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

[MickR]

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

 

[Shaddam IV]

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).