Say Uncle, Say Uncle: MacTech Video Shows That Parallels Beats The Competition In Gaming
March 11th, 2010

Yesterday MacTech published a Youtube video showing Parallels Desktop 5 whooping VMWare Fusion 3 in gaming.  They tested games such as Firefly Forest, Canyon Flight and Deep Freeze just to name a few.  Now I can game more on my Mac with Parallels.  The graphics are way better on Parallels Desktop and gaming is smoother.  After watching the video of MacTech benchmarking Parallels Desktop to Fusion, I realized that if I play games on Fusion, that I would be missing half of the graphics.  So now in combination with Valve and Parallels Desktop, I can game more.  Watch this MacTech video benchmark test comparing Parallels Desktop 5 and Fusion 3:

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  • bored
    So parallels is better then vmware fusion in the fact that it still has 100% unplayable frame rates and gameplay? A little choppy? I can count the frames per second on both sides... This is one of the most useless benchmarks I've ever seen, neither of them are usable. Compare parallels to a windows desktop, and then you'll be able to see all the visual failures that are actually there. It's useless comparing which one renders correctly when you don't actually show what rendering correctly is...
  • Fridgemusa
    Why the hell would you want to run Futuremark on a Virtual Machine anyway? If you want to get direct access to your hardware just dual boot with Windows because you can do that now on a mac :) Trying to run DirectX games on an emulated environment on an operating system that uses OpenGL is really gonna slow things down unnecessarily!
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