I am having an issue with Quicken 2014 running on a Windows 8 VM hosted by Parallels 9 on Mavericks. For a while, the text size was acting up, but with a little fiddling (and potentially an update from Intuit), I was able to resolve most of the text size issues. The only remnant that really bugs me is that the menus show up twice, like so: Has anyone ever experienced a similar issue, and if so, how did you fix? Or do we think this is something on Intuit's end that they need to resolve?
I am having the same problem but no success yet. I am using a 13" Mac Pro Retina with Windows 7/Parallel's 9
I had the same problems with running Quicken 2014 Premier on a retina display machine. I ponied up the $20 to talk with tech support - and they got it work great - in fact their solution also helped with all my displays on the Windows side. Their solution: We did changed the Settings of the Video in the configuration menu of the Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine > Configure > Hardware > Video > we did turned off the 'Enable Vertical Synchronization' option. Then I pulled up DPI setting (Start menu - search - DPI) and changed it to 100% and everything falls into place - I am so glad I got the tech support rather than simply returning Quicken!
Thank you for your help. I tried this without any success. I first tried it in Best for Retina which I received the same results as I did in this mode before. I then chose scaled with the DPI 100% and EVS off. Unfortunately every time I get a resolution that would suffice for now it returns to the old one when the VM is restarted.
No luck on the Tech Support solution suggested above... first off, my DPI continually resets to 199% in the Control Panel. I turned off the EVS option and made sure my display was set to "Best for Retina".
Here is what seems to be working for me right now although I needed to scale the registers a bit but otherwise looks pretty good. I am running a 2013 MacPro Retina with 8 G of Memory and 512 SSD Drive, Parallel's 9, Window's 7, and Quicken for Home and Business 2014. Here are the settings I am using at present that are the best I have achieved so far. Parallels's Desktop: Virtual Machine>Configure>Hardware>Video 1. Video Memory = 512 2. 3D Acceleration = Direct X9 3. Vertical Sync = Unchecked 4. Resolution = Scaled Windows 7 1. Windows>Start>Control Panel>Change>Adjust Screen Resolution = 1280 x800 2. From the same screen click "Make Text Items Larger or Smaller" = 100%
You don't mind how blurry it is? To me, the "scaled" setting always has incredibly large icons and incredibly blurry text.
I have had a similar experience with Quicken Deluxe 2014 -- double menu icons at the top, plus account register fonts that are proportionately much larger than fonts in other panes. (Agmanbrad posted on this last June in the General Questions forum.) I'm running Windows 8.1 in Parallels 10.0.2 (27712) on a Macbook Pro with Retina display running Mavericks (10.9.5). I have not had this problem with Quicken Deluxe 2014 on an old PC running Windows XP. All the panes and the menu bar use the same font size. So, following the tech support solution reported by Rev Peter, I have found the change in Windows display settings (“dpi”) to be individually effective, whereas disabling vertical synchronization in Parallels (the virtual machine) was without additional effect, and disabling the Retina display in favor of scaling actually made the text unacceptably blurry, as BryceR also noted. It was an interesting experiment: in Windows, at the recommended screen resolution of 2880x1564, the default size of all items was set to “extra large - 200%”, and produced the menu doubling. By setting this one notch lower, to 150%, most of the menu doubling disappeared and the account register font was tolerably large and the other pane fonts were tolerably small, i.e., still readable. I first went to 100%, as suggested in the Rev Peter post, but everything was much too small to read, although the doubling also completely disappeared. Keep in mind: this is a compromise, as it still does not fix the disproportion between screen fonts in Quicken on Parallels. But it does make it tolerable, enough to enable me to migrate my work with Quicken from the PC to the Mac.
