I have the Build 1848 (final version) of Parallels installed on an 2GHz iMac. Into it I installed a retail version of XP Home w/ SP2 and downloaded all online updates from MS. The only program I run is "Pinball" which plays, just the sound cuts out after about a minute. Sound returns after a reboot of the Windows environment. The Windows Control Panels show no obvious "conflict" and all report "This device is working properly." Is there a setting change / driver download I need to do in the WIndows world? Is this a known issue with Parallels? Are other folks able to listen to sounds? My daughter's Disney games won't be the same without sound! Thanks.
I have similar problems. I watch some videos on the internet (through browser plugins) and the sound cuts out after few minutes. I restart VM and it works fine again for few minutes. I have the final release.
I seem to have found some success if I do the following: immediately after WIndows boots up, I click on the speaker/volume control icon in the bottom right and adjust the volume up a tad. After doing that, I was able to play Pinball several games and did not lose sound. I have not tried again without touching the volume control to see if the problem re-appears. Perhaps this fiddling caused Windows to do something/write something that "fixes" the problem?
Try this to see if it helps: In Windows XP... 1) Start -> Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Properties 2) Under Speaker settings click Advanced... 3) In the Advanced Audio Properties window click the Performance tab 4) Slide the Hardware acceleration to None (full left) 5) Slide the Sample rate conversion quality left one notch from Best. Now try your program. If everything works okay, go back and increase the Hardware acceleration one notch and try it again. Keep doing this until you hit the problem again then revert to the last known good setting. Optionally increase the Sample rate last. If you have Hardware acceleration set to None and you still have the problem, reduce the Sample rate to Good and make sure the Mac OS is not trying to play something (e.g., iTunes is not running).
This seems to have done the trick. I installed Vongo last night and sound kept cutting out during movies driving me nuts. I was _this_ close to installing bootcamp, thanks for saving me!
Or not, worked for one movie, now the sound is dropping out again. Looks like I'll have to go with bootcamp after all.
