I'm hosting WindowsXP SP2 on an 2G iMac and have so far been unable to run Ubisoft's Chessmaster 10th edition game on Parallels b6. It installs fine, I've run the updater to 1.03, and the app launches. I elect to use only 2D models (not the more computationally expensive 3D) and can create a new player, but then the screen remains a large black rectangle. I hear a single sound effect from the game and the Task Manager shows that the program is responding, but no amount of clicking seems to do anything. During installation DirectX 9.0 was installed. Does anyone have suggestions for things that might help to get this running? I haven't written the company yet as I suspect they're not very interested in trying to tech support their PC product on a virtualized Mac. BTW: the game works properly under BootCamp on the same machine. TIA
faq time.. http://www.parallels.com/en/support/faq/ Which graphic applications can run inside a Parallels Workstation 2.1 virtual machine? Parallels Workstation virtualizes VGA and SVGA with VESA 3.0 support video card. This allows you to run any 2D graphic application inside guest OS. Direct3D support is in scope for future versions of Parallels Workstation. Byron
