My thoughts on Parallels 3.0...

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tomozj

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I've been messing around with it for a few hours now, and all looks great.

I, myself, am preety pleased with this update. The 3D hardware graphics acceleration support is great news, and I love it.

I didn't realize that DirectX 9+ wasn't supported at first, which confused me, but now I know I still don't really mind. At least now I know it's a work in progess, and that the 9.0 support is on it's way sometime soon.

Strange thing is though, I tried running GTA: SA via SA-MP, and the game actually loaded, and I saw everything for a minute. The game rendered, people running around etc. Then... it crashed. But still - if it ran for a minute, is there a way of using this to allow us to run 9.0 games?

If you need any crash reports etc, just PM me, and I'd be happy to help :)

-tj
 
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There's a lot of negativity on the board, at least what I read through. I, too, am thrilled with the update. I use bootcamp so that I can bring my Mac to work and use it in our PC environment. EVERY office application runs beautifully, and the networking support is equally good. I am currently running the following platform:

  • 2.33 Core Duo with 2 GB 667 MHZ DDR2 SDRAM
  • Windows Vista Ultimate
  • Bootcamp 1.3 Beta

I recently wiped my hard drive to help with some file system issues (unrelated to parallels), and reinstalled Mac OS X 10.4.8 and my Mac software. I then created a Boot Camp disk with the Boot Camp software and installed Vista. Once Parallels 3.0 came out, I installed it and pointed it towards my Boot Camp partition. Voila! It started running perfectly. I had one small snag with needing to reactivate Windows because of a "hardware change" but a quick call to the Microsoft Phone Activation unit solved that problem.

The only remaining minor concern is that movies seem to playback VERY slowly, but I'm sure there's a way to fix that.

In summary, Parallels is a wonderful product for me, and I'm glad that it exists. It was a pain in the ass for the 5 days that I was in boot camp, and had to reboot to get into my Mac stuff. Thanks, Parallels, for creating an elegant solution for my computer needs.
 
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