HUGE PROBLEMS Parallels 8 and Windows!!!!!!

[marksteudel]

With Windows XP. once I unchecked (under video) "Use full resolution with Retina Display" all was back to normal again, as has been stated here.

So, I guess this means that with XP there is no way to take advantage of the Retina display. I was hoping--and tried to do this--that changing the resolution in Windows XP from within Windows (right click desktop, go to Settings, video, etc.) with Retina display enabled would let me get the Retina-like resolution. But I cannot make XP maintain the lower resolutions.

I don't have Windows 7, and using the Windows 8 preview Boot Camp VM in Parallels 8 there are no display problems.

Like another forum member here, I use Windows mainly for Quicken (2011). I will have to upgrade to Quicken 2013 when it comes out to get the tax projection data for 2012, and was planning to upgrade to Windows 8 at the same time, but from what I have seen of W8 I don't think I'm going to want to use it--it's like a cross between the old Windows and an iPad, without the good features of either. The absence of a Start button really drives me nuts. There is a third party (free) program that adds a Start button. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work very well, and I uninstalled it.

This worked for me, no problems now!

 

[sneadm]

Same issues in iMac

This should not have been released to the public yet.

Using new Mac Book Pro Retina with Windows 7 VM

Coherence mode only works for Windows and Windows Office apps. Everything else is useless (only get the top left of the screen)

Dual display Full Screen mode is also buggy. Can't move application between windows.

Not Cool, I use this Windows environment for work....

Nate

I have similar issues with iMac and W7. Quicken and Quickbooks windows are fine until I go into Coherence and try to display them full screen on secondary monitor. If I go full screen on the primary, they are fine, when I drag them to the secondary they are fine until I hit maximize, then they disappear. Just barely visible flicker on the edge when they open, but no part of the screen. Have to turn off coherence to get back to them.

 

[JesperV]

Brand new super charged macbook pro, retina display + external thunderbolt, parallels 8 and win 8 and ready to rock and roll... But... It is more or less useless. While some fonts have normal sizes others appear to be down-scaled and others up-scaled and all within the same programs. Quite annoying and leaves the setup more or less useless. I mostly use parallels for running MS Offics apps (Sharepoint, Visio, Project) and now have to fall back to my previous gen macbook with Parallels 7 and win 7. Very annoying.

Does anybody have a solution for the Parallels 8/Win 8 setup? There doesn't seem to be the display options that have been mentioned for win 7 and xp.

 

[serv]

JesperV,

In PD 8.0.18305 and above retina resolution option UI has changed. To disable retina set Configuration > Hardware > Video > Resolution to Scaled.

 

[JesperV]

JesperV,

In PD 8.0.18305 and above retina resolution option UI has changed. To disable retina set Configuration > Hardware > Video > Resolution to Scaled.

Excellent - that did the job! Thanks!

In coherence mode my windows applications (Office) does appear somewhat less responsive on my new setup (macbook pro retina/parallels 8/win 8) than on my old setup (macbook pro previous gen/parallels 7/win 7). From a pure productivity point of view my old setup is far better than the new one and even provides a better rendering of text. But now that I've got the new setup I'm gonna use it - but I'm not overly exited. It's hard for me to say who to blame - some combination of Apple/Parallels/Microsoft.