I have managed to get this game running, however I am having horrible issues with artifacts. They occur around any character, and the game significantly slowly down when this happens. In open areas, I can see the speed significantly pick up. I am using the newest generation Macbook Pro 13.3", core i5, 4 GB of ram, intel 3000 graphics. I am running a Windows 7 virtual machine (I changed over from Windows XP, but even running Windows 7 feels unbearably slow) on 4 cores, 1024 MB of RAM, and 256 MB of video ram. I am running the latest version of Parallels, have performed all the latest updates for the game, and made sure my OSX is up to date. I have heard that others have been able to run this game fine without any problems. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to fix this annoying problem? Thanks!
I'd try giving your VM only 1 or 2 cores, upping the RAM to 1.5 GB and for sure give the video ram a bump to at least 512 MB. Good luck.
you're probably not looking for this answer, but because it hasn't been said yet.......... a small bootcamp partition for graphics-intense games like that would probably serve you well
That's actually the exact setup I had. Upgrading to Lion destroyed my bootcamp installation, trying to reinstall Windows on the same partition failed as I was unable to install the bootcamp drivers after Windows installation (they didn't install on their own). I tried to start from scratch by deleting the partition and creating a new one, however the bootcamp installer does not let me and says that there are files which it cannot move around and asks me to format my drive. I am NOT doing that. Speed is slightly better, artifacts are still there and cause a terrible slowdown. Any suggestions, or how to be able to partition? I tried running iDefrag but no luck, didn't try the full defrag as not sure how to burn it to a standalone CD
Birch, This issue is specific to Intel HD3000 on 10.7.1. Try this as workaround: . Shut down your VM and open Virtual Machine Configuration . Select Hardware tab, Boot Order section . In Boot flags field type in "video.fast_vs_const_access=0" without quotes
Can you please explain what this option means? Is it to force always use Intel HD3000 graphics card or the opposite?
video.fast_vs_const_access=0 is a workaround for Intel shader compiler bug. It doesn't improve speed, it corrects rendering in some relatively narrow case. Parallels Desktop, expectedly, enables all graphics optimizations by default. If you're having a particular performance issue, name your game/app, describe the issue, and post a problem report id (Help menu > Report a problem).
