Parallels Working On 3D Acceleration
Parallels spokesman Ben Roudolph has revealed that Parallels is working to support 3D acceleration in an upcoming release of the company's flagship Mac product, Parallels Desktop for Mac.
The news comes as Microsoft has announced plans to cease development of a univeral-binary version of VirtualPC for Mac and VMWare is showing off a beta of their virtualization soluation. Both VirtualPC and VMWare to date do not offer full 3D acceleration. However, recent announcements by TransGaming and CodeWeavers, both of which promise to allow more games to run well natively in Mac OS X (albeit via different methods), has stepped up competition in the Mac gaming realm.
What's more, Parallels Desktop for Mac will see "fast 3D graphics support," presumably to help cater to gamers who want to run Windows games without having to reboot their machine using Boot Camp and a separate Windows partition. --via MacWorld
The news comes as Microsoft has announced plans to cease development of a univeral-binary version of VirtualPC for Mac and VMWare is showing off a beta of their virtualization soluation. Both VirtualPC and VMWare to date do not offer full 3D acceleration. However, recent announcements by TransGaming and CodeWeavers, both of which promise to allow more games to run well natively in Mac OS X (albeit via different methods), has stepped up competition in the Mac gaming realm.
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72 months ago
Nice. I welcome anything that would get more people to make the Switch. If Parallels can get this to market, it would help Apple.
72 months ago
This would seriously kick ass.
I'm curious how they would acheive it though, would it be able to access the full (or at least partial) acceleration of the graphics card or be emulating a seperate one, sort of like Virtual PC did on the PPC platform but more powerful?
I'm curious how they would acheive it though, would it be able to access the full (or at least partial) acceleration of the graphics card or be emulating a seperate one, sort of like Virtual PC did on the PPC platform but more powerful?
72 months ago
Great news!
Even it's only limited due to shader issues I'd love to be able to play my older 3D games without rebooting. :D
Even it's only limited due to shader issues I'd love to be able to play my older 3D games without rebooting. :D
72 months ago
Forget games, think about CAD and 3D software!
Finally AutoCAD and Maya on a MacBook Pro, while being able to do the rest of your work in Mac apps.
Finally AutoCAD and Maya on a MacBook Pro, while being able to do the rest of your work in Mac apps.
72 months ago
Very Toasty indeed, bring on the games. However I do have an architect friend who needs AutoCAD on a Mac. So this is good news indeed.
72 months ago
Awesome news. Unless something drastic happens soon, native Mac games aren't in a good position right now :(
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