Running Rome:Total War on Parallels 3.0

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I have a MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.4.10. I've been running Parallels 3.0 since October and I've been pleased with it so far. As one of the artists developing the free-ware RTS game 0 A.D. (www.wildfiregames.com/0ad), I realized that I needed to be able to run Windows for testing purposes. It took some time to get TortoiseSVN to gather all the necessary files correctly, but I eventually got it to run perfectly.

I recently purchased a copy of Rome:Total War Gold Edition (with the Barbarians Expansion included) and I installed DirectX 10. Installation was flawless, however I ran across the following errors when I tried to run it. The logo in the menu was blocked out and the mouse was nowhere to be found. When I tried to hit esc to exit the program, the yes/no buttons also came up white, so I had to hit F11 and Quit the application via my dock.

 
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I have a MacBook Pro running Mac OSX 10.4.10. I've been running Parallels 3.0 since October and I've been pleased with it so far. As one of the artists developing the free-ware RTS game 0 A.D. (www.wildfiregames.com/0ad), I realized that I needed to be able to run Windows for testing purposes. It took some time to get TortoiseSVN to gather all the necessary files correctly, but I eventually got it to run perfectly.

I recently purchased a copy of Rome:Total War Gold Edition (with the Barbarians Expansion included) and I installed DirectX 10. Installation was flawless, however I ran across the following errors when I tried to run it. The logo in the menu was blocked out and the mouse was nowhere to be found. When I tried to hit esc to exit the program, the yes/no buttons also came up white, so I had to hit F11 and Quit the application via my dock.

I hope you realize it is specified that Parallel 3.0 supports only DirectX 8.1 applications.
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Hello,

fbronner is right, for now, Parallels doesn't support DirectX9.0. We're working on this and hope that it will be added in future versions.

Best regards,
Alicia.
 
Hi again. I recently upgraded to Mac OSX Leopard and I was wondering if there's some sort of update I should be getting for compatibility.

Also, what's the word on a version that supports DirectX 9 and up?
 
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