Enabling DirectX and Vista's games

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac' started by Stevamundo, Jun 9, 2007.

  1. Stevamundo

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    Ever since I enabled DirectX from my Vista's VM, the games just won't open except for Chess Titans and Inkball.

    The error messages were the same, something like A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
     
  2. dkp

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    Times like this I wish I knew how to enable debug mode in Parallels. It would be great to get meaningful error messages instead of Microsoft's honey-sweet non-threatening have a nice day error - excuse me, disappointment messages.

    hey - while I'm thinking about it, how is your Morse code stuff working with PD3 and Fusion Beta 4? I haven't had any free time to explore the leads you put me in touch with yet but hope to get back to it soon.
     
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  3. Stevamundo

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    Dennis, because Microsoft is so pissy with their activation keys, I had to dump one of the programs. Because Fusion is still a beta and Parallels is not I choose Parallels. So I don't know how Fusion 4 works with the Morse code.

    I guess I could in install 4 and install XP and run it for 3 weeks until I need to put my activation key in.
     
  4. PuppyPR

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    Neither Parallels 3.0 nor VMWare Fusion Beta 4 supports Direct X 9 drivers for Vista,

    People, neither Parallels 3.0 nor VMWare Fusion Beta 4 supports Direct X 9 drivers for Vista, but both of them support for XP the Direct X 8 drivers. Although Parallels supports Coherence for Vista and Fusion doesn't have support for Unity (Coherence) on Vista.
     
  5. dkp

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    Are you the only one in the world that cares about vista? I sure don't.
     
  6. Stevamundo

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    I have to admit that Vista is a pain in the butt.

    Leopard HAS to be BETTER than that crap.
     
  7. Stevamundo

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    So, what does this mean for most of Vista's games are unable to open while DirectX is enabled?
     
  8. dippyskoodlez

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    hell, right now theres really nothing even wrong with tiger. ;)

    The only reason most people are going to want vista is because microsoft will inevitably giving XP the axe.
     
  9. dkp

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    This recent post brings up an interesting issue regarding graphics support:
    http://forum.parallels.com/thread12563.html

    The Fusion people have identified problems with Intel drivers in the MBP and Mac Mini systems that prevents proper graphics support. I wonder if Parallels has worked around it, or of some of the problems people are having is related to this driver issue.
     

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