Parallel desktop graphic issue.?

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My Friend have installed Parallels Desktop 7 on my mac book pro 2011. He's currently using the bootcamp partition for windows. Everything works fine except the error that he always get on starting the machine.

" the catalyst control center is not supported by the driver version of the enabled graphic adapter.Please update you r AMD graphics driver or enable your AMD adapter using the display manager.

can anyone suggest what should be done?
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Try to go to Devise Manger ( devmgmt.msc) and look for AVG driver. Disable it if present and check the performance both in virtual machine and in Native Boot Camp
 
Same problem here... no idea what is meant / what the relevance of an AVG driver mentioned in the last post is. Anyone come up with a fix for this? Using Parallels with a boot camp partition.
 
The reason i mentioned it is that Parallels Installed it's own video driver, which may conflict with AVG drivers being previously installed in Windows
 
YanaYana said:
The reason i mentioned it is that Parallels Installed it's own video driver, which may conflict with AVG drivers being previously installed in Windows
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I think the problem with your answer is that "AVG" is anti-virus software and has nothing to do with graphics drivers.

If you are regularly switching between boot camp and PD, you might have to live with this error, since, as mentioned, you'd have to uninstall/disable the drivers and CCC to get rid of it in PD. If you're not using the features of CCC, just uninstall it.

Steve
 
Sure, AVG is antivirus, that's right, but Parallels Drivers may (and it happens often) be blocked/have a conflict with antivirus software - so try to disable it and see if it was the reason
 
AVG doesn't install a device driver and doesn't have anything to do with this.

The reason this error occurs is that the ATI driver package, when installed via Boot Camp (eg, booted natively into Windows) installs a startup item called "ATI Catalyst Control Center" which allows you to control various aspects of the card, change resolution, etc from the system tray. When you boot into parallels the actual ATI driver that the system tray application talks to isn't present, instead the machine is configured to use the Parallels graphics drivers.

In any event, as long as you don't need the system tray application in Windows (personally I never use it, but I only boot fully into Windows to play games), you should be able to disable the application from autostarting and then you won't have to deal with getting the warning every time you boot Parallels. I have not tried it yet, but the directions on this page look promising:

http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_4.html
 
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