Flickering problems when switching to Windows guest (Parallels 13, High Sierra)

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Today, I installed both macOS High Sierra (10.13) and Parallels Desktop 13 for Mac Pro Edition (Version 13.1.0 (43108)).
My Windows guest runs Windows 7 (Ultimate N).
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012).
I run both the macOS and Windows displays at 2048x1280.

Now, when I switch (swipe) from macOS to the full-screen Windows guest, the Windows display either flickers or displays an altered/random ghost image momentarily before it settles. It happens roughly half the time, and this never happened prior to today.

I tried several remedies suggested in other "flickering" posts, e.g., giving more graphics memory to the VM, setting up a boot-time parameter, re-installing Parallels Tools, re-installing Parallels Desktop 13, etc, all the no avail.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Joe
 
UPDATE: After experimenting with several VM settings, the problem only occurs if DirectX 9/10 acceleration is enabled. If I disable it, the problem goes away, at the cost of slow Windows graphics. I hope the issue will be fixed in a later release.
 
JoeL3 said:
UPDATE: After experimenting with several VM settings, the problem only occurs if DirectX 9/10 acceleration is enabled. If I disable it, the problem goes away, at the cost of slow Windows graphics. I hope the issue will be fixed in a later release.
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Hi @JoeL3, yes, we are aware of this issue. We have already forwarded the request to the Engineering team and we will let you know once we have an update regarding this. Thanks!
 
JoeL3 said:
UPDATE: After experimenting with several VM settings, the problem only occurs if DirectX 9/10 acceleration is enabled. If I disable it, the problem goes away, at the cost of slow Windows graphics. I hope the issue will be fixed in a later release.
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This seems to work for me so far...just a little slow on graphics items...hopefully this will be fixed soon.
 
Same here, most of swipe gestures to move from macOS to Windows generate, during transition, black/white vertical bars and flickering artifacts. Actually this is happening even before latest version 13.1.1 (43120).
Macbook Pro Late 2013 - NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2 GB / Intel Iris Pro 1536 MB
Unfortunately turning off DirectX is not a viable option for me.
 
same behavior with linux guest (ubuntu 17.10) and I can confirm - it is NOT resolved in 43213.

VERY annoying! In addition to parallels random crashes with data loss I'm absolutely disappointed with this release!

P.S.: just stumbled upon http://kb.parallels.com/ru/123840 it reads that flicker should be fixed in upcoming macos update. We'll see...

P.P.S.: aaaand... updating to macos to 10.13.1 does NOT resolve flicker for me! :mad:
 
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Ditto on the flickering, but I also get screen graphics corruption when colleagues are sharing their desktop over Skype for Business, where I am running Skype in my Win10 virtual image on Parallels 13
 
This is causing some problems and completely slows down the Mac side of things. Any update as to when this will be resolved to work with High Sierra? I am running Parallels 13 with a Win10 VM on a Late 2013 MBP.
 
Same, on parallels 13, after updating to High Sierra.
This is impossible to work, the switch is hard between OSX to Win10.

This fix needs to get priority.. will it be available to version 12 too?
 
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I'm happily reporting that there is no flicker in Parallels 13.2.0 (43213) with macos high sierra 10.13.2 (17C88).
but there was flicker with the same parallels version on high sierra 10.13.1. (YMMV though...)
time to upgrade your os-es (remember that christmas "gifts" - meltdown and spectre. first vuln is handled in 10.13.2 too!)
 
Flickering is gone but now there is some graphical anomalies. Example: When you go into settings the "Up" is missing from "Update & security" option. This happens in quite a few other places as well.

Windows Server 2016 guest.
 
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