Parallels 6 regresses Quicken scrolling

I bought Parallels 5 for Mac because it handled scrolling in Quicken much better than VMWare's Fusion. Parallels 6 seems to have regressed and scrolling is now much slower. Is anyone else seeing this and are there any work-arounds?

 

Check the Video settings in the configuration. Is the Video memory set to 256 MB? Try turning on or off the Enable 3D acceleration and Vertical sync options.

Check the Optimization settings also.

Make sure the Memory isn't set higher than half your Mac's Memory.

 

All settings are exactly the same as under Parallels 5. Video Memory 256, 3D and vertical sync both on, tried both 1G and 1.5G on a 4G MacBook pro. None of this seemed to make a difference. I've reinstalled Parallels 5 and the scrolling is back to normal. I only have one Mac. Is there any way to have both v5 and v6 installed on the same machine so I can switch back and forth for further testing?

 

Yes -- scrolling is broken in P6!

I chatted with their support about this last night and they claimed to have no other complaints, but I can confirm that in my Windows 7, Windows XP, and Ubuntu VM's scrolling does not work right when in a window in any app. I wish I had never upgraded from V5.

Strangely, under Windows 7 coherence it doesn't seem that bad.

Also, in other ways, my MacBook seems slower under P V6 -- both inside virtual machines and using native mac. But the scrolling is the killer for anyone used to it working like it used to.

Should I wait for a V6 solution or downgrade -- and how do you downgrade since it already updated the files?

 

No other complaints? Mouse scrolling issues are being experienced by many people, there is another thread on it. I also reported it using Help / Report a Problem within Parallels.

 

Here is a link to a KB article about downgrading. http://kb.parallels.com/en/8913
Good luck though. Fortunately I backed up my v5 VMs before I did the upgrade so downgrading meant just restoring them. When I try to start one of my upgraded v6 VMs under v5 I get a message that there is no OS installed.

 

Yes, I have the same problem with scrolling. Inside Visual Studio amongst other programs. It was enough reason for me to go back to version 5 and wait for a fix before trying 6 again.

 

Hi Jim,

In which view modes you are experiencing this problem? (Windowed/Full Screen/Coherence/Modality)

 

I always work in full-screen mode.

 

So I installed Build 6.0.11822...

...and the scrolling issue might be marginally improved, but it is still there. Since it worked fine in 5 and everyone is complaining, there must be an easy fix...when Parallels team? Are you having trouble recreating this issue?

 

Hi,

the scrolling issue is fixed and will be available in the upcoming update (which is not far off)

 

How will we find out when this next version is available? Is it announced somewhere?

 

Check the Parallels Desktop preferences. There's an option that checks for updates once a week. You can also check once a day.

 

Joevt, I've restored to v5 so that preference just nags me to upgrade to v6. I'm looking for a notification when v6 is updated to fix this scrolling bug.

 

Any way to test this updated version after a trial has expired? I'd rather not put $80 before making sure the scrolling is working smooth again.

 

Yet another XP user with a mouse problem

PCB design is problematic. Hope the fix is coming quickly.

 

Scrolling issue

Is scrolling issue fixed yet? I would like to upgrade, but only when problem is fixed.

YuriyM of Parallels Team said issue would be fixed soon.............
Any idea when that will be Parallels Team?

Robin

 

No, not fixed yet. Not far off.. was 3 weeks ago. Still waiting.

 

Update released. See http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=105308 for details.