Poor graphics in Win XP/Parallels

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Hi - I'm using the latest version 3188 of Parallels to run a Win XP VM. The graphics rendering seems to be poor in this VM.. for example, the fonts for any program like IE, Word, Powerpoint, etc. aren't as solid as they would be on a normal display.. so it's quite hard to read a MS Word document for too long or even surf a website using the VM.. I tried full screen mode as well as coherence and OS Window modes but all of them are pretty much the same.. does anyone have any suggestions on settings that I can change to have the graphics be rendered properly?

Thanks,
NG
 
Use Boot Camp for running Windows. Personally I don't see the problem you're having but the notion of typeface rendering quality is rather subjective.
 
So bad that the screen shows tearing?

I've a similar problem: I'm running WinXP on my Macbook on the bootcamp partion. Everything with this is fine, but when I run this same Windows under Parallels (3188), then I get sort of a tearing when scrolling.
I mean that when I use IE 6 and scroll an article, then the text appears to "break" vertically during the scroll, regardless whether in full screen or windowed

Is this standard behavior, or may I be using some wrong settings?
 
I'm not really doing anything fancy that requires a lot of graphical processing. Simple viewing of a webpage in Firefox, viewing a document in Word, etc.. the font "breaks" like kuebler mentions above.. though I agree font rendering is subjective, what I'm seeing is quite conspicuous so it's hard to miss... looks like I'm not the only one seeing this behavior and looks like there are folks who don't have this problem, so wondering if it's a config issue...
 
I have made a check on the Mac Mini (1.66 MHz Core Duo) of my wife, which also uses an Intel GMA 950 chipset. On this machine the tearing is significantly less obvious, but still existing.
 
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