MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)
macOS Sierra, 10.12 Beta
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
Hello,
I purchased Parallels Desktop 12 yesterday as an upgrade to my previous PD10. I most often use parallels for gaming purposes, though I also use it for school with programs like MS Visual Studio and Autodesk applications. I've been using the macOS Sierra Beta version for a couple months now and PD10 had been working on it flawlessly, but when an update comes out you just have to have "the latest and greatest" version, right? Most of the touted improvements to PD in version 12 are under-the-hood improvements, unfortunately it seems like some bugs have accompanied these improvements. My two main issues with the way PD12 performs are as follows:
In PD10, I could open applications and play games while in Coherence and they would open up to be fullscreen. With PD12, my game doesn't automatically open to fullscreen anymore. In fact, I can't even make it fullscreen because there aren't buttons at the top of the window and the View -> Enter Fullscreen button is grayed-out. This issue is mostly resolved by exiting Coherence and entering the fullscreen view manually. I suppose that works, but comparing this performance of the new version to the 'archaic' PD10 is like taking a step back. I suppose this problem came about because of the attempted improvements to Coherence itself, and can't imagine it being a difficult fix. I love Coherence and when I use other Windows applications like Visual Studio or AutoCad it's so nice to have a Windows application float seamlessly over my Mac Desktop. I mainly love feeling like I'm not using Windows while I'm using its applications.
The second issue I have is a little bit more annoying. I use a wireless Xbox 360 controller connected to my computer with a USB receiver. While gaming on Windows using PD10, my computer never went to sleep. It wouldn't even go to sleep if I left my computer, regardless of whether I was connected to power or not. Now that I have PD12, my computer goes to sleep in the normal 10-15 minutes, regardless of me being in the middle of my game, as if I wasn't even using the computer. This is a very unfortunate and confusing bug to me, especially since it hasn't ever been an issue before.
I love Parallels and the ease that it offers in using multiple platforms. I'm feeling a little bit of buyer's remorse though for having bought the updated version so quickly and violating the "don't fix it if it isn't broken" rule. I'm a student and can't quite afford to spend $50 on something that doesn't work the way I intended it would, on something that feels like a step back rather than a step forward. If anyone has any advice on what I can do to fix these issues myself, please let me know. If these problems are purely due to the update, I'd deeply appreciate some sort of patch to correct these issues and make Parallels as user-friendly as I've been used to it being. If neither of these are options I may just call it a loss and revert back to PD10.
Thank you for your time and response,
Tyler
macOS Sierra, 10.12 Beta
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
Hello,
I purchased Parallels Desktop 12 yesterday as an upgrade to my previous PD10. I most often use parallels for gaming purposes, though I also use it for school with programs like MS Visual Studio and Autodesk applications. I've been using the macOS Sierra Beta version for a couple months now and PD10 had been working on it flawlessly, but when an update comes out you just have to have "the latest and greatest" version, right? Most of the touted improvements to PD in version 12 are under-the-hood improvements, unfortunately it seems like some bugs have accompanied these improvements. My two main issues with the way PD12 performs are as follows:
In PD10, I could open applications and play games while in Coherence and they would open up to be fullscreen. With PD12, my game doesn't automatically open to fullscreen anymore. In fact, I can't even make it fullscreen because there aren't buttons at the top of the window and the View -> Enter Fullscreen button is grayed-out. This issue is mostly resolved by exiting Coherence and entering the fullscreen view manually. I suppose that works, but comparing this performance of the new version to the 'archaic' PD10 is like taking a step back. I suppose this problem came about because of the attempted improvements to Coherence itself, and can't imagine it being a difficult fix. I love Coherence and when I use other Windows applications like Visual Studio or AutoCad it's so nice to have a Windows application float seamlessly over my Mac Desktop. I mainly love feeling like I'm not using Windows while I'm using its applications.
The second issue I have is a little bit more annoying. I use a wireless Xbox 360 controller connected to my computer with a USB receiver. While gaming on Windows using PD10, my computer never went to sleep. It wouldn't even go to sleep if I left my computer, regardless of whether I was connected to power or not. Now that I have PD12, my computer goes to sleep in the normal 10-15 minutes, regardless of me being in the middle of my game, as if I wasn't even using the computer. This is a very unfortunate and confusing bug to me, especially since it hasn't ever been an issue before.
I love Parallels and the ease that it offers in using multiple platforms. I'm feeling a little bit of buyer's remorse though for having bought the updated version so quickly and violating the "don't fix it if it isn't broken" rule. I'm a student and can't quite afford to spend $50 on something that doesn't work the way I intended it would, on something that feels like a step back rather than a step forward. If anyone has any advice on what I can do to fix these issues myself, please let me know. If these problems are purely due to the update, I'd deeply appreciate some sort of patch to correct these issues and make Parallels as user-friendly as I've been used to it being. If neither of these are options I may just call it a loss and revert back to PD10.
Thank you for your time and response,
Tyler
