First time Parallels user. I just bought PD9 and installed Windows 8.1 Pro on my MBP Retina (late 2013 model). I installed Chrome and Firefox. Firefox and IE11 look great on the retina screen. Chrome has a lot of artifacts (pixelated? - not sure of the right term). I need Chrome to run certain applications that I demo for my job. I contacted Parallels Support, but they were not able to resolve the issue and said it was Chrome-specific. Has anyone else experienced this problem or, maybe more interestingly. not experienced this problem with the same configurations?
Chrome Artifacts PD9 + Win8.1 + MBP Retina 15in Late 2013
- Thread starter elmnoise
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Abdul@Parallels
Parallels Support
Hi Elmnoise,
Aside from the Retina support for some guest OS (like the version of Windows you are running), each individual application you have installed on Windows may be or may not be optimized for Retina. It only depends on this third party software manufacturer. It looks like the version of Chrome you are running is not Retina optimized and Parallels Desktop for Mac cannot make this kind of changes to third party apps running in a virtual machine. Thanks for your understanding.
Thanks,
Abdul
Aside from the Retina support for some guest OS (like the version of Windows you are running), each individual application you have installed on Windows may be or may not be optimized for Retina. It only depends on this third party software manufacturer. It looks like the version of Chrome you are running is not Retina optimized and Parallels Desktop for Mac cannot make this kind of changes to third party apps running in a virtual machine. Thanks for your understanding.
Thanks,
Abdul
I found a solution that worked for me, so I'm posting this for anybody that has a similar issue. Create a shortcut to Chrome, then right-click on it and go to Properties then to Compatibility. Check the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings". Now Chrome looks right on my Retina display.
Good day,
Actually having exactly the same issue with the same MBP model and same PD version.
I have checked "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and problem with huge Chrome pixels has disappeared. But now all chrome content look very small that I can barely see it.
I have a friend with PC running on Win8.1. On his machine Chrome scales with 2880x1800 correctly. So I think it is parallels specific problem, not Chrome.
elmnoise, can you please share you screen resolution settings in Win8.1? I am using native MBP resolution 2880х1800 in Win8.1 with extra large(+200%) setting for item display.
Thanks in advance.
Actually having exactly the same issue with the same MBP model and same PD version.
I have checked "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and problem with huge Chrome pixels has disappeared. But now all chrome content look very small that I can barely see it.
I have a friend with PC running on Win8.1. On his machine Chrome scales with 2880x1800 correctly. So I think it is parallels specific problem, not Chrome.
elmnoise, can you please share you screen resolution settings in Win8.1? I am using native MBP resolution 2880х1800 in Win8.1 with extra large(+200%) setting for item display.
Thanks in advance.