Running World of Warcraft Classic

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop on a Mac with Apple silicon' started by DanielG61, Nov 21, 2025.

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  1. DanielG61

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    I have MacBook Pro with M1 chip and 16Gb of RAM.
    I just wanted to test if I can run Windows 11 in Parallels and play World of Warcraft. Battle.net & the game itself installs just fine. But when trying to run the game... initial intro video was fine, but as soon as this finished the whole screen started flashing black & white. It looks as if the game keeps restarting itself constantly and I have to hit Alt+F4 to stop the flicker. Nothing ever renders. I tried adding the `d3d11` flag to the game startup, but that does not help either. Parallels is optimized for gaming. I boosted up CPUs and RAM. Nothing helps.
    Has any1 had any luck with this setup?
     
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    Turns out even simpler games like Age of Empires DE complains about the system not meeting "minimum requirements" :shrug:
     
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    I checked some stuff and all looks fine... but pretty much every game complains
     

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    Ey hello Daniel, same happening here for me. I tried World of Warcraft classic and retail. Im on a Mac mini M4. I tried everything I could but nothing works. Parallels support controlled my pc remotely and the tech guy told me it may be due to some "compatibility error" and he scalated my ticket. This was yesterday...

    Did you find any workaround?
     

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