games

None of EA/Origin games on Steam work in Parallels. Other Steam games run without issues. What is the reason for this? Thanks!

Hello, I have installed Parallels 17 trial on my MacBook Pro m1, atm I use windows 11 insider, and on xbox app they not installing here, says I need administrator, but I can't right click on app on win11 it not show run as administrator, also games who use battleye not run, like (tibia). Tried...

Hello! Could you help me, please? I'm a Mac user and I downloaded a game on "Parallels Desktop". First, when I tried to open a game there was a error: "Sorry this application cannot be run under a virtual machine" (I clicked on "Let's start a game" in pop-up window). And when I restarted a...

Hi I've used Parallels in the past for a multitude of different things in the past: running a decent MSN / Live Messenger at the time; running Outlook before Mac Mail became decent enough to switch; running a programming environment, eg Delphi or using something like Power BI / SQL Server One...

Guys, I installed the windows 20231 build, but its not running my games, so I tried to find the build 21277 but I don't found the download link, anyone knows where I can find it?

I've just installed Parallel desktop 16.1 on Mac OS Big Sur, and now I'm unable to launch Age Of Empire 3 DE, instead I have this pop up message (see attached file). Does Parallel 16.1 made some changes regarding Direct3D ? Everything works fine under Parallel 16.0. I've not changed anything on...

System setup: iMac i7 3.8GHz, 64GB RAM Radeon Pro 5700XT, 16GB RAM Software failing: Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2020 I've been figuring out how to run MSFS on a 2020 iMac. My Mac easily meets the 'ideal' system requirements for the game. Parallels standard version is unable to run MSFS...

I am having a an issue with games stuttering in Parallels. I've been testing a lot with an older title - Skyrim - as I played this through an older version of Parallels on a previous (older) MacBook Pro with no problems at all, even on higher graphics settings. Now when I play it judders...

Hi, I have successfully installed from Steam AoM, the game launched after I fixed the full scream error, the game start but the moment that I try to play a game it closes up, it finished the loading and then close, the message is the followed: Memory system error: parallels unable to allocate...

I am currently a Mac user running parallels 16 windows os. I have been playing games without a problem until my razer naga hex broke. I switched to my apple Magic Mouse 2, which when playing Minecraft prevented me from moving my mouse left to right. When I turned optimization off, the mouse...

I use a Windows XP VM to play some of my oldest games and up until the latest upgrade to version 16 had the option to enable "Vertical Sync" which is now missing and get severe frame tearing issues. If I search the configuration panel for the option it acts like the option should be in the...

I am virtualizing Windows 10 Pro on a MacBook Pro. When running a game, CPU usage shoots up to 100% (or more) as verified by the Windows Task Manager and the macOS Activity Monitor. CPU usage drops to next-to-nothing the second I quit the game. Please note that these are old games so they are...

I am running a Catalina guest on a Mojave Mac. When I try to run some Apple Arcade games, I get an error titled "OpenGL Not Supported" with the message "You must have a Metal compatible graphics card and be running Mac OS X 10.11.6 or later to launch this process." I upgraded to Parallels 15...

Hi All, I'm currently trialing parallels due to the claim that you can play (some) games with it. I'm trying to get PoE up and running, I have it installed and can get into the game and play, however the graphics are extremely blurry. I've tried messing around with various resolutions (it...

Hi there! I have experienced this in a couple games (Black Desert, Planet Coaster, SWTOR): With the exception of Black Desert (runs poorly), I am able to run on at least at 30-60fps the other two games, but there are hitches about every 5 sec and all the textures appear to completely reload...

Hi folks. I'm encountering TERRIBLE mouse lag in fullscreen windows games under parallels 15. 1.) Using 2 of my 4 mac CPUs for the VM, and 1/2 the RAM as recommended. USB mouse. 2.) I've installed the custom boot flag for the USB mouse recommended for previous parallels previous versions...

Hi there, I installed Skyrim in my Parallels 14 VM, and after installing some mods it said 'd3dx9_43.dll' is missing at game startup and crashed. I saw that this was a common problem with the game / mods itself and the solution was to download the d3dx9_43.dll (Microsoft DirectX 9.0c) from the...

Hi there! I've been seeing a bit of chatter about DX11/12 support in the feature requests section, and I was wondering how you plan to implement this? Do you have your own in house DX11/12 --> Metal translation or would you be using something like MoltenVK + DXVK? Any information is...

I recently downloaded Parallels 13 to play a game on Steam that only supports Windows. The game is Hakuoki Kyoto Winds and I was able to install it but when I click play... the game runs and a black screen pops up for a few seconds and closes and nothing happens. It's like the game crashed...

Hello everyone, Last summer I bought and tried to run "Train Sim World" (Steam, DirectX10) on Parallels 13, but it crashed as soon a locomotive would be displayed. Just recently I've updated to Parallels 14 hoping it would work now. I've chosen "Games only" in the VM settings, put the VM...