Parallels Desktop for Mac computers with Apple silicon M3 chips

Some of you are lucky, for me the Parallels with the software I am using (Rhinoceros 8) is absolutely not functionning.
If I had knew before, I would have bought a Windows laptop, because results are awful. simply awful.
 
There is a demo version of CrossOver that you could try for free. I've not had much luck in general with CrossOver, but a few things have run on it really well that were not compatible with Parallels.
 
Hi all- I was using a Windows 11 VM with no known issues just last week. Now, today (when I really need it), I am unable to use the trackpad or keyboard in my Windows VM. Mouse/keyboard are fine natively on the Mac and in a Kali Linux VM.
So far I've checked to make sure that Parallels Desktop and the Parallels tools have full disk access (they do) and played with the keyboard/mouse game settings (I'm not looking to game on here, it's for work). I've also reinstalled the tools several times.
The Mac is an M3 MacBook Pro running OSX Sonoma (14.6.1). I really need to get this running so any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Hi.
Can I use Win10 on Mac Pro M3 chip?
If I install Win10 amd installation failed.
Maybe I should use old versions Parallels? Unfortunately Win11 not supported applications which I use for work
 
You have to install the ARM version of Windows. I am not sure if they still make a Windows 10 ARM version.

Windows 11 is pretty much Windows 10 with a few added features. It has compatibility mode to even run many apps from Windows 8, 7 and even 3.1.

I suspect the application that you can't run requires an Intel chip. Windows ARM runs many Windows Intel apps using emulation, but it is not perfect and does not run every app. Some apps (like Microsoft Flight Simulator) give an error that your CPU is not supported, other apps simply don't run.
 
Any reported issues with M3 Ultra chips? I can run 3DS Max on Win 11 Parallels on my 2019 MacPro just fine, can't really render with it modeling is just fine and the interface is good. On the MacStudio with M3 Ultra however 3DS Max is unusable, very laggy. I've changed the VM so it uses more cores and has extra GPU ram etc but it doesn't make any difference.
 
Ok, I solved this. I just needed to change the viewport driver in 3DSMax from the default of Nitrous Software to Nitrous Direct3D 11 (Recommended) and restart Max. Totally useable now for modeling etc, wouldn't render in it but for what I need it's just fine. Figured I would leave this here for anyone else with the same issue.
 
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