Running World of Warcraft Classic

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by DanielG61, Nov 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM.

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    I have MacBook Pro with M1 chip and 16Gb of RAM.
    I just wanted to test if I can run Windows 11 in Parallels and play World of Warcraft. Battle.net & the game itself installs just fine. But when trying to run the game... initial intro video was fine, but as soon as this finished the whole screen started flashing black & white. It looks as if the game keeps restarting itself constantly and I have to hit Alt+F4 to stop the flicker. Nothing ever renders. I tried adding the `d3d11` flag to the game startup, but that does not help either. Parallels is optimized for gaming. I boosted up CPUs and RAM. Nothing helps.
    Has any1 had any luck with this setup?
     
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    Turns out even simpler games like Age of Empires DE complains about the system not meeting "minimum requirements" :shrug:
     
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    I checked some stuff and all looks fine... but pretty much every game complains
     

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