Finally 1898 works on my Mac Pro ...even if I did have to throw away 2GB to make it happen... Anyway, I just installed it to see what the performance of SketchUp would be like -- and I'm pretty impressed. SU is a very heavy OpenGL user, and the performance (in orbiting views, panning, zooming) seems to be about 80% as fast as under native XP. So a big plea to you all at Parallels --- fix the RAM limit problem -- then you'll have my money!!! also, I wanted to download the latest nVidia drivers for XP, to see if they would speed up my OGL performance, but the installer kept reporting "nVidia drivers cannot be installed on this type of hardware. The installer will now quit" Anyone know why this happens?
1. Memory problem fix is on the way and will go public very soon. 2. In guest XP we emulate generic VESA compatible video card - so you can't install nVidia drivers inside guest.
Emulating non-standard card How come parallels spends resources emulating this card rather than supporting the limited number of cards available on the intel mac platform? And do you have any kind of prediction of when this is changing? Is it a development priority?
The video subsystem MUST be emulated since it is shared between host and guest. Since emulation is required, they picked a device to emulate across all platforms so that a VM can be copied to any host and will run. The particular cards that Apple (or anyone else) supports are not relevant.
And that isn't likely to change until graphics card (chip) vendors offer hardware virtualization support similar to what intel has done with VT.
But then didn't Parallels say it's going to support 3D in PDM by the end of the year? Maybe it's still emulation, but it must be a lot quicker than what we're getting right now.
