Running Windows 7, 32 Bit through Parallels 6 on a 2.2GHz Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM. I just thought I'd post what games currently work and don't work for me. (I haven't found enough of these lists so I thought I'd make my own)
Works (with minimal or no problems):
- Fallout: New Vegas (requires some fixes such as the d3d9.dll and messing around with ffdshow if you have it)
- Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition (I understand there is a native version available, however, it does run fairly well in Parallels.)
- World of Warcraft (Yes, I am aware this one has a native version too. I tested it anyway.)
- Prius Online (Some of the actor shadows look like they have no AA, but it's playable!)
- Dungeon Siege III
- Drakensaang: The River of Time
- The Elder Scrolls IV - Oblivion + The Shivering Isles
- Hellgate: London
- The Sims: Medieval (This one has a native version too, but it works.)
- Assassin's Creed
- Divinity II
- Saints Row II
- Mythic Blades
- Faery - Legends of Avalon
- Priston Tale II
- Dungeons and Dragons Online
- APB Reloaded (I wasn't willing to allocate enough RAM to my VM to run APB without crashing after an hour, but it runs so it's on this list.)
Works (with some serious bugs)
- Fable III (I've been experiencing super-low framerates, and a problem where my textures/meshes flicker in and out of sight continuously. Sometimes if I stand still enough, they settle down for a few seconds, but then it comes back afterwards. Unplayable, but it launches.)
- Fallout 3 (Some people have gotten Fallout 3 to run, but my machine's processor speed does not meet the minimum, so it crashes outside of Vault 101.)
- Mass Effect 2 (I've actually been playing this for a while. In all honesty, it's playable and runs well, but there's a shader issue which causes actors and some objects to have random dark (or light, as it changes with the lighting) stripes across them. Distracting, but hey, the game runs. Hopefully this will be resolved in the future. I found that tweaking Coalesced.ini (with 3rd party programs, not Notepad, or else the game will refuse to launch!) has helped to make the stripes somewhat less noticeable. Note the 'somewhat'.)
- Risen (I have this weird issue where I can sometimes see the shapes of things, but everything is in black and white. Shapes are merged together because of it, and it's unplayable. Ever used the Threshold effect on Photoshop, but moved the slider way too far to the right? It looks like that.)
- Gothic 3 (It runs, and fast, but within the first 10 minutes it crashed on me. Also, some of the buildings/landscape flicker like a dying lightbulb when you look up.)
Won't Run (No matter what I've tried!)
- Lost Planet 2 (Doesn't even start, even though I tried the solutions used in the Windows 7 versions).
- (I can't remember anymore than that, I've removed most of them!)
Potentially Could Run (I possess the copies, but have not tested them)
- Vampire: The Masquerade, Bloodlines (Requirements are really low; it ran well on my old Acer, so it ought to run well in Parallels.)
- Neverwinter Nights 2 (I own a copy, but I have yet to test it. I think there's a native version available anyway.)
- The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind GOTY (Have yet to test it, but it's quite old and I see no reason it shouldn't run.)
- Fable: The Lost Chapters (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Sacred 2: Gold Edition (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet. The disk space requirement is ridiculous.)
- The Witcher (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Trine (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet. I think there's a native version as well.)
- Starwars Battlefront II (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Lineage II (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Aion (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Borderlands (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet. I also think there is a native version now, or something.)
- Hunted: The Demon's Forge (Own a copy, haven't tested it enough to draw any conclusions.)
- Two Worlds II (Own a copy, haven't tested it yet.)
- Mass Effect (Okay, so I don't own Mass Effect yet; but I'm picking up a copy soon and will be testing it.)
- The Witcher II (I don't own this either, but I'm borrowing a friend's copy tomorrow.)
I just thought I should share my findings, since they might help someone.
At the moment, I'm mostly looking for help on fixing the Mass Effect 2 issue. If anyone else has been experiencing the same issue, they should surely know what I mean. And if anyone has any solutions or workarounds, please let me know! (I read somewhere that they were preparing a Mac release for Mass Effect 2, but I'm not sure if it's true. One can only hope!)
In that case, I feel a bit more confident about going out to buy a copy of Mass Effect 1!