John@Parallels]

Please put all games request there http://forums.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=106264

[Kim]

Diablo II.

I understand the game can be run on a Mac just fine, but some of the mods that I use are PC exclusive.

Also, I spent a lot of fracking money on this program (not to mention the $200 bucks I shelled out for buying Windows XP Home), and I expect it to live up to some basic promises. Why is this game unable to run on this program?

[izzybh]

kim, same goes for me. i've got diablo II version 1.0 which is only for PC and everytime i try download the native installer, the file unzips into the another zipped file and unzips to another and so on. after forking out money for parallels, for xp and for the stupid game, it's getting quite bothersome that it won't load at all. help anyone?

[Kim]

Try loading v.1.10 or v1.11. If you are trying to play the game on Parallels, then you are probably using PC mods. Most PC mods work on 1.10 or 1.11. If you are using 1.0, most mods will not work at all. I should mention that 1.12 came out recently, but plugy does not work with 1.12. Just stick to 1.10 or 1.11 and you will be fine.

*sigh* if someone could make a mac version of plugy, then that would be great.

[jojo80011]

I would love to see Star Trek Armada working. It won't start on Windows 98. Using Windows 2000/XP, t will run, but the cut scenes flicker, and in game play, the "fog" and the map does not work effectively. It is playable, but it would be nice to have this game perform as it was meant to.

[Dr. Phil]

Space Shuttle Mission 2007 isn't working under v4. with v3 no problems

[fabforrest]

Massive Assault 2 (MAN2) is working in v4 with one critical problem. for some reason, the "dots" located under the cities that define unit placement/movement locations are not visible and cannot be used for unit placement or movement. this is a big problem since the possession of the dot in the center of the city is critical to territorial control.

also, the game runs slowly, too slowly to be an effective medium.

[gsiisg]

I posted in the "Game Request in the next version" but I guess I should post here too.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning

"System video card fails minimum specs -- Warhammer will now terminate"

Everything meets the requirements but somehow it doesn't detect my video card as meeting the requirement on my macbook pro with ATi x1600 with 256MB of video RAM.

From
G.S.

[RedHerring]

Left 4 Dead!

[kjk]

Does Maple Story run under 4.0? thanks!

[dtmwtp]

I definitely posted this in another thread before I saw this one...


Hey, I know that version 4.0 is out, but I was wondering if a PC game from 2000 called Zeus: Master of Olympus is supposed to work? I'm using XP and it installed correctly, but when I double click the icon to start the game nothing happens even though it's using up 95%-99% of my CPU time.

[jdandrea]

Yay Parallels!

Loyal H. "Bud" Chapman's Infamous 18 (an AboutGolf simulator very similar to what you'd see at an indoor golf facility) now works on Parallels 4.0. I'm running it on an iMac 2.8GHz with 2GB RAM without any special changes to the XP Home Edition install.

Thanks!!!

[Baelzar]

Left 4 Dead

My friend bought me the game as a gift so we can co-op, and all I have to give him are sad 4.0 excuses.

Game doesn't recognize my video card, and everything goes purple.

[John@Parallels]

Update was published , which is right now available at http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=31764
The most of problem were fixed.
Please navigate to that link, and download build 3540
In post there are various instructions, how to fix problems.

[Heavysege]

Hi.

I could use some help...

i've seen people in here say they've gotten EU3 working with Parallels. I had tried on Parallels 3.0, and just given up because of its poor 3D support, but most of the games I had that were broken with 3.0 are now working in 4.0. EU3, however, is still not working for me.

I have an early 08 Macbook Pro, 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, GeForce 8600M GT 512MB VRAM, 1920x1200 LCD, and a Hitachi 185GB 7200rpm HDD, running 10.5.5 with all updates current. The install it is running off of is my BootCamp partition, running Windows XP SP3 with all current updates and (Apple-supplied) drivers, on the same HDD as my OS X install.

I always get exactly the same symptoms, no matter what I do - everything starts and runs fine through the intro movies and initialization, but when it gets to the start menu, the menu graphic is centered at the upper right hand corner of the screen (so I only see the lower left quarter of it), all the button graphics are mashed together, and the actual button hotspots are invisible at, presumably, their normal places on the screen.

This has happened with both Parallels 4.0 builds 3522 and 3540. It happens both with parallels in fullscreen mode and windowed. It happens in both those cases with EU3 running full screen or in a window, with multiple different resolutions chosen. It happens both with and without the 'Adjust the Host computer's resolution in full screen' box checked. It happens with parallels set to both 128mb and 256mb video ram. It happens with and without antialiasing on, and with and without each of all four video options checked in EU3. It happens at both 1024 and 1536mb of memory dedicated to the virtual machine. It happens with base EU3, with the Napoleon's Ambition addon, and with the In Nomine addon.

The game and both addons all run flawlessly when booted into Windows XP through Bootcamp.

I am out of ideas. Has anyone else seen this happen? Has anyone solved it, or does anyone have any suggestions of what else I might try?

Thank you.

heavysege@gmail.com

[BelgianBull]

MacBook 2,4Ghz, 4Gb DDR3 RAM, 250 Gb HD 10.5.5 & Parallels Desktop 4.0 (Build 3540) + XP Pro SP3
America's Army is running fine on all highest detail (2 cores running, 1024Mb RAM and 256Mb videocard for VM)... Finally!

[mrgrue]

In Parallels 3, I was able to run all the episodes of Sam and Max via Steam. The rendering was sometimes weird (blown out specular highlights on some characters), but the games worked.

In Parallels 4 (3540), Sam and Max won't even start. Steam says it's starting the game, but then nothing ever happens. In the Task Manager I can see both a "PRL_CC.EXE" and a "sammax101.exe" start and die, but that's it.

The game starts fine under Boot Camp.

- mr. grue

[gsiisg]

Still get the same error of failing min spec, even though I can run it fine under bootcamp.

From
G.S.

[Flagg]

Hello,

if a game was running properly in Parallels Desktop 3 and got messed up by installing Parallels Desktop 4, this may be caused by the fact that hardware, video cards for instance, is emulated in a different way in the newer version. A reinstall of the games in question might fix the issue. I understand, that this may be a painful experience to do for games running off Steam, but that would be the safest bet.

[nevlik]

I don't see reinstalling a game as doing the job, though in many cases it won't hurt (look out for those saved games tho!)

Firing up City of Heroes in P4, an error will pop up with:

You card or driver doesn't support GL_NV_vertex_program

The game to the login screen, though the mouse pointer behaves poorly (it creates a black bar on the screen wherever it goes). The game eventually crashes upon initial zone, with the following error message:

City of Heroes has encountered an error and cannot continue.

This error occurred while talking to the video card driver; getting the latest version of your video card drivers may eliminate this problem

Go to www.ati.com, www.nvidia.com or www.intel.com to get the latest video card drivers.

In some cases, such as laptops, you may need to get the latest drivers from your computer manufacturer's site.



Error message: pbuffer creation error: Couldn't query pixel formats.

This is WinXP with the 3504 updated P4, freshly upgraded and converted from P3 (where CoH loaded to game world, albeit with zero 3D graphics)

[mrgrue]

My upgrade from Parallels 3 to Parallels 4 involved me reinstalling XP from scratch into my Boot Camp partition due to the "autochk" problem. Obviously, this required me to reinstall Steam as well.

Since then, I've uninstalled and reinstalled Steam and my Steam-powered games a second time, just to check.

I suspect that doing it a third time won't help much. :)

Dxdiag reports I do have DirectX support, but I can't tell if the game believes that. The DX7 test sometimes flickers a bit, but the DX8 and DX9 tests look fine.

I don't suppose there's any way to turn switch to a "legacy mode" so we can choose whether we're getting the Parallels 3 or Parallels 4 video card emulation?

[Flagg]

Hello,

have you tried disabling 3D acceleration in Configure -> Video?

[mrgrue]

It hadn't occurred to me, since I'm trying to run a 3d game. But hey, I'll give it a shot.

<pause>

Nope. Unsurprisingly, Sam & Max 101 now complains that there is no 3d acceleration. Likewise, Dxdiag won't let me run any 3d tests.

The "legacy mode" I was hoping for didn't involve dropping 3d acceleration. I was asking if there was a way to switch between the 3d acceleration used by Parallels 3 and the 3d acceleration used by Parallels 4, since some things which worked in Parallels 3 no longer work in Parallels 4.

[Ctheiz]

Unfortunately, Worms Armageddon isn't running in Parallels 4.0 (3540) running XP-SP2. The game (and its patch for XP) install fine, but the game won't run.

Even if there is no easy fix for this, I'd at least like to know what's causing the incompatibility.

Thanks in advance.

[gsiisg]

Got the build number wrong, was suppose to say Parallels 4.0 build 3540 doesn't work with Warhammer online still.

From
G.S.

[Papinius]

Have had the same result, though version 1.3 of EU3 will not work at all, whereas version 1.0 will struggle but maps do not display correctly. Has anyone had any luck with EU3 in parallels 4?


Hi.

I could use some help...

i've seen people in here say they've gotten EU3 working with Parallels. I had tried on Parallels 3.0, and just given up because of its poor 3D support, but most of the games I had that were broken with 3.0 are now working in 4.0. EU3, however, is still not working for me.

I have an early 08 Macbook Pro, 2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, GeForce 8600M GT 512MB VRAM, 1920x1200 LCD, and a Hitachi 185GB 7200rpm HDD, running 10.5.5 with all updates current. The install it is running off of is my BootCamp partition, running Windows XP SP3 with all current updates and (Apple-supplied) drivers, on the same HDD as my OS X install.

I always get exactly the same symptoms, no matter what I do - everything starts and runs fine through the intro movies and initialization, but when it gets to the start menu, the menu graphic is centered at the upper right hand corner of the screen (so I only see the lower left quarter of it), all the button graphics are mashed together, and the actual button hotspots are invisible at, presumably, their normal places on the screen.

This has happened with both Parallels 4.0 builds 3522 and 3540. It happens both with parallels in fullscreen mode and windowed. It happens in both those cases with EU3 running full screen or in a window, with multiple different resolutions chosen. It happens both with and without the 'Adjust the Host computer's resolution in full screen' box checked. It happens with parallels set to both 128mb and 256mb video ram. It happens with and without antialiasing on, and with and without each of all four video options checked in EU3. It happens at both 1024 and 1536mb of memory dedicated to the virtual machine. It happens with base EU3, with the Napoleon's Ambition addon, and with the In Nomine addon.

The game and both addons all run flawlessly when booted into Windows XP through Bootcamp.

I am out of ideas. Has anyone else seen this happen? Has anyone solved it, or does anyone have any suggestions of what else I might try?

Thank you.

heavysege@gmail.com

[1337pikachu]

I have a problem playing maplestory, well not playing it, like graphics problem, when ever i see my character in the log in and in game screen, its a black block. it wasnt like this in parallels 3.0

[John@Parallels]

Try to play with enabling/disabling 3D acceleration in Virtual machine configuration

[saiyukicloud]

I dunno whether it is said or not but i would want to get DMC4 working. I got the fatal error pixel shader 2.0 not supported....

[John@Parallels]

Please post Game request to Game request in the next version thread

[AHazelton]

Saw that Pixel Shaders Model 2 support is available with 4.0.3810 but NWN2 is not quite working. Now it starts running but crashes soon after the screen resizes. I tried changing the FullScreen setting in the nwn2.ini file but it did not help.

[John@Parallels]

Please cjeck list of supported games
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/features/3d/

[wibble]

I've been having the oddest problem with source engine games. This is build 3810, WinXP SP3, on a new Macbook Pro 15" (unibody). Virtual machine is set for 2 processors, 1200MB ram, and 128 vram. Games like Half-Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source run impressively well (does parallels make use of the new add-on MPB 3d graphics processor?), except for the occasional 1-second hang-up, but there's one oddity, and one bad graphical glitch I'm seeing:

The oddity is that non-environment textures sometimes seem to be at a different brightness (or gamma) than environmental ones. I.e., player/npc models, boxes, debris, etc look washed out & bright compared to the world.

The glitch is that player & npc models occasionally disappear, except for shadows. This includes gun and hand models for my character, and enemies and their weapons. Moving around seems to randomly show and hide models.

??

[Tirial]

Ever since I upgraded to Parallels 3810, I've had the following problems with Civ 4. The boot screen main menu flickers between opaque and transparent (Picture 3), the loading screen does the same (Picture 4), and the city information in the game is not displayed (Picture 5).

This has only happened since I upgraded to the most recent build. I'm on a macbook pro (nov 2006), running XP sp3 in the virtual machine.

[John@Parallels]

Please first of all check supported games on new Virtual machine

[serv]

Tirial, thanks for your report. I'll file a bug on Civ 4.

[Techhead156]

wow.. what a long thread..... I spose i better stick my 2 cents worth in.

Descent 3 - minor graphics glitches on main menu

Call Of Duty 4 & 5 .... Of course who wouldn't wanna play COD under VM...

But all these threads make out like its soo easy to do... people probably just want them to work...... I know its harder in VM cause of hardware virtulization, and not everything is possible in a due to probably limitation of emulation of video . If Parallels could showhow gain control at the hardware level, the same they do with cd-rw drives (which is why cd recording is possible), then that would probably be alott easier..... Time will tell... however,

People do know that cpu goes up (particularly on 3D) games, not to mention running in a vm right??

[Zeagle]

I am having the same issue too. Civilization 4 worked very well in previous build. Since upgrading to build 3810 I have same graphic issues in game as Tirial.

Ever since I upgraded to Parallels 3810, I've had the following problems with Civ 4. The boot screen main menu flickers between opaque and transparent (Picture 3), the loading screen does the same (Picture 4), and the city information in the game is not displayed (Picture 5).

This has only happened since I upgraded to the most recent build. I'm on a macbook pro (nov 2006), running XP sp3 in the virtual machine.

[jadewolf]

Star Wars Episode 1 Racer; I posted a topic about it but thought I ought to post here too in case.

[jlocksmith]

Hitman: Blood Money and The Sims Deluxe Edition

[JaredV]

Please get the hitman series to work with parallels. the 3.0 version says hitman 2 will work but when i tried intalling it, a message came up saying it could not open the readme file. same applies for hitman contracts. on hitman blood money, i can completely finish the installation but when i try to run the game, a message comes up saying it cannot find dx file or something like that. i tried reinstalling with the direct x but nothing changed. i am using parallels 4.0

[KathrynW]

The game I want to work is The Adventure Company's Keepsake. It works right after I finish installing the game and patch 1.6, but not after I restart my Windows XP virtual machine. After I restart Windows XP there are a bunch of white boxes where some of the graphics used to be, such as where to click to start the game and the cursor is a moving white box. When I click to start the game there are more white boxes in the bottom left hand corner where you click to interact with the game's options. It should look like the lower screenshots found here: http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/keepsake/screenshots.html. Secrets of the Ark (also from the Adventure Company) works just fine and appears to be a newer game. Keepsake seems to skip the introductory credits when I restart the game after rebooting.

Another touchy game is Empire Interactive's Ghost Master. It likes to quit right after the opening credits, and when it does work there is a white bar across the screen where the cursor is located.

I have Parallels 4, and 3D acceleration has been enabled. Can you help me?

[ikisai]

searched thread for Homeworld and got nothing, despite it being on the lsit of siupported games it kept crashing on me after the 1.1 update (worked fine on 1.0)

in the end i found a thread to add a switch to the command line -fragment_program 0 so put this on the end of the shortcut and it should run

[jbonnema]

The total war Series, including Rome Total War, are my favorite games and part of the reason I purchased parallels. Please make them work.

Thank you!

[FrançoisC]

Cities XL is not working. When launching the game, an error message appears and indicates that the graphic card isn't powerful enough. We can still enter the game, but only see parts of the image and no text at all.

Is there anything I can do to make it work?

Thanks!

[jardincorenda]

Final Fantasy 11, this game worked slowly at times in PD4. About five minutes into loading in PD5 I got a blue screen and it crashed windows and rebooted. I can try it again get the event viewer crash info.