Windows Experience Index problems

I have MacBook Pro 15'', with 4gb ram, 2.5ghz Core 2 Duo, GeForce 8600 GT 512mb ram.

I have Parallels 3.0 installed running new 5608 June 9th build.

I have Vista Ultimate 32bit installed as VM (not using BootCamp)

Now tried to play a game Star Wars: An Empire Divided - yet was lucky enough to get 800x600 low everything working. Tried to up the resolution and couldn't view it properly as my windowed mode of Parallels was smaller than attempted res - no problems i got that.

I then went & checked my Experience index and my ranking was 1.0 (based on lowest result) as follows;

Processor 4.4
Memory 2.9
Graphics 1.0
Gaming graphics 1.0
Primary hard disk 5.9

I can't run Aero theme either. And general use of Vista inside Parallels the resolution and view is somewhat washed out and not very impressive as i thought it would & have seen it to be on other machines.

So every time i try and update my scores i get WinSat.exe stopped due to unexpected error.

Have DirectX ticked in VM settings, main memory allocated default 512mb, video memory allocated at default 16mb - and have tried every alternate.

Have installed and un-installed Vista/Parallels as well.

Any ideas on how to get this up higher so i can play games??

 

Graphics always be 1, VESA video cards emulated in VM
Memory about 1 gb, video 64 mb
Also check that game is supported on http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/features/3d/

 

Thanks will try these settings.

So if the game is NOT on this list then it's not expected to run smoothly or not at all??

 

Answer is ,
It depends ...
Many games are not listed but running without problems,
You can try to other settings
but we can guarantee only those mentioned in list

 

Thanks John for speedy reply!