While we had noticed that DirectX 12 wasn’t possible, the team has confirmed that this is in the works. But while this was impressive, we reached out to Dmitry Geynisman, Product Manager at Parallels to see what the plans were for the future in gaming for Parallels Desktop on Apple Silicon. The only attribute stopping me from playing more games was storage.
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With the games running this well, I decided to go further in my testing with the M1 Pro. This was also the only time where I could hear the fans, while more graphically intensive games wouldn't summon them, so it could be a glitch with Parallels for the fans. While it would struggle with the Mac mini with graphical glitches everywhere, here there was no issue. While it would take longer than usual when transitioning from an indoor area to the outside, everything felt smooth in a 1440p resolution with high settings.Ĭrash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy was another surprise.
PARALLELS FOR MAC NETWORK SETTINGS FULL
While Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes would run at 40 FPS on medium settings with the M1 Mac mini, it was full speed on high settings here. I tried the same settings with each game as before, in a resolution of 1440x900 at medium settings, and it resulted in full speed across the board. Resident Evil 3 is running worse this time, with more graphical issues, making it unplayable, regardless of everything in graphic settings on ‘low’ or ‘off’. Trying to load up Halo Infinite through the Xbox app also refused because of the same reason.
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This is a graphics engine, originally created by Microsoft, that allows developers to run their games on certain machines.
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Since our testing in August, Windows 11 has been released, alongside an ARM version, so we installed Steam, Epic Games, Rockstar Launcher, and the Xbox app to see how these would run on the MacBook Pro.Īgain, DOOM and Dragon Ball FighterZ refused to work, mainly due to the DirectX framework they’re built on. You may then close the laptop.With Parallels Desktop 17 fully compatible with M1, this means that we can run certain apps on Windows, within the app to see how games can run. Workaround is to open the laptop, move VM back to Retina screen, access the Configure panel, choose the third Retina option "Scaled", move VM window back to conventional external monitor. So I cannot find a way to return to conventional scaling within the VM. While on the non-Retina screen, the scaling options disappear. Notice how the Apple logo on the menu bar is smaller than the Apple logo on the host Mac, and the menu labels too are shrunken. The monitor is a plain full-HD Acer brand monitor, non-Retina. See the following screen shot of part of screen when running Parallels 12.0.1 on an external monitor. So text and graphics are squished with too few pixels to represent their true detail. I have encountered a bug where after adjusting for Retina, when using the VM on an external monitor (not Retina) the resulting image is shrunken, not re-scaled for non-Retina. Notice how the Finder window becomes zoomed-out, showing much more content but shrunken. So you get the most usable visual space but at the price of making everything tiny and harder-to-see.
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The last shot is if you want to use every physical pixel as a logical pixel in the display, rather than take advantage of Retina smoothing. You will see the icons in the next image are much more detailed than seen above, and the edges of fonts and lines are much more fine than seen above. Zoom into these images to see the difference at the pixel-level. This next shot shows the new Retina support. The first was the only behavior in the previous versions without Retina support. Here are screen shots of the three new settings. Previous versions of Parallels, as well as the competitors VMware Fusion and Oracle VirtualBox, provided some support for high-resolution resolutions in VMs of other OSes such as Windows & Linux, but none did so for macOS-as-guest VMs. Retina resolution support for OS X virtual machines Per this page, Parallels Desktop 12 for Mac: Updates Summary… This new version released 2016-08 is the first to support Retina resolution within a macOS VM. Yes, now in Parallels Desktop for Mac version 12.