I have several casual games (such as Bejeweled, Zuma, Poppit, etc.) which I have paid for. However, these games use TryMedia's ActiveMark DRM copy protection. When you launch the game, the DRM prevents it from running under Parallels with the following error: This application cannot run with an active debugger in memory. Please unload the debugger and restart the application. I am not running any sort of debugger. It appears that something about Parallels triggers the DRM's anti-debugger defense. Similar non-DRM'ed games run fine under Parallels, as these games are not graphic intensive, so I'm fairly confident that these games would perform acceptably if they would run. I would really like to be able to play the games that I own under Parallels, without having to reboot into Boot Camp. Is this a known Parallels issue that's being worked on? Is there anything I can do with my setup to get it to work? Details: Parallels build 3188 (running Windows XP SP2) on Mac OS X 10.4.9 on a MacBook with 2GB RAM. Thanks, -Mike
have you tried http://www.trymedia.com/corporate/contact_us.shtml what do they say? are you using a parallels beta? please state versions of OSes parallels and so on Hugh W
Don't purchase software from them in the future that's DRM'd? That's what I've come to decide. It just causes hassles for me, doesn't seem to keep the price down - so I buy only products that I can move around without restriction.