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Parallels and games?

Will parallels play games good? Like Madden 06 and such?...

MBP 15" 2.0, 2 gigs ram 100 gig hard drive, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jul 15, 2006 5:04 PM

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Posted on Jul 15, 2006 5:08 PM

Probably not. The host operating system will be using up most of the resources you need to play games.
You'd be far better off running Windows with Boot Camp is you want to play games.
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Jul 15, 2006 11:49 PM in response to pghphotoguy

Unless when you're referring to game such as Super Mario Brothers and other such 2D games, then i'm afraid you will not have much luck with Parallels.

Parallels provide a driver with 8mb of video RAM and a 2D graphics accelerator. Making it practically impossible to play games on.

Boot Camp is a much better solution, as it uses to full specifications of your computer to run Windows nativley. Boot Camp's drivers take advantage of the full video RAM (128/256mb with Macbook Pro). Thus allowing you to play practically any game you wish.

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