Hello I am a current user of the latest Parallels 2.0 build (3188) and recently downloaded the 3.0 release today since my USB devices (Evoluent verticle mouse, Apple BlueTooth keyboard and 3D Connexion Space Traveller mouse for 3D CAD) have never relly worked properly through Win XP on my MacBook (2.0 GH 2GB RAM). After installing the 3.0 build the grahics window inside my Solid Edge application displays gibberish. The menu and side bar area of the app seems fine but the main window is useless. I restarted the application, retarted Windows, followed the Parallels reinstalation process posted by user Spectre titled "If something Goes Wrong with Parallels on the Mac Side" but nothing will work. Then I decided to unisintall 3.0 to revert to the previous 2.0 Build. I saved my XP VM images before upgrading to 3.0 and replaced updated images with the old 2.0 ones in appropriate folder. I resintalled the 2.0 Build 3188 (I had saved the 2.0 3188 disk image on my hard drive) and now when I reintsall 3188 it thinks that 3.0 is still installed and want to conveert my old XP VM image to 3.0. Now I am totally screwed and really don't know what to do. In summary: USB devices don't seem to work properly on 2.0 build 3188. I cant turn back to 2.0 biuld 3188 for some reason 3.0 has messed up the graphics on the only Windows app that I use very day for work. Please help...
similar problem with SolidWorks 2005 While the OpenGL graphics do display eventually, the speed is about 10000x slower than it was. I was hoping that they improved the performance with the new version, not completely destroy it. Now I really need to get back to the old version that worked. I boot from a BootCamp partition so that makes things more complicated I am sure. I should have searched the forums before I installed.
Hi Greg. I posted the same issue again in a different section of the Parallels forum since I wasn't getting any feedback on the post you found. Feel free to read some users feedback on that thread: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?p=64967#post64967 So you know I have had no luck fixing Parallels but have had pretty good success with VMWare Fusion Beta (freed download at the moment). It seems to handle my USB devices better (my 3D Space Traveler is working finally!) and may be a more stable VM solution as the company has been doing OS vitualitation in the Unix and Windows world for over decade. Mind you it is still a Beta so we shall see. Out of curiosity why are you running Solid Works on a Mac? I thought I was the only crazy one to try it CAD on a Mac Would be happy to hear your thoughts. Ian
