I installed AOM (Age of Mythology) just fine, but when it came time to play, AOM said it didn't support my video card. I was under the impression Parallels would emulate everything I need. Is this not true? If not, would Boot Camp do the job?
Sadly thats one of the probs with parallels that we the consumers were not warned about prior to our purchases... none of the retailer catalogs mention this issue, nor does the main page for the program. I am in the same boat as you and can not get even the oldest of games to run in Parallels. There is AOM for OSX, which runs great on both my Mac Pro and MDD- however like most (all?) mac games, don't expect it to be able to multiplay with PCs at/on LANs... With intel macs you can *not* run anything not OSX native due to a lack of classic support. The PPC emulators are all either too slow or too instable (think sheepshaver) to be anywhere close to being practical for more recent titles that haven't seen OSX patches... part of why I wanted to be able to run windows on my intel mac was so I could run the PC versions of all the older mac games that never saw OSX releases... plus all the games that never saw mac ports at all (think Tiberian Sun, Red Alert2 etc). The "Parallels does not work with 3d games" party line that Parallel's devs are feeding us is most misleading because this is not an issue restricted to things that are 3d- even old 2d games have the same issues. Like I said, retailers don't mention this problem in their catalogs/websites, nor on the main parallels page (I had to really dig to find out it was a problem, and that was too late when I had already been troubleshooting the purchased product). Too bad I couldn't easily find this support board BEFORE I went and bought the product (I found it via googling for the problems I have been having with parallels). Bootcamp meets your gaming needs flawlessly, BUT (again without warning to the consumers) there is an issue with activation if you've activated XP in your Parallels VM- which brings you to an ethical paradox. -You paid for a legal license for XP, yet you can not use it after using it on a Parallels VM without violating M$'s EOA. so do you; 1- violate M$'s EOA by cracking XP in bootcamp to get past activation (after all, you aren't using your VM installation...)? 2- "clone" your VM HD to the bootcamp partician (again, not something that M$ would be happy with)? 3- M$'s EOA allows you to reuse a license (you'll have to talk to their customer service) if your machine dies and you replace it with a box that does not come with a copy of windows (this is actually in their EOA but few people actually read these things)... but since a VM isn't a piece of hardware to "fail" I am not sure if moving to bootcamp would qualifiy, M$ certainly thinks it doesn't... you could tell a lil white lie but, it becomes an ethical and legal problem potentially given the M$ EOA wording (note I am not advocating any of these 3 possible work arounds...).
