After installing Parallels, my Geforce driver is acting up and won't run properly

Discussion in 'Installation and Configuration of Parallels Desktop' started by MickR, Apr 7, 2010.

  1. MickR

    MickR Bit poster

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    After installing parallels on my macbook pro, I've had troubles with the video card running games on OSX (parallels turned off). Every time i run the game 'Football manager 2010'. It's come up with the problem;

    Thread 4 Crashed:
    0 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x8f13e303 gldAttachDrawable + 2579
    1 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x8f1fd8a5 gldUpdateDispatch + 15349
    2 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x8f1fdbf0 gldFlush + 80
    3 com.apple.GeForceGLDriver 0x8f13e420 gldFlushObject + 64

    and many more lines.

    Its never happened before until the isntallation of parallels. I suspect its a driver issue. I still have my macbook pro install dvds. Is there any way of addressing this through parallels?

    Is there any way of rolling back the video driver?

    sorry if its a simple task, i'm just very novice with the virtual machine environment
     
  2. Shaddam IV

    Shaddam IV Forum Maven

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    Have you recently updated to 10.6.3? Apple changed their video drivers there (to improve OpenGL compatibility). Wouldn't surprise me if that broke some games - I had that a while back when Homeworld 2 wouldn't run on my Mac anymore.
    The easiest way to find out whether Parallels is the culprit is to de-install it (keep your VM files though), re-start, and try again. If the game still doesn't work, try reinstalling Mac OS X (make a Time Machine backup beforehand, install OS X, do all updates, and restore from Time Machine to save yourself a lot of reinstalling trouble). Then try the Football manager again.
    Parallels doesn't mess with the Mac's video drivers for all I know. It does install a few kernel extensions but these are to do with networking and processing requests for a Windows app to be opened after a double-click on a document file (alhtough I'm not sure whether that part is done via a kernel extension or a daemon).
     

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