Following up on last month’s Virtualization Benchmarks, MacTech today released a detailed study of gaming under virtualization with Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. Using 20 of the most popular PC-only games on the market –- including Transformers: War of Cybertron, Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars, and Batman Arkham Asylum –- MacTech used frames per second measurements to determine playability.
“Of the 20 games we tested, about three quarters of the games played well (meaning a playability score of 7 or more). A quarter of the games played so well you forgot you were in virtualization. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is.”
Below are favorable some quotes from MacTech:
Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars – “The game played absolutely flawlessly.”
Transformers: War for Cybertron – “Looked perfect. Played impeccably.”
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion – “Overall, very solid gameplay. The frame rate was more consistent than on an Xbox 360.”
Empire: Total War – “Worked perfectly.”
For more reviews, check out the full article here.
One of the many benefits of Parallels Desktop is playing PC games on your Mac. Parallels offers the fastest performance for running your games and applications side by side. With the superior 3D graphics and support for Surround Sound 5.1, Parallels delivers an immersive environment for gaming and more!
Every Friday on the Parallels Consumer Tech blog we announce a contest where you can enter via our twitter and then we’ll give away prizes at the end of the day. This week we thought we’d include all our readers over here, too!
Starting now, if you are one of the first 25 people to tweet to @ParallelsMac about what your favorite game to play in Parallels is and include #ParallelsFridays in your tweet, you will have a chance to win a Parallels Recommended game of your choice!
Parallels Recommended titles (a few shown above) have been tested by Parallels for optimal performance. See all the titles here.
Dave was kind enough to upload them to Youtube to be shared with the world. We’ve been getting a lot of positive mentions about Parallels 6 being great with gaming, so we’re happy to share these demo vids to really show off how smoothly games run.
Crysis
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Half Life 2: Lost Coast
Check out all the Parallels Desktop 6 gaming videos from the Ars Technica review on their Youtube channel.
The company Moject has found the technology for our inner gamer. One of the biggest drawbacks to gaming on an iPhone or any phone is the size of the screen. By using Moject (or Motion Projection) Technology, you change the size of your gaming screen through projecting a full size image on your wall using the iPhone’s pico projector.
Now you can game anywhere! From the waiting room at your family doctor’s office to the back of that bald guy’s head standing in front of you in the hot-dog stand line, you can with through projection.
Of course this technology is currently in the experimental stages, but the company plans to go beyond the iPhone by enabling other mobile phones, controllers, game consoles, and portable media players to to allow you to play. It may not be 100% polished, but Moject Tech for the iPhone could be groundbreaking for cell-phone gaming. [via Moject.com]
All of you baldies out there, just be aware that while you may be missing your hair, that you are being a productive member of society by providing us gamers a platform for gaming. Thank you for not using Rogaine.
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:
