Enabling DirectX and Vista's games

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Ever since I enabled DirectX from my Vista's VM, the games just won't open except for Chess Titans and Inkball.

The error messages were the same, something like A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
 
Stevamundo said:
Ever since I enabled DirectX from my Vista's VM, the games just won't open except for Chess Titans and Inkball.

The error messages were the same, something like A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
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Times like this I wish I knew how to enable debug mode in Parallels. It would be great to get meaningful error messages instead of Microsoft's honey-sweet non-threatening have a nice day error - excuse me, disappointment messages.

hey - while I'm thinking about it, how is your Morse code stuff working with PD3 and Fusion Beta 4? I haven't had any free time to explore the leads you put me in touch with yet but hope to get back to it soon.
 
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dkp said:
Times like this I wish I knew how to enable debug mode in Parallels. It would be great to get meaningful error messages instead of Microsoft's honey-sweet non-threatening have a nice day error - excuse me, disappointment messages.

hey - while I'm thinking about it, how is your Morse code stuff working with PD3 and Fusion Beta 4? I haven't had any free time to explore the leads you put me in touch with yet but hope to get back to it soon.
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Dennis, because Microsoft is so pissy with their activation keys, I had to dump one of the programs. Because Fusion is still a beta and Parallels is not I choose Parallels. So I don't know how Fusion 4 works with the Morse code.

I guess I could in install 4 and install XP and run it for 3 weeks until I need to put my activation key in.
 
Neither Parallels 3.0 nor VMWare Fusion Beta 4 supports Direct X 9 drivers for Vista,

People, neither Parallels 3.0 nor VMWare Fusion Beta 4 supports Direct X 9 drivers for Vista, but both of them support for XP the Direct X 8 drivers. Although Parallels supports Coherence for Vista and Fusion doesn't have support for Unity (Coherence) on Vista.
 
PuppyPR said:
People, neither Parallels 3.0 nor VMWare Fusion Beta 4 supports Direct X 9 drivers for Vista, but both of them support for XP the Direct X 8 drivers. Although Parallels supports Coherence for Vista and Fusion doesn't have support for Unity (Coherence) on Vista.
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So, what does this mean for most of Vista's games are unable to open while DirectX is enabled?
 
Stevamundo said:
I have to admit that Vista is a pain in the butt.

Leopard HAS to be BETTER than that crap.
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hell, right now theres really nothing even wrong with tiger. ;)

The only reason most people are going to want vista is because microsoft will inevitably giving XP the axe.
 
This recent post brings up an interesting issue regarding graphics support:
http://forum.parallels.com/thread12563.html

The Fusion people have identified problems with Intel drivers in the MBP and Mac Mini systems that prevents proper graphics support. I wonder if Parallels has worked around it, or of some of the problems people are having is related to this driver issue.
 
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